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Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices

Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um and Menno van Zaanen

Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 21-24 September 2026

The integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the production of knowledge in African Studies, offering new opportunities for innovative analysis, dynamic ...

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Conference

Reconfiguring the Archive: Relationality and Discovery in the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)

Reimagining the Archive in the Post-Truth Era: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cory Library for Historical Research, Makhanda, South Africa, 1 July 2026

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Humanités numériques (DH) et IA dans les études africaines

9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris, France, 30 juin 2026

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Retour sur une note de synthèse analysant la relation entre Humanités Numériques, l’IA et les Études Africaines (Hanovre, février 2026)

9èmes Rencontres des études africaines en France (REAF), Paris, France, 30 June 2026

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Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia

Seminar series 'Digital History in/of Central Asia and the South Caucasus', Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 29 June 2026

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Beyond Keywords: AI-Mediated Access to the Islam West Africa Collection through an MCP Server and Agent Skill

Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 15 June 2026

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Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany, 6 May 2026

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Workshop

From Digital Hoarding to Open Archives: Using AI Agents to Unlock West African Newspaper Collections

Non-European Approaches in European Academia: Strategies for De-Europeanizing Research, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 16 April 2026

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Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia

Kick-off 'Open Up', Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany, 4 March 2026

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Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany, 18-20 February 2026

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2025

Podcast

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies

ZMO Kitchen Talks, ep. 14, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany, 11 December 2025

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Lecture

Building AI Pipelines for African Digital Collections: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection

Work talk ALMEDA project, Uppsala University, Sweden, 5 December 2025

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Présentation-discussion de l'ouvrage Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin

Conférences midi du CIRAM, Université Laval, Canada, 6 November 2025

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From Archives to Algorithms: Uncovering Transregional Islamic Connections through the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

Eighth European Congress on World and Global History, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 11 September 2025

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Lecture

When AI Meets the Archive: Transforming the Islam West Africa Collection with Large Language Models

SADiLaR Digital Humanities colloquia, North-West University, South Africa, 20 August 2025

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Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives

10th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Prague, Czech Republic, 26 June 2025

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Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices

The record

Reconfiguring the Archive: Relationality and Discovery in the Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)

Humanités numériques (DH) et IA dans les études africaines

Retour sur une note de synthèse analysant la relation entre Humanités Numériques, l’IA et les Études Africaines (Hanovre, février 2026)

Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia

Beyond Keywords: AI-Mediated Access to the Islam West Africa Collection through an MCP Server and Agent Skill

Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond

From Digital Hoarding to Open Archives: Using AI Agents to Unlock West African Newspaper Collections

Islam's "Peripheries": Digital Humanities, Algorithmic Analysis, and AI in West Africa and Central Asia

Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in African and Islamic Studies

Building AI Pipelines for African Digital Collections: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection

Présentation-discussion de l'ouvrage Religious Activism on Campuses in Togo and Benin

From Archives to Algorithms: Uncovering Transregional Islamic Connections through the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

When AI Meets the Archive: Transforming the Islam West Africa Collection with Large Language Models

Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives