ISS in South Africa
ISS in South Africa The Institute for Signifying Scriptures was represented at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), which convened in August 2017 at the Castle of Good…
Reflections from ISS@Charlotte – Lalruatkima
Last year on November 8, while Americans queued at the polling booths to elect a new president, the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi interrupted the citizens of his country just getting around to call it a…
Reflection on ISS 2017 Annual Meeting – P. Kimberleigh Jordan
A note of self-contextualization: my entrance into the Wimbush world of transdisciplinarity occurred in the progenitor research project called “African Americans and the Bible.” In that project, I found the beginnings of my own scholarly…
Reflections on the Second Annual Meeting of the ISS – Alonzo Huntsman
The second annual conference of the ISS convened in Charlotte to focus on the notion of the state/nation, its construction and how ideas of citizenship and belonging are understood and enforced. The topic could not…