Dear Tunde,
first of all, thanks very much for your feedback. You're right, we did not mention Africa. The first reason (which is only a partial justification) is that Gimena and I know a good deal about Latin America, but very little about the African DH scenario. I'm really grateful that you're sending this information to the list -- I wish I knew about your conference earlier!
Secondly, our blog post originated as a contribution to a discussion going on within the Hispanic DH association which is holding its annual conference in Malaga next week. That explains also our narrower focus. That of course doesn't mean we are not interested: quite the opposite! In fact we're looking forward to receive submissions from Africa for the Global Debates volume ( http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2017_global_digital_humanities.html). And we'd be very grateful if you could circulate the CFP among as many African colleagues and institutions as possible.
We look forward to expand this South-South dialogue -- let's hope we'll have an opportunity in Mexico DH 2018! Perhaps we could organize a panel or round table that would focus on experiences from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean (an 'old' North now rapidly becoming South). What really drives nuts the Global North is when Global South people start to dialogue to each other ;-)
Warm regards,
Domenico
Il 14 Ott 2017 10:59, "Tunde Opeibi" tundeopeibi@gmail.com ha scritto:
Dear ALL, I support that we all read the post as suggested by Domenico. Thank you for the thoughtful and insightful post on the true 'global' state of our DH community(-ies). I was just a little bit surprised that Africa was completely ignored or neglected in the post. Thankfully GO::DH is striving to bridge that gap. It has opened its doors to support our initiatives in the Global South. For instance, Dan (i.e. Prof O'Donnell) was with us at the University of Lagos, Nigeria as keynote speaker and workshop facilitator during our *1st Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities* ( July 10-15, 2017). Just an additional piece of information. Between November 14 and 18, 2017, I will be hosting the 1st International Conference in Digital Humanities at the University of Lagos, Nigeria supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany as part of its alumni network programmes. The current chair of EADH, Professor Eide has agreed to be the keynote speaker. We look forward to a great conference in Lagos. Should you consider attending, kindly contact me. Please visit www.dhunilag.com for additional information. Let me again return to the post by saying that it has raised a number of soul-searching thoughts. More importantly, it mentioned some of the challenges we face in the Global South and how we seek equal and fair treatment from other DH associations and groups. We hope we can move this conversation forward to achieve a more productive and mutually beneficial but truly global DH scholarship and communities. Thank you. With best wishes, Tunde
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Domenico Fiormonte < domenico.fiormonte@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone!
People on this list might be interested in reading this post (in Spanish) on some political and institutional aspects of global DH:
https://infolet.it/2017/10/09/humanidades-digitales-globales/
All the best
Domenico
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