Iain Fenlon has been awarded a two-year research grant by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation to pursue a research project with the theme 'Crossing Boundaries, Defining States: Confession, Music and Territoriality in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (c.1500-1650)', in collaboration with Marie-Alexis Colin of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The project, which will begin in October 2014, runs in parallel with a six-year research project 'Themes of Conversion', funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and organised in collaboration with CRASSH,for which Iain is a Principal Investigator. The second workshop in the series 'Sound in the City', which is part of this project, will take place in the spring of 2015