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)

85 entries

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2027

Conference paper

Knowledge Gaps and Mediated Access: AI Infrastructure and Practice for African Research Data

3rd Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH 2027), “Model/Making: Toward Generative Humanities”, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po Campus, Hong Kong, 21 January 2027

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2026

Workshop

Same Name, Different Country: AI Agents, Human Oversight and Entity Disambiguation in the Islam West Africa Collection

Data Modelling in the Project Alevi Archive, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 3 December 2026

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Seminar

Digital Humanities and AI in the Social Sciences: Datafication in Practice

ZMO Projektversammlung, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany, 12 November 2026

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2026

Podcast

Soundscapes of Digital History - Frédérick Madore

Soundscapes of Digital History, H-Soz-Kult, Germany, Forthcoming

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Poster

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

35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026), Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, 10 November 2026

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Workshop

Introduction to Research Data Management

Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany, 5 November 2026
Conference paper

Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Research Metadata via Cross-Lingual Retrieval Consensus

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2026), Embassy Suites by Hilton Dallas Frisco Hotel & Convention Center, Frisco, Texas, United States, 15 October 2026

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Poster

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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Workshop French

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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Academic event English, French

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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Conference paper

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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Panel organised French

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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Lecture

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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Conference paper

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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Lecture

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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Knowledge Gaps and Mediated Access: AI Infrastructure and Practice for African Research Data

Same Name, Different Country: AI Agents, Human Oversight and Entity Disambiguation in the Islam West Africa Collection

Digital Humanities and AI in the Social Sciences: Datafication in Practice

The record

Soundscapes of Digital History - Frédérick Madore

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

Introduction to Research Data Management

Beyond Keywords: Training-Free Entity Linking for Research Metadata via Cross-Lingual Retrieval Consensus

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

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