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Richard Rodriguez Keynote Address for the Institute for Signifying Scriptures Conference (video) Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Award-winning journalist Richard Rodriguez, one of America’s most important essayists, and author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002), gave a keynote address at the Institute for Signifying Scriptures' annual conference on October 17, 2009. The talk, titled, “The Gutenberg Nation”discussed the intersection of his personal life with some of the great vexing issues of America. About The Institute for Signifying Scriptures 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. About Claremont Graduate University Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio. Go to the Index...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
About The Institute for Signifying Scriptures
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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