[Afridig] Call for participation DHASA Conference 2021

[Menno van Zaanen]

Call for participation DHASA Conference 2021
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za/

Theme: “Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent”

Conference: 29 November 2021 - 3 December 2021

The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
organizing its third conference with the theme “Digitally Human,
Artificially Intelligent”. The field of Digital Humanities is currently
still rather underdeveloped in Southern Africa. Hence, this conference
has several aims. First, to bring together researchers who are
interested in showcasing their research from the broad field of Digital
Humanities. By doing so, this conference provides an overview of the
current state-of-the-art of Digital Humanities especially in the
Southern Africa region. This includes Digital Humanities research by
people from Southern Africa or research related to the geographical
area of Southern Africa.

Second, the conference allows for information sharing among researchers
interested in Digital Humanities as well as network building. By
bringing together researchers working on Digital Humanities from
Southern Africa or on Southern Africa, we hope to boost collaboration
and research in this field.

Third, affiliated workshops and tutorials provide information for
researchers to learn about novel technologies and tools. These related
events are aimed at researchers interested in the field of Digital
Humanities, to focus on specific aspects of Digital Humanities or to
provide practical information for researchers to move into the field or
advance their knowledge in the field.

The DHASA conference is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers
working on all areas of Digital Humanities (including, but not limited
to language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies,
media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language
technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and
computation, etc.). It aims to create the conditions for the emergence
of a scientific Digital Humanities community of practice.

Given the current state of the Covid pandemic, the conference will be
fully virtual. 

Programme

The conference programme (including co-located events) can be found on
the DHASA 2021 website: 
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za/schedule/

Co-located events 

The conference boasts several co-located events, including the 2nd RAIL
workshop (https://bit.ly/3eBimo9), and a range of tutorials (e.g.,
CATMA, Glosario hackathon, WikimediaZA edit-a-thon, Digitalization and
Visualization (A practical approach with TEI data), Text Mining for
Newbies, Expanding the influence of DH throughout the humanities –
Introducing Gale Digital Scholar Lab).

Costs

Participation at the conference and all co-located events is free, but
DHASA membership (only ZAR250!) is required. 

Organizing Committee

Andiswa Bukula
Rooweither Mabuya
Franziska Pannach
Amanda du Preez
Oghenere Salubi
Mmasibidi Setaka
Anusha Sewchurrana
Menno van Zaanen

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Prof Menno van Zaanen     menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org