TRIBUTE TO DANIEL PATTE
We have lost a giant among human beings, in the “field,” and in intellectual conversation and collaboration.
ISS Annual Meeting 2024-Report
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…
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…
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…