Ivan Gaskell gave a paper on museum taxonomies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art think tank, “Reconsidering the American Wing.” His essay, “The Museum of Big Ideas,” has been published in Philosophy and Museums: Essays on the Philosophy of Museums, ed. Victoria S. Harrison, Anna Bergqvist, and Gary Kemp (Royal Institute of Philosophy: Supplement 79; Cambridge, October 2016)

In the last month, Peter N. Miller spoke about seventeenth-century European jewelers in India at the Third European Congress of Jewelry History in Barcelona; about archaeology as a Mediterranean inquiry at the Fourth Haifa Conference on Mediterranean Sea Research; on “Winckelmann between Peiresc and Goethe” at a Winckelmann birthday celebration at New York University; and attended a meeting of the Global Forum of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.

The Oxford Handbook to the Bible in England, c. 1520-1700, ed. Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith and Rachel Willie, (Oxford, 2015) to which Andew Morall contributed the essay, “Domestic Decoration and the Bible in the Early Modern Home,” has won the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Prize (Reference Works) awarded by the Council of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.