{"id":625,"date":"2014-10-07T14:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/?p=625"},"modified":"2014-10-07T14:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:26:48","slug":"conference-speaker-verne-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/conference-speakers-individual\/conference-speaker-verne-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Speaker: Verne Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>VERNE HARRIS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonmandela.org\/\">http:\/\/www.nelsonmandela.org\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Verne_Harris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96 alignleft\" alt=\"Verne Harris\" src=\"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Verne_Harris.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Verne is Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and was Mandela\u2019s archivist from 2004 to 2013.\u00a0He is an honorary research fellow with the University of Cape Town, participated in a range of structures which transformed South Africa\u2019s apartheid archival landscape, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and is a former Deputy Director of the National Archives.\u00a0Widely published, he is probably best-known for leading the editorial team on the best-seller Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself.\u00a0He is the recipient of archival publication awards from Australia, Canada and South Africa, and both his novels were short-listed for South Africa\u2019s M-Net Book Prize.\u00a0He has served on the Boards of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, the Freedom of Expression Institute, and the South African History Archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERNE HARRIS Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation http:\/\/www.nelsonmandela.org\/ Verne is Director of Research and Archive at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and was Mandela\u2019s archivist from&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/conference-speakers-individual\/conference-speaker-verne-harris\/\">View Full Article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-speakers-individual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accounts.ulster.ac.uk\/accounts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}