This year, Professor Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and Bram Fischer's biographer spoke at our memorial lecture. His lecture was titled 'Bram Fischer in our Times'. This lecture was live streamed to Johannesburg for the first time.

Original upload date: April 10, 2013

UMass Amherst Interdisciplinary Studies Institute "Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination," October 14-15 2015, Amherst, MA Symposium Opening and Welcome Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Chancellor Invocation: Rowland Abiodun Welcome and acknowledgments: Stephen Clingman

Webinar Event: Race and Representation: A Roundtable with Jacob Dlamini, Caryl Phillips, and Manisha Sinha This event is organized by the IHGMS 2020-21 Five College Working Group on Race and Representations, co-directed by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Stephen Clingman. (For more information: https://www.umass.edu/ihgms/ihgms-current-five-college-working-group-2020-2021-race-and-representations) After the murder of George Floyd, questions of police brutality and systemic racism in the United States have convulsed the country. These questions have been on the agenda for a long time—as long ago as the founding of the country and the Civil War. Around the world the history of race has been central. How is race connected to representation, whether as a matter of social structure or the ways in which different races are imaged in public discourse? For the past year an interdisciplinary group of scholars hosted by the IHGMS has been engaged in exploring these questions. Now we host three distinguished speakers whose work is centrally involved with these issues. Please join us for a conversation of importance to us all in these times.

South African Photographer David Goldblatt "In Conversation" with Susan Jahoda (UMass Professor of Studio Art), Stephen Clingman (UMass Professor of English and Director of ISHA), and Natasha Becker (Mellon Assistant Dirctor of Research and Academic Programs, The Clark Art Institute).

On April 28, 2014, Stephen Clingman presented "Pathologies of the Boundary: South African Fiction." Clingman is a professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts. Kerry Chance, Faculty Fellow in Harvard’s Department of Anthropology, was the discussant.