globaloutlookdh-l February 2026

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Call for Papers: Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information
by Rosenblum, Brian 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for “Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information,” a conference taking place at the Kenya National Library Service in Nairobi, June 16–18. Early‑career scholars and practitioners—as well as professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, and related information and cultural institutions—are especially encouraged to participate. Both in‑person and remote presentations are welcome. The proposal deadline is March 15. Please see below for further details. Brian Rosenblum Director, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship University of Kansas Libraries brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu> https://lib.ku.edu/igel Call for Papers Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information Venue: Maktaba Kuu, Kenya National Library Service, Nairobi Dates: 16–18 June 2026 Organizers * Kenya National Library Service<https://www.knls.ac.ke/> * Technical University of Kenya, School of Graduate & Advanced Studies<https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/> * University of Kansas Libraries<https://lib.ku.edu/> Websites * Technical University of Kenya: https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/conference * University of Kansas Libraries, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship: https://lib.ku.edu/igel/connecting-codes Conference Overview Connecting Codes brings together scholars, librarians, heritage professionals, technologists, and students to explore the evolving relationships between artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and information institutions, with a particular emphasis on African contexts and perspectives. The conference title reflects the work of connecting multiple kinds of “codes”: technical systems such as software, data, and AI models; cultural and linguistic knowledge systems; and the institutional, ethical, and professional frameworks through which information is created, interpreted, preserved, and shared. The conference builds on a growing body of Africa-centered digital humanities and library work, including earlier convenings at the Technical University of Kenya and the Kenya National Library Service, as well as digital humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas<https://africandh.ku.edu/> that foreground Africa-based scholarship and diasporic perspectives. Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2026 * Registration opens: April 15, 2026 * Draft materials due (optional): May 15, 2026 * Conference: June 16-18, 2026 * Final submissions for proceedings (optional): July 15, 2026 We welcome regional and international contributions that engage meaningfully with African knowledge systems, languages, infrastructures, and communities. While AI is a central lens, Connecting Codes also invites broader digital humanities and information-centered approaches that attend to context, equity, sustainability, and human expertise. Early-career scholars and practitioners, as well as professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, and related information and cultural institutions, are especially encouraged to participate. In-person and remote presentations are welcome. Conference Themes 1. Human–AI Collaboration and the Future of Knowledge Work This area explores how AI technologies intersect with human expertise in research, description, interpretation, and authorship. We welcome critical and practice-based perspectives on human–AI collaboration, including how workflows, responsibilities, scholarly labor, and professional roles are evolving within libraries, cultural institutions, and research environments in African and global contexts. 2. Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities and Information Studies This area invites contributions on digital humanities methods broadly conceived, including computational analysis, data modeling, metadata creation, visualization, and platform development. Submissions may also address non-computational and hybrid approaches, with particular attention to multilingual, low-resource, and context-specific practices in African and diasporic settings. 3. Equity, Ethics, and Responsibility in Digital and AI-Enabled Scholarship This area focuses on ethical, legal, and social questions surrounding AI and digital scholarship, including bias, accountability, intellectual property, data governance, and consent. We welcome work that critically examines responsible, inclusive, and culturally appropriate approaches to technology, particularly in relation to African communities, collections, and knowledge traditions. 4. Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Digital Heritage This area highlights libraries, archives, museums, and other memory institutions as active sites of digital humanities practice, stewardship, and innovation. Topics may include digitization, preservation, access, community-engaged heritage work, and the use—or critique—of AI and digital tools in managing, describing, and interpreting cultural heritage. 5. Digital Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Capacity Building This area focuses on education, training, and professional development related to digital humanities and AI in academic, cultural, and community settings. Submissions may address curriculum design, skills development, mentorship, institutional capacity building, and strategies for supporting students and early-career professionals. Submission of Abstracts Submit your proposal via the online form at the Technical University of Kenya website: https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/conference Abstracts should articulate the purpose and significance of your work. Depending on your format and approach, this might include research questions, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, key findings, practical applications, or reflective insights. For enquires please contact Tom Kwanya Email: tkwanya(a)tukenya.ac.ke<mailto:tkwanya@tukenya.ac.ke> Brian Rosenblum Email: brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu>

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Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Final Call for Papers and deadline extension! Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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DH colloquium and SADiLex events
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The DH colloquium is expanding! The next DH colloquium takes place on 25 February 2026 from 10:00 to 11:00 SAST: Sikose Mjali will present Digitising Resistance: Tracing Apartheid Job Reservation Through a Corpus of Sechaba (1967-1990) You can register (for free) here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-humanities-colloquium-featuring-siko… Additionally, we will have our first SADiLex presentation! SADiLex is a new webinar series dedicated to lexicography, bringing together leading voices to explore the theory, practice, and future of dictionaries and language innovation. Join us for the inaugural session with Prof Danie Prinsloo on the past, present and future of African languages lexicography. On 18 February 2026 from 14:00 to 15:00 (SAST) You can register (for free) here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadilex-18-february-2026-tickets-19827705430… Please share this with your colleagues, friends and family! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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talk on Ukrainian Libraries in the Time of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Rosenblum, Brian 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, Global Conversations in Librarianship is a new speaker series organized by the Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship<https://lib.ku.edu/igel> at the University of Kansas Libraries, highlighting international perspectives on libraries and information work. Our inaugural speaker will be Tetyana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine. She will present “Ukrainian Libraries in the Time of Russia’s War Against Ukraine” via Zoom webinar on February 26 at 11:00 a.m. US Eastern / 4:00 p.m. GMT. Taking place two days after the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the talk will examine the systematic destruction of Ukrainian cultural institutions—libraries, archives, and museums—during the ongoing war. In addition to addressing wartime resilience, preservation initiatives, and future reconstruction efforts, Yaroshenko will analyze how the deliberate targeting of cultural heritage constitutes what she terms cultural genocide, aimed at erasing Ukrainian culture, history, and national identity. More information is available here: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-libraries-launches-global-speaker-serie… Registration link: https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pPQEMKPKSeaNvx1CyUhK6A#/registra… Please feel free to share this event with others who may be interested. We are also actively seeking speakers from different world regions to highlight compelling projects, practices, and research of broad interest. If you have suggestions, please do get in touch. Warm regards, Brian, -- Brian Rosenblum Director, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship: https://lib.ku.edu/igel University of Kansas Libraries Watson 450, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd Lawrence, KS 66045 brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu>

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