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Scriptures Everywhere

The Institute for Signifying Scriptures

What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.

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14 episodes

  1. Election Ether: Deference and the Politics of Listening 51:10
  2. Sources, Systems, and Confidence: Election and the Manufacture of Scriptures Everywhere 49:08
  3. Election and Chosenness 49:52
  4. Citizenship and Scripturalizing Anti-Blackness in the Americas 43:55
  5. Scriptural Pleasures: On Cruelty as Citizenship 42:34
  6. 3.1 None Like Us: Diasporic Desires and Demystifying Scriptures 54:44
  7. On Finishing a Book: Memory, Loss, and the Future 44:52
  8. Do you understand? Rethinking the grounds of scriptures 42:52
  9. Barracoon as Scriptural Locus 45:31
  10. Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon 47:05
  11. Reading Marronage: Reflecting on the Present and the Future of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures 1:07:24
  12. Reading Scriptures: Reflecting on the Formation of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures after 20 yearsThe Institute for Signifying Scriptures 56:44
  13. Reading Darkness: Reflecting on the African Americans and the Bible Conference After 25 Years 51:16
  14. ISS@20: Signifying on Scriptures 1:09:33