The American Handel Society’s Biennial American Handel Festival Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2016 April 6-9, 2017 Princeton University, Princeton NJ conference website: https://ahs2017.princeton.edu The American Handel Society invites submission of abstracts for papers on any topic connected with Handel’s life and music. We are pleased to announce that the Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture will be delivered by John Butt, who will also conduct the Princeton University Chamber Choir’s performance of the 1741 version of *Messiah.* Abstracts of no more than 500 words may be sent as an email attachment (Word doc or pdf) by *October 1, 2016* to the Program Chair, Robert Ketterer, robert-ketterer -at- uiowa.edu. _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: READ THE GUIDELINES prior to submitting a post: http://www.ams-net.org/announce.php TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to http://listserv.unl.edu and edit your subscription.