#  ASW: "The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid"  

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 2, 2026** 

 12:00PM - 01:30PM EST 

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 **Harvard CAS Seminar Room. 1280 Massachusetts Ave 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

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Join us for our in-person African Studies Workshop! The workshop series is a scholarly space for Africa-centered research, offering a diverse range of topics and scholarly backgrounds to explore historical and current conditions.  
  
**SPEAKER:** *Jacob S. T. Dlamini, Professor of History, Director, Program in African Studies*

**TITLE**: **"The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid"**

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**Abstract:**

**Biography**:Jacob Dlamini is a historian of Africa, with an interest in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England. Jacob held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from November 2011 to April 2015, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University from August 2014 to May 2015. A qualified field guide, Jacob is also interested in comparative and global histories of conservation and national parks.

**If you are in Cambridge/Boston, we encourage you to join us in the Seminar Room at the Center for African Studies. If you are joining us virtually,** [**please register here on Zoom.**](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/DuWrFnEXR2KJZ8WULtEgTA)[](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZeyMJvZcSL20sEDvHlaY1A)

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