March 7, 2025
This conference will adopt a "bottom-up" approach to explore how religion has played a role in the migratory trajectories, lived experience and imaginary of newcomers in the United States and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day.
February 10, 2025
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 […]
December 28, 2024
Vincent L. Wimbush addresses important changes and updates for ISS in the year ahead.
August 8, 2024
Off-Script is a monthly conversation for graduate students and scholars interested in the critical comparative study of scriptures.
May 27, 2024
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
February 19, 2023
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 […]
February 9, 2022
Vincent L. Wimbush, Scholar of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, will give a Zoom lecture on the study of religion, with Q&A to follow. This lecture is intended to account for the practices, dynamics, operations, and effects—including the patho-logics and politics […]
August 9, 2021
“Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities Through Black Flesh,” the exhibition, is open to all online. Click on the image/link to browse: http://pitts.emory.edu/masquerade This exhibition invites the viewer to consider how we produce and make use of “scriptures” understood broadly as cultural discourse and media. This means seeing scriptures […]
October 4, 2020
The Annual Meeting-2021 of the ISS will move to an online format. Our conversation at this meeting will focus on the “Constitution,” a theme that underscores much of the current cultural politics around the world. In order to ensure access to the meeting, we encourage […]
July 16, 2020
Registration for the #BlackScholarsMatter Symposium is now open. The symposium will be open to all, SBL members and colleagues in the wider guild. Please note that registration link is unique to a specific session and each is limited to 1000 registrations. To attend both sessions, […]
August 19, 2019
Due to distressing developments around the world, having to do with what is called the Corona Virus, the decision has been made to postpone the ISS 2020 Meeting, scheduled for April 16-18, in Toronto. This decision was made after considering the most recent developments and […]
August 22, 2018
Meeting Registration Must be a current ISS member to register. You can sign up here for your ISS membership (at any level). General Registration: $100 Register Here —– Click for ISS-AM 2019 program —– Seminar Text Seminar text: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences […]
September 24, 2017
Seminar Theme: Interpreters Springboard Text: Zygmunt Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters Special Guest: Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy, Africana Studies, Texas A & M University; Executive Director, Philosophy Born of Struggle See fascinating article on some of his experiences: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-s-Left-to-Defend-Tommy/240757 Inauguration of New Collaborative Research […]
July 10, 2016
Organized as a seminar, the 2017 Meeting will be focused on the Nation/State as major theme. Broadly construed to include geographically-extensive U.N.–recognized entities as well as non-extensive, non-U.N. recognized movements, regional and local bodies in the modern era, the seminar will be divided into sessions […]
July 9, 2016
Built in 1915, the Kennedy School served as an elementary school for many years before being converted into a funky hotel by the McMenamin brothers, famous in Portland for their excellent beers and unusual venues. Today, the hotel front desk is the old Principal’s office. […]