February 9, 2022

Upcoming Lecture

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”

“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 […]
August 22, 2018

Fourth Annual Meeting – February 21-23, 2019 – Memphis, TN

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

Third Annual Meeting – February 22-24, 2018 – Fort Worth, TX

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

Second Annual Meeting – January 26-28, 2017 – Charlotte, NC

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 […]