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Fwd: [DHSI] 4th Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium

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    From: Rosenblum, Brian <brianrosenblum@ku.edu>
    Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM
    Subject: [DHSI] 4th Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium
    To: institute@lists.uvic.ca <institute@lists.uvic.ca>

    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 (SADiLaR (https://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.ng
    (https://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 (https://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

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