ISS Annual Meeting (2018) – Program

Welcome to the Third Annual Meeting of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures. We are pleased to have you join us in helping us set up, model and participate in honest, high-level, challenging conversation about things that matter. The Meeting is organized as a seminar around a compelling theme. All attendees are invited and expected to participate.

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Seminar Theme: INTERPRETERS

We are complexly situated—across and within different domains and contexts–in globalized postmodernity, yet within the boundaries of the modern nation state. Through what politics and by what psycho-socio-logics and with what consequences are we in such situations today informed, managed, manipulated, oriented? Who are the authorized/appointed interpreters in/of this situation?

We shall make use of Zygmunt Bauman’s Legislators and Interpreters as common facilitating reader.

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Collaborative Research Project: SCRIPTURALIZING HERE AND THERE

This year we inaugurate our ongoing signature collaborative research project. It is designed to facilitate running commentary on and analysis of fraught human-making—across cultures and time—in terms of scriptural politics, formations, practices and play, dynamics, phenomena. Conceptualized as project in the politics of language, it holds the promise of facilitating needed transgressive and transformative thinking and practices for our times. All attendees are expected to participate in the launch. All members will be able to contribute on an ongoing basis to the project

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

 

THURSDAY EVENING       

8:00 – 9:30pm                           Reception

 

FRIDAY

8:00 – 8:45am                          Breakfast (Foyer)

9:00 – 10:00am                         Opening Session (Sundance Room)

Welcome; Introductions; Orientation

Director’s Address
“THEY’RE RUINING THE GAME”:
(MIS)READERS OF THE NATION-STATE

Moderators: Timothy Sandoval & Susanne Scholz

 

10:15am – 12:15pm                  Seminar Session #1:

INTERPRETERS:
WHO ARE THEY? HOW/BY WHAT AUTHORITY/AGENCY ARE THEY CONSTRUCTED? WHAT ARE THEIR CONTEXTS/DOMAINS?

Moderator: Katrina Van Heest

12:15 – 1:30pm                          Lunch

1:30 – 3:30pm                          Seminar Session #2:

WHAT ARE THEIR PRACTICES, PERFORMANCES, RITUALS/RITES?

Moderator: Francisco Lozada

3:30 – 3:45 pm                          Break

3:45 – 5:45pm                           Seminar Session #3:

WHAT ARE THEIR INTERESTS, AGENDA, POLITICS? THE  CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OFFICES?

Moderator: Tat-siong Benny Liew

5:45 – 8:00pm                           Dinner on Your Own

 

Evening Session

8:00 – 9:30pm                           Special Session #4

EMBODIMENT: PERFORMANCE, INTERACTIONS & CONVERSATION

Moderator: Kimberleigh Jordan

 

SATURDAY

8:00am – 9:30am                      Breakfast (Foyer)

10:00am – 12:00noon                Special Session #5 (Sundance Room)

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT

INTRODUCTION & FIRST SESSION

Moderator: Leif Vaage

12:00 – 1:30pm                         Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm                         Special Session #6

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT

(CONTINUATION)

Moderator: Arthur Carter, Jr.

3:15 – 4:00pm                          Business Meeting

Moderator: Daniel Patte

4:00 – 6:00pm                           BREAK

6:00 – 7:15pm                           Plenary: Special Session:

INTERVIEW/CONVERSATION:

Tommy J. Curry, Texas A& M University, Philosophy, Africana Studies & V. L. Wimbush

 

7:30pm – 9:00pm                     CLOSING DINNER

Moderator: Timothy Sandoval