The SAA Student Organization would like to invite everyone to an
> informal engagement with Verne Harris. He is the Project Manager for
> the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
> in South Africa and will be leading an informal discussion on Archives
> and Justice at SI on December 14 from 4 to 5pm in the Ehrlicher Room.
> Many of us know Mr. Harris from his writings on Archives, Politics,
> and Justice from the former SI 504 and other ARM classes. Please join
> us for this special opportunity. Refreshments will be provided.
>
> "Verne Harris is Project Manager for the Nelson Mandela Centre of
> Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and an honorary research
> associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. He participated in
> a range of structures which transformed South Africa's apartheid
> public records system – amongst others, the African National
> Congress's Archives Committee, the Arts and Culture Task Group, the
> Consultative Forum which drafted the National Archives of South Africa
> Act, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the South African
> History Archive. Widely published, he is best known for the books
> Exploring Archives: An Introduction to Archival Ideas and Practice in
> South Africa (1997, 2000 and 2004), Refiguring the Archive (2002), A
> Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive
> (2005), and Archives and Justice (2007). He is also the author of two
> novels, both of which were short-listed for South Africa's M-Net Book
> Prize."
> [from http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/archives_conf.html]