Colleagues,
We are proud to announce the 4th annual African Digital Humanities Symposium. Organized by the University of Ghana and the University of Kansas, the event (previously online only) will be held in person at the University of Ghana
in Accra on February 15-16, and streamed on Zoom.
Morning sessions are devoted to workshops and are for in-person attendees. Afternoon sessions will feature panels and presentations and will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.
See Zoom registration details and full program at
https://africandh.ku.edu/symposium/2024
The program includes the following panels and speakers:
Featured Speakers
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Menno van Zaanen
Professor of Digital Humanities, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR),
South Africa
Building a Digital Humanities community of practice, the case of Escalator
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Randa El Khatib
Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, INKE & Co-director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Building Bridges: The Journey of Digital Humanities Institute Beirut
Panel 1: Digital Collections
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Fu’ad Lawal,
Founder and Project Lead, Archivi.ng
We’re On The Brink Of An Irreparable Loss: Digitizing Nigeria’s Historical Newspapers
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Siaka Fadera
Assistant Director, Research and Documentation Division, National Centre for Arts and Culture, The Gambia
Digitization of the NCA/RDD Oral Archive of The Gambia: Experiences, Challenges, Outlook
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Judith Opoku-Boateng,
Director, J.H. Kwabena Nketia Audio-Visual Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Preserving Audio and Video of Ghanian traditional drumming and dance
Panel 2: Languages
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Augustin Ndione,
Director, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar (CLAD), Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Senegal
Digitizing a didactic method for applications in local language teaching
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Emmanuel Ngue Um,
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Digital Humanities, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Language as Software : A Digital Humanities Perspective to Revealing the Rhizome of African Language Spaces.
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Alex Gil,
Senior Lecturer II & Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University
Mother Tongue DH: Reflections on the Computational Limits of Any Language
Panel 3: Digital Culture
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Ashleigh Harris,
Professor of English, Uppsala University, Sweden & Director ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata Project
Linked Open Metadata for African Literary Heritage
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Karen Ijumba
Senior Researcher, Open Restitution Africa
Poetry Africa Digital Map: An example of how selective and curated digitisation of ephemeral material in collections can enable new pathways of knowledge production
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Kodjo Atiso,
Librarian for Africana and International Studies, University of Kansas
Towards the preservation of flora and fauna: digitization of pre-independence herbarium in Ghana
Panel 4: Artificial Intelligence
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Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana
Gibberish and Structure: ChatGPT and the Curious Case of African Literary Criticism
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Oluwaseun Sanwoolu
PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas
Close personal relationships with AI
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Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Founder, Yoruba Name Project
Digitization in Lexicography: AI and the Future of African Languages and Oratures
Panel 5: DH Infrastructure
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Tunde Ope-Davies
Chair & Principal Investigator, Center for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL)
Digital Humanities as Platform for Redefining and Retooling the Human Sciences: A Case Study
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Brian Rosenblum
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
Building a Digital Humanities Community at a Public Research University
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Roundtable discussion DH Centers & Libraries
With gratitude to all of our sponsors:
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
https://idrh.ku.edu
School of Information and Communication Studies, University of Ghana
https://sics.ug.edu.gh/
ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata
A project funded by the European Research Council
https://almedaresearch.org/
Kansas African Studies Center
https://kasc.ku.edu
University of Kansas Libraries
https://lib.ku.edu
Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics, University of Kansas
https://i2s-research.ku.edu/center-cyber-social-dynamics-ccsd
Project on the History of Black Writing
https://hbw.ku.edu/
Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas
https://afs.ku.edu/
Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana
https://www.ug.edu.gh/infostudies/
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Brian Rosenblum
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Kansas Libraries
Watson 450, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
http://idrh.ku.edu