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5000 Years of Comments

The Development of Commentary from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Age of Information August 8-9, 2018 Sponsored and hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies Organized by Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University) and Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University) About the conference Commentary on the written word is nearly as old as writing itself and has developed alongside scholarship, literature and the writing cultures in critical and influential ways. As an activity,… Read more