6.0576 Conference: Traditions of Commentary (1/41)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 12 Mar 1993 14:56:45 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0576. Friday, 12 Mar 1993.
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 21:21:02 -0500 (EST)
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell)
Subject: Conference on TRADITIONS OF COMMENTARY
Announcing a Conference on
TRADITIONS OF COMMENTARY
University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, April 3, 1993
All sessions will be held in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 36th and Spruce
Streets, Philadelphia, PA. Admission is free.
PROGRAM
9:45 am Introduction
Matthew Santirocco, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 Ludo Rocher, University of Pennsylvania
"Layer Upon Layer: Sanskrit Commentary and Supercommentary"
11:00 Daniel Selden, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Lem(m)ata: Commentary as Cultural Production in the Hellenistic World"
12:00 David Stern, University of Pennsylvania
"Midrash and the Genre of Commentary"
1:00 pm Lunch
2:30 E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania
"The Rediscovery of the *Glossa ordinaria*"
3:30 Everett Rowson, University of Pennsylvania
"Philology on Vacation: Commentary and Parody in the Arabic Tradition"
4:30 James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
"The Once and Future Scholiast"
This conference is sponsered by the Humanities Council of the University of
Pennsylvania, with generous support provided by Dr. and Mrs. Gerald H.
Strauss in honor of Ms. Bernice Haas.