Programme in African Digital Humanities : Presentations

Thursday, 29 July, 2021 - 16:00

year three : achievements, problems and plans across the humanities


Monday, 26, 4:00pm
Tsikinya-Chaka Centre: The Sol Plaatje Archive of Shakespeare in African Languages -- Chris Thurman
IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions under Colonialism: Digital & Computational Project -- Jacques De Wet
Critical engagement with Big Data in the Global South -- Iginio Gagliardone
Digitising the WUP backlist -- Andrew Joseph

Tuesday, 27, 4:00pm
herri -- Aryan Kaganof
Digitising The Adler Museum Bulletin and The Leech -- Catherine Burns
The Digital Bibliography of Shona/Ndebele Fiction (1956 - 1980) -- Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Constitutional Assembly Project (SAFLII) -- Carina Pillay

Wednesday, 28, 4:00pm
Archiving Past: Performing Present -- Jayne Batzofin
Mapping Struggle Testimonies and Music from Apartheid Prisons -- Janie Cole
Digitising the South African Black Press as a tool for a decolonial, multilingual and transdisciplinary archive -- Sisanda Nkoala
Learners’ reading practices and teachers’ expectations -- Nyaomi Boakye

Thursday, 29, 3:00pm
VOC Auction Rolls -- Johan Fourie
Jews and the Struggle for Human Rights in South Africa -- Leila Bloch
South African Hansard Digitisation -- Stephen Sparks
MPW Photo-Digital-Archives Project -- Candice Jansen

Thursday, 29, 4:00pm
Indigenous African sheet music repository -- Evans Netshivhambe
The Digitial Bleek and Lloyd -- Pippa Skotnes
Metsemegologolo: multimodal landscape archive of African urbanisms -- Stefania Merlo
Five Hundred Year Archive -- Rifqah Kahn
 
 
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