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[1] From: Rosenblum, Brian <brianrosenblum@ku.edu>
Subject: 4th Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium (170)
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: CfP Computational Paleography (ICDAR 2024, Athens Aug. 31) (36)
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Date: 2024-02-01 06:41:41+00:00
From: Rosenblum, Brian <brianrosenblum@ku.edu>
Subject: 4th Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium
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
<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 <https://idrh.ku.edu>
School of Information and Communication Studies, University of Ghana
https://sics.ug.edu.gh/ <https://sics.ug.edu.gh/>
ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata
A project funded by the European Research Council
https://almedaresearch.org/ <https://almedaresearch.org/>
Kansas African Studies Center
https://kasc.ku.edu <https://kasc.ku.edu>
University of Kansas Libraries
https://lib.ku.edu <https://lib.ku.edu>
Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics, University of Kansas
https://i2s-research.ku.edu/center-cyber-social-dynamics-ccsd
<https://i2s-research.ku.edu/center-cyber-social-dynamics-ccsd>
Project on the History of Black Writing
https://hbw.ku.edu/ <https://hbw.ku.edu/>
Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas
https://afs.ku.edu/ <https://afs.ku.edu/>
Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana
https://www.ug.edu.gh/infostudies/ <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
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Date: 2024-02-01 06:25:00+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: CfP Computational Paleography (ICDAR 2024, Athens Aug. 31)
[Forwarded Message
The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>]
Dear colleagues
The third International Workshop on Computational Paleography (IWCP3)
will take place in Athens on August 31st in conjunction with the
18th Int.
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
It aims at reflecting state of the art research on historical
handwriting analysis. It will be one day long with oral presentations of
accepted papers and of starting or ongoing projects (upon abstract
submissions). A general discussion will be organised around 3 to 5
"challenging topics" open to submissions.
Please find the details on this link: Int. Workshop on Computational
Paleography <https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2024.html> (IWCP3).
Deadline March 15.
Don't hesitate to disseminate
All the best
The co-organizers
Dr. Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello
Assistant Professor
Institute of Ancient Civilizations
University of Basel
Dr. rer. nat. Hussein Adnan Mohammed
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
University of Hamburg
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