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

ISS Annual Meeting 2024-Report

Marronage and Movement:  Twenty Years of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures From April 11 to 13, 2024, researchers and students gathered both in-person and online to discuss our seminar theme of “marronage,” to commemorate two foundational research initiatives, and to contemplate future directions for the […]

THE ABENG - ISS JOURNAL

The Abeng 2024-supplement 1

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 […]