Log · 34 entries · 2024 — 2026
Talks, workshops, conferences, grants and publications, most recent first.
Publication
Our collective position paper on digital humanities and AI in African Studies is now freely available in the ZMO Programmatic Texts series.
Digital Humanities · AI · African Studies · Publication · +1
Lecture
Aksana Ismailbekova and I introduced our VolkswagenStiftung-funded project on AI and Islamic archives in West Africa and Central Asia in the “Digital History in/of Central Asia and the South Caucasus” seminar series at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Volkswagen Foundation · Digital Humanities · AI · Large Language Models · +6
Conference
Reflections on the Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History in Luxembourg, where I presented the MCP server I built for the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC).
Digital Humanities · Digital History · AI · Large Language Models · +6
News
The Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA) is now live. A major project I have worked on as Data Curator at the University of Bayreuth, it offers a central platform for exploring and visualising research data from the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple.
Digital Humanities · African Studies · Africa Multiple · University of Bayreuth · +3
Lecture
Invited talk for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA) roundtable on Digital Humanities and AI in regional studies, exploring how AI can turn scholars’ dormant scan collections into active research instruments.
Digital Humanities · AI · IWAC · Talk · +5
Publication
Blog post co-authored with Vincent Hiribarren for Digital History Bielefeld, reflecting on the Hannover workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies.
Digital Humanities · AI · African Studies · Workshop · +2
Workshop
Call for papers for a four-day workshop at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, 21–24 September 2026, co-organised with Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngué Um, and Menno van Zaanen, and funded by the DFG Point Sud programme.
Digital Humanities · AI · African Studies · Call for Papers · +2
Publication
Publication of the edited volume L’Afrique des religions à l’épreuve des chiffres et des catégorisations, featuring a chapter co-authored with Fiacre Anato on the limits of religious categorisations in Beninese censuses and surveys.
Publication · Benin · Religion · West Africa