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July 9, 2016

ISS Annual Meeting 2016 – Program

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 and maintained (and upended); and the ongoing issues and consequences […]

July 9, 2016

An Interview with Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at UCLA

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, and recordings, a few of which include Fiddling in West […]

July 9, 2016

First Annual Meeting

Built in 1915, the Kennedy School served as an elementary school for many years before being converted into a funky hotel by the McMenamin brothers, famous in Portland for their excellent beers and unusual venues. Today, the hotel front desk is the old Principal’s office. […]

July 9, 2016

Scripturalizing The Human A Transdiciplinary Collaborative Project

Scripturalizing The Human A Transdiciplinary Collaborative Project The SH collaborative research project excavates historical and contemporary attempts throughout the world to construct the human, using as illuminating analytic lenses various practices in the politics of language. The project is oriented to the overlapping domains—the somatic; […]

July 9, 2016

ISS First Annual Meeting – Opening Address and Director’s Report

February 19, 2016 by Vincent Wimbush “I wish [we] knew how it would feel to be free”: The Subjunctive Mood …in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with chance events, to evade its ponderous, awesome materiality… We must […]

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July 9, 2016

“Strange Fruit,” or How Does a Tree Mean?

Editor’s Note: The following text was presented by C. Travis Webb at the First Annual Meeting of ISS in Portland, OR. It was the framing statement for the discussion on Meaning: How Represented, Communicated? Video for the discussion can be found here, and a full audio record of the discussion will be available soon. Franz Kafka is […]

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July 9, 2016

The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions

The Countervailing Dynamics of Sanskritization Strategies and Vernacularizing Practices in Hindu Scriptural Traditions Barbara A. Holdrege, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara June 2016 In this essay I will interrogate the complex interplay between what Vincent Wimbush has characterized as the “enslaving” regimes of scriptural-ization and the “liberating” dynamics of scriptural-izing through […]

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July 9, 2016

Trust: Notes on Authority and Secular Scripturalizing

Trust: notes on authority and secular scripturalizing James S. Bielo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio bielojs@miamioh.edu Tom is an atheist. He is an atheist, but his preferred term of self-identification is “non-theist.” He prefers non-theist, but depending on the context, he will also answer to skeptic, freethinker, and secular humanist. […]

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July 10, 2016

Second Annual Meeting – January 26-28, 2017 – Charlotte, NC

Organized as a seminar, the 2017 Meeting will be focused on the Nation/State as major theme. Broadly construed to include geographically-extensive U.N.–recognized entities as well as non-extensive, non-U.N. recognized movements, regional and local bodies in the modern era, the seminar will be divided into sessions […]

July 12, 2016

Meaning: Who Formulates, Manages, Communicates it? Whence? Where Does it Come From?

Editor’s Note: The following text was presented by Lalruatkima at the First Annual Meeting of ISS in Portland, OR. It was the framing statement for the discussion on Meaning: Who? Whence? Video for the discussion can be found here, and a full audio record of the discussion will be available soon. In his analysis […]

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July 21, 2016

ISS – Portland – Part I: Introductions and Orientation

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July 21, 2016

ISS – Portland – Part II: Seminar Discussion “What is ‘Meaning’?”

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