Name: Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices
Start: 2026-09-21
End: 2026-09-24
Location: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)

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2026

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Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Multilingual Research Metadata

35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, 9 November 2026

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Responsible AI Access to Research Repositories: An MCP Server for African Studies Data

AI Day 2026, Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS²), University of Bayreuth, Germany, 25 September 2026

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Les serveurs MCP pour les GLAM africains : une voie d’avenir à l’ère de l’IA ?

Humanités numériques et intelligence artificielle en études africaines : vers des pratiques durables et équitables, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 23 September 2026

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

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

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Lecture

University of Kansas AI and Africa Symposium

AI and Africa Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States, 17 September 2026

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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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Conference paper French

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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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
Conference paper

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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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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Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Multilingual Research Metadata

Responsible AI Access to Research Repositories: An MCP Server for African Studies Data

Les serveurs MCP pour les GLAM africains : une voie d’avenir à l’ère de l’IA ?

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

University of Kansas AI and Africa Symposium

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