Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is Professor Emeritus, former Chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, and former Director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Professor DjeDje is author, editor, and compiler of several books, collections of essays,…
The 1st Annual Seminar of the ISS is organized around the topic “Meaning”—what it is; why and how and by whom it is constructed and represented; how it is communicated and represented; how it is communicated…
INSTITUTE FOR SIGNIFYING SCRIPTURES FIRST ANNUAL MEETING THE KENNEDY SCHOOL PORTLAND, OREGON FEBRUARY 18-20, 2016 The ISS announces and extends invitation to all interested and curious parties to its first Annual Meeting, organized as high-level…
The recent Huffington Post article (“Indian Tribunal Orders 2 Sisters Raped as Punishment for Brother’s Elopement,” August 28, 2015) about the rape-for-elopement punishment meted by an all-male village council in India was both disturbing and…