BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2145@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241203T121315 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241206T161500 SUMMARY: Jacob Dlamini (Princeton University): The Archive Machine: The Tru th Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid DESCRIPTION:It has been 26 years since South Africa’s Truth and Reconcili ation Commission (TRC) delivered its final report to then-President Nelson Mandela\, and 21 years since the TRC’s Amnesty Committee presented its findings to Mandela’s successor Thabo Mbeki. There has developed during that time a range of views about the commission\, most of them critical. I n my lecture\, I aim to present the TRC as an archive machine\, a device t hat sought (and succeeded more than its critics are prepared to acknowledg e) to make possible new lines of historical inquiry\, to set the condition s for the posing of new questions about the past\, and to help many gain a better understanding of apartheid while imagining new futures. Building o n Adam Sitze’s notion of the TRC as an impossible machine\, I draw atten tion to the thinginess of the commission\, to its status as a machine\, a contrivance designed to produce certain effects. These effects include the tracks\, the leads\, the traces and the suspects whose actions\, names an d whereabouts the TRC flagged but about which it did or could little. The lecture\, then\, is a guarded defense of the TRC and its legacy.\\r\\nJaco b Dlamini is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. He is a historian of Africa\, with an interest in precolonial\, colonial and po stcolonial African History. Dlamini obtained his Ph.D. from Yale Universit y in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Su ssex University in England. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Unive rsity of Barcelona\, Spain\, from November 2011 to April 2015\, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015. As a qualified field guide\, he is also interested in comparative and global hi stories of conservation and national parks. X-ALT-DESC:

It has been 26 years since South Africa’s Truth and Reconci liation Commission (TRC) delivered its final report to then-President Nels on Mandela\, and 21 years since the TRC’s Amnesty Committee presented it s findings to Mandela’s successor Thabo Mbeki. There has developed durin g that time a range of views about the commission\, most of them critical. In my lecture\, I aim to present the TRC as an archive machine\, a device that sought (and succeeded more than its critics are prepared to acknowle dge) to make possible new lines of historical inquiry\, to set the conditi ons for the posing of new questions about the past\, and to help many gain a better understanding of apartheid while imagining new futures. Building on Adam Sitze’s notion of the TRC as an impossible machine\, I draw att ention to the thinginess of the commission\, to its status as a machine\, a contrivance designed to produce certain effects. These effects include t he tracks\, the leads\, the traces and the suspects whose actions\, names and whereabouts the TRC flagged but about which it did or could little. Th e lecture\, then\, is a guarded defense of the TRC and its legacy.

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Jacob Dlamini is Associate Professor of History at Princ eton University. He is a historian of Africa\, with an interest in precolo nial\, colonial and postcolonial African History. Dlamini obtained his Ph. D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. He held a postdoctoral f ellowship at the University of Barcelona\, Spain\, from November 2011 to A pril 2015\, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2 014 to May 2015. As a qualified field guide\, he is also interested in com parative and global histories of conservation and national parks.

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