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A report is offered from a December 9-10, 2011 conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the history of Dutch painting. Topics of presentations given included artistic representations of natural disasters in prints and paintings, the social network of painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and the economic conditions of the Dutch art market.

The article presents a report from a May 29-30, 2015 conference in Berlin, Germany on the sociocultural influences of ancient naval power. Topics of presentations delivered included the naval power studies of researchers Alfred T. Mahan, Stansfield Turner, and Colin S. Gray, the depiction of Roman naval power in the book "Mare liberum" by Hugo Grotius, and the adoption of the Roman god of the sea Neptune by the Dutch navy and Dutch art of the 16th century.