Anyone who is interested can view the Verne Harris lecture at http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/viewer/?peid=c3e534e4-0fcf-493 (just scroll down to Information Sciences and follow from there).
Here is the relevant information on the lecture --- 
 
POLICY, ETHICS & ACCOUNTABILITY Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the School of Information Sciences and the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership
University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, March 23, 2006
“Reaching for Hospitality:  Politics and Ethics in Recordmaking”
Verne Harris, Project Manager, Centre for Memory, Nelson Mandela Foundation
Verne Harris, an archivist and Project Manager with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, South Africa, will present a lecture on the roles of archivists and of politics as intruders in recordmaking.  Mr. Harris will address the case for a just politics for recordmakers, a politics based on reaching for hospitality.   “As I do the rounds, disciplinary and geographical, the dominant question I hear addressing ‘the political’ by recordmakers is – what are we to do with this intruder?  And so, the recordmakers construct codes of conduct which define their core principles as a defense against the dynamics of power and authority.  This is precisely why most professional codes of conduct are of little use in the trenches.  Politics is not the intruder.  It is the stuff of daily professional work.”
Speaker’s Bio:  Verne Harris currently serves as the Project Manager for the Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.  The Centre is dedicated to providing memory resources in honor of Mr. Mandela and his work.  Previously, Harris was the Director of the South African History Archive (SAHA), an independent archive that documents the struggles against apartheid and for justice in post-apartheid South Africa. He has also been a part-time lecturer in archives in the University of the Witwatersrand's post-graduate program in Heritage Studies. He has published widely in the fields of archives, records management, history, music, and fiction.  He is author of Exploring Archives: An Introduction to Archival Ideas and Practice in South Africa (2000) and co-editor and a contributing author to Refiguring the Archive (2002).  Most recently, he served on the team of editors and writers for A Prisoner in the Garden:  Photos, letters, and notes from Nelson Mandela’s 27 years in !
 prison (2006).  His Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective is being published by the Society of American Archivists in 2006.

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