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ISS Brown Bag Lunch Discussion Series: Fall 2008
Next Session: Thursday, December 4
Quynh-hoa Nguyen
"Charity as Return: The Bible and Vietnamese Americans in Los Angeles"
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures facilitates research on the work we make scriptures do for us.
ISS fosters comparative collaborative multi-disciplinary research into the phenomena—rituals, practices, performances, material objects, visual representations, scripts, sounds, ideologies, power dynamics—found around the world but generally referred to in the freighted English shorthand as “scriptures.” The aim is to understand the text-ure-s of social formation, as they are woven around, beyond, and sometimes against texts.
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