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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

* Menno van Zaanen Professor of Digital Humanities, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaRhttps://sadilar.org/), 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.nghttps://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 Projecthttps://www.yorubaname.com/ 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/

-- 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