SETH SANDERS'S "MARGINS OF WRITING" CONFERENCE starts at the end of next week. The University of Chicago Chronicle has an article on it.

Scholars to examine language, power it gains in evolution from spoken to written
By William Harms
News Office

The Oriental Institute is organizing a conference, �Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures: Unofficial Writing in the Ancient Near East and Beyond,� to be held in Breasted Hall Friday, Feb. 25, and Saturday, Feb. 26.

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I wonder if anyone will be blogging it.