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        Date: 2025-03-18 14:52:40+00:00
        From: Chiara Palladino <chiarapalladino1@gmail.com>
        Subject: Seminar Announcement: Digital treatment of African cultural heritage

Join us for this upcoming event at the Material Digital Humanities seminars
2025:

Digital treatment of African cultural heritage: Shifting landmarks and
implications for copyright exceptions for archives

Speaker: Chijioke Okorie (University of Pretoria)
Date: Monday March 24 at 15:00–16:00 GMT. Online only.

This talk examines how copyright law must adapt to facilitate digital
treatment of African cultural heritage. It challenges traditional notions
of preservation and access, advocating for "agency" as a vital guiding
principle for digital treatment. The talk further highlights how this shift
empowers institutions and prepares them for future copyright reforms,
fostering decolonization and restitution in archival practices.

Chijioke Okorie is Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, South
Africa, and the Founding Director/Principal Investigator of Data Science
Law Lab, a research network that deploys research in law and produces
evidence and policy advice to support the growth of data science and AI
research across Africa. Chijioke led the development of the Nwulite Obodo
Open Data License for sharing African datasets openly and equitably.
Chijioke is an Associate Editor of South African Intellectual Property Law
Journal, and the author of several articles on intellectual property and
innovation law issues in Africa.

The Material Digital Humanities seminar is organised by Gabriel Bodard
(Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London, UK) and Chiara
Palladino (Department of Classics, Furman University, USA) in 2025. This
seminar series will present a range of discussions around materiality and
the research possibilities offered by digital methods and approaches.
Beyond just the value of digitization and computational research to the
study of material culture, we are especially interested in theoretical and
digital approaches to the question of materiality itself. We do not
restrict ourselves to any period of history or academic discipline, but
want to encourage interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and the
valuable exchange of ideas enabled by cross-pollination of languages, areas
of history, geography and cultures.

All welcome

This event is free to attend, but booking is required. It will be held
online with *details about how to join the virtual event being circulated
via email to registered attendees 24 hours in advance*.

https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/digital-treatment-african-cultural-
heritage-shifting-landmarks-implications-copyright-exceptions

If people are interested, the full program is available at
https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4323.

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Chiara Palladino, PhD
Associate Professor of Classics
Chair, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
Shi Institute Faculty Affiliate
Office: Furman Hall 128A
Furman University


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