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

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 […]

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: […]

BURTON L MACK—A PERSONAL TRIBUTE

Burton L. Mack has passed from us. His life (1931-2022), like every life, was, over the passage of time, different aspects of different selves. I was privileged to know a few of the aspects of the selves of Burton Mack (beautifully complemented by the smart […]

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 […]