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S3E2 Scriptural Pleasures: On Cruelty as Citizenship
In this episode, we move from Stephen Best's None Like Us (2018) to a kind of flip side of diasporic belonging, the violent practices that constitute citizenship. We focus our discussion on Cristina…
S3E1 3.1 None Like Us: Diasporic Desires and Demystifying Scriptures
In this first episode of our spring 2026 season, we speak live from the Institute for Signifying Scriptures Annual Meeting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We discuss the introduction to Stephen Best's None…
S2E4 On Finishing a Book: Memory, Loss, and the Future
In our final episode of the fall 2025 season, we discuss the role of memory, of how and why we try to forge a sacred past and communal memory, how gender matters to the dynamics of Barracoon as a…
S2E3 Do you understand? Rethinking the grounds of scriptures
In this episode, we discuss different forms of knowing and understanding, and how Hurston makes Kossula into scripture even as his stories depict for us strategies for navigating distinct, and…
S2E2 Barracoon as Scriptural Locus
In this second conversation about scriptures, memory, and Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon, we discuss the title of the book and what it tells us about the politics and emphases of scripturalizing…
S2E1 Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon
In this first episode of our fall 2025 season on memory, we gathered to discuss Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", which was written almost 100 years ago but only…
S1E4 Reading Marronage: Reflecting on the Present and the Future of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Arthur Carter, Dr. Rachel Beckley aka Rachel Schwaller, and Dr. Richard Newton discuss how the Institute for Signifying Scriptures…
S1E3 Reading Scriptures: Reflecting on the Formation of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures after 20 yearsThe Institute for Signifying Scriptures
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Lalruatkima, Dr. Robin Owens, and Dr. Katrina Van Heest discuss the early years of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures in the 2000s.…
S1E2 Reading Darkness: Reflecting on the African Americans and the Bible Conference After 25 Years
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew speaks with Dr. Grey Gundaker and Dr. Velma Love about the African Americans and the Bible conference after 25…
S1E1 ISS@20: Signifying on Scriptures
Recorded in 2023, our inaugural episode comes from HTI's Open Plaza Talks podcast. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego, talks to fellow…
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Scriptures Everywhere has published 10 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Society & Culture.
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