UPCOMING
ISS Annual Meeting 2024
Dear Friends,I am announcing a special ISS Annual Meeting, to be held April 11-13, 2024, in Atlanta. It will be a hybrid meeting, with the hope of making possible the broadest level of attendance and participation. A Planning Committee, charged to carry out the organization […]
THE GUMBÉ - ISS BLOG
New book advances ISS’s research agenda
Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the “play-element” […]
RESEARCH
Scripturalizing Here and There
The Politics of Meaning ——————— A collaborative project on discourse and power ISS is uniquely positioned to facilitate wide-ranging critical social-cultural analysis and commentary. As ongoing collaborative project, “Scripturalizing Here and There” is opportunity for such a compelling project for the times we share. (Focus […]