You are invited to join us for the 34th annual Carmichael-Walling Lectures at Abilene Christian University on Thursday, Nov. 12.
Dr. Vincent L. Wimbush of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures will give the lectures on the theme: Scriptures and Race.
4 p.m. CST – “Mystic Hieroglyphics of the Flesh”: Scripturalization as Racialization
7:30 p.m. CST – “Even the Bible Was Made Over to Suit Our Vivid Imagination”: Scripturalizing the Human
In two lectures and subsequent discussion, Wimbush will challenge the audience to look at “scriptures” not in terms of mere texts or the exegesis of such, but as a shorthand for a complex phenomenon involving social formation. Like all such phenomena, there is a mix of horrendous and not so horrendous effects and consequences, both historical and ongoing. The concept of scripturalization entails a type of violence being done, but we will address possibilities for disrupting the violence, if not altogether overcoming it, seeking a degree of agency in the process.
To clarify the importance of this theoretical and analytical work, we will draw on the history of Black people in the modern world in order to model alternatives to traditional scholarship in biblical studies and related fields, with implications for all.
Please contact csart@acu.edu to RSVP for this Zoom webinar event.