Colleagues,

 

We are proud to announce the 4^th 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

• 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

 

• 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

• Fu’ad Lawal, Founder and Project Lead, Archivi.ng
  We’re On The Brink Of An Irreparable Loss: Digitizing Nigeria’s Historical Newspapers

 

• 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

 

• 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

• 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

 

• 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.

 

• 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

• Ashleigh Harris, Professor of English, Uppsala University, Sweden & Director ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata Project
  Linked Open Metadata for African Literary Heritage

 

• 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

 

• 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

• Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
  Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana
  Gibberish and Structure: ChatGPT and the Curious Case of African Literary Criticism

 

• Oluwaseun Sanwoolu
  PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas
  Close personal relationships with AI

 

• Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
  Founder, Yoruba Name Project
  Digitization in Lexicography: AI and the Future of African Languages and Oratures

 

Panel 5: DH Infrastructure

• 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

 

• Brian Rosenblum
  Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
  Building a Digital Humanities Community at a Public Research University

 

• 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/