American Bible: The Constitution as Sacred Text

Join us at a live in-person event at Judson Memorial Church at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, for a timely discussion on the role religion has played in shaping originalist thought, as well as alternative approaches to understanding the Constitution and our relationship to […]

From the director

Vincent L. Wimbush addresses important changes and updates for ISS in the year ahead.

TRIBUTE TO DANIEL PATTE

We have lost a giant among human beings, in the “field,” and in intellectual conversation and collaboration.

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ISS Annual Meeting 2024-Report

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 ISS as it enters a new decade

HTI/OP Podcast: The work of ISS and its 20th anniversary

In this episode of OP Talks, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo talks to fellow religion professor Dr. Vincent Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The organization’s upcoming annual conference in Atlanta—to be held April 11-13, 2024 […]

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” […]

WaPo Opinion: Originalism is bunk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/originalism-liberal-lawyers-supreme-court-trap/

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Conversations on Scripturalizing

Video recordings from two ISS-related events are now available for your viewing. Click on the images for more details. Symposium on Slavery and Dispossession The Carlos Museum@Emory University Sep 29-Oct 21, 2021 White Men’s Magic as Slavery: The Politics of Acquisition, Exhibition, and Scholarship “Masquerade: […]