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X-WR-CALNAME:Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Stud
 ies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Africa/Johannesburg
X-WR-CALDESC:A workshop at STIAS\, Stellenbosch\, exploring how DH and AI t
 ransform research in African Studies.
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UID:d1-welcome@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260921T070000Z
DTEND:20260921T073000Z
SUMMARY:Welcome addresses
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nShort welcome addresses on behalf of STIA
 S — by Edward Kirumira\, Director — and on behalf of the DFG programme
  Point Sud\, by Issa Fofana (Point Sud\, Bamako)\, followed by a brief fra
 ming of the workshop: its goals\, themes and practical information.\nhttps
 ://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d1-welcom
 e
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 1-welcome
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d1-panel-a@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260921T090000Z
DTEND:20260921T103000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 1: Decolonial Methods & Epistemic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nFrom decolonial computing to the measurem
 ent of citation practices and the digital life of Ajami manuscripts\, thes
 e contributions move decolonisation from critique to method and infrastruc
 ture.\n• Before the Algorithm: Decolonial Computing as a Methodological 
 Prerequisite for AI-Assisted Heritage Research in Africa — Khaoula Stiti
 \n• Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)\, Citation Practices\, an
 d the Empirical Measurement of Knowledge Decolonisation: A Computational A
 pproach — Iginio Gagliardone\, Christine Mataranyika\, Max Milella\, Kar
 abo Mohapeloa\, Joshua Ward\n• Les manuscrits ajami à l’ère de l’i
 ntelligence artificielle : enjeux épistémiques\, infrastructures numéri
 ques et savoirs africains — Aminata Kane\, Augustin Ndione\nChair: Emman
 uel Ngue Um\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme
 #session-d1-panel-a
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 1-panel-a
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d1-keynote@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260921T120000Z
DTEND:20260921T133000Z
SUMMARY:Keynote: Sustainable and Responsible AI Workflows in History from a
  Global Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nSarah Oberbichler\nhttps://fmadore.github
 .io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d1-keynote
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 1-keynote
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d1-panel-b@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260921T140000Z
DTEND:20260921T153000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 2: Centring African Knowledge Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nThese papers ground digital and AI method
 s in African epistemologies — reading folktales\, Yorùbá thought and l
 iterary emotion as knowledge systems that reshape the very tools used to s
 tudy them.\n• Re-coding the Yorùbá Epistemologies in the Era of Artifi
 cial Intelligence: A Relational Ethnography of AI-Generated Videos of Ìt
 àn Ìjàpá\, its Creator and Viewers on Facebook and TikTok — Hammed O
 lalekan Lawal\, Alawiye Basheer Adisa\, Elizabeth Olanike Adekoya\, Adeban
 jo Oreoluwa Baderin\n• L’émotion par le non-dit : pour une stratégie
  d’annotation des émotions chez le personnage de Ramatoulaye dans Une s
 i longue lettre de Mariama Bâ — Falimatou Pemgbou\n• Moral Ecology of
  African Folktales: Grounding Digital Humanities in African Knowledge Syst
 ems — Augustine A. Farinola\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-works
 hop-2026/programme#session-d1-panel-b
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 1-panel-b
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d2-panel-c@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260922T070000Z
DTEND:20260922T083000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 3: Documenting & Sustaining African Languages
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nFAIR data practices\, generative AI for m
 ultilingual literacy and strategies for long-term sustainability: how Afri
 can linguistic heritage is documented\, taught and kept alive in the digit
 al era.\n• Preserving Linguistic Memory through FAIR Practices: Lessons 
 from SADiLaR and Ibali — Benito Trollip\, Sanjin Muftić\n• AI for the
  ‘Alphabet without borders’: Piloting generative AI for adaptive multi
 lingual literacy materials in the LILIEMA programme in Senegal — Frieder
 ike Lüpke\, Jules Mansaly\n• Recherche en sciences sociales et pérenni
 sation des langues africaines à l’ère du numérique — Evelyne Amana\
 nChair: Iginio Gagliardone\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop
 -2026/programme#session-d2-panel-c
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 2-panel-c
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d2-panel-d@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260922T090000Z
DTEND:20260922T103000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 4: Manuscripts\, Histories & Computational Methods
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nHTR for Ajami manuscripts\, large languag
 e models reading historical codebooks and computer vision applied to image
 s circulating in Sahelian WhatsApp groups show what computation makes legi
 ble in African textual and social archives.\n• Building NLP/HTR Infrastr
 ucture for Ajami Manuscripts — Oreen Yousuf\n• Beyond the Readable Arc
 hive: Historical Codebooks\, Large Language Models\, and the Precolonial A
 frican Bead Trade\, 1500–1900 — Lauren Coetzee\n• Difference in Simi
 larity: Visual Narratives in Fulani WhatsApp groups in the Sahel — Luca 
 Bruls\, Bruno Allahissem\, Matthew Sung\, Jelena Prokic\, Mirjam de Bruijn
 \nChair: Frédérick Madore\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-worksho
 p-2026/programme#session-d2-panel-d
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 2-panel-d
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d3-panel-e@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260923T070000Z
DTEND:20260923T083000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 5: Digital Archives\, Metadata & Discovery
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nAI-assisted metadata\, entity linking and
  protocol-based access converge on a shared problem: making African herita
 ge collections findable\, connected and usable across institutions.\n• E
 nriching the Invisible: AI-Assisted Metadata Generation and the Findabilit
 y of Southern African Heritage Collections — Sanjin Muftić\n• Linking
  African Studies Metadata to Wikidata: A Training-Free Pipeline and the Ga
 ps It Measures — Jiayu Yang\, Durgesh Nandini\n• Les serveurs MCP pour
  les GLAM africains : ouvrir l’accès\, garder la maîtrise ? — Fréd
 érick Madore\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/program
 me#session-d3-panel-e
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 3-panel-e
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d3-discussion@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260923T090000Z
DTEND:20260923T103000Z
SUMMARY:Group discussion: Networking and Communication Strategies for DH Sc
 holars
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nMenno van Zaanen\n• Networking and Comm
 unication Strategies for DH Scholars — Menno van Zaanen\nhttps://fmadore
 .github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d3-discussion
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 3-discussion
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d3-panel-f@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260923T120000Z
DTEND:20260923T133000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 6: Language AI: Translation & Learning
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nScaling language technologies for African
  languages — from a framework for inclusive language AI to rule-based ma
 chine translation and multimodal computer-assisted learning under infrastr
 uctural constraint.\n• From Data to Impact: A 4D Framework for Scaling L
 anguage AI Across African Languages — Tajuddeen Gwadabe\, Lydia Kila Tab
 an\n• Traduire sans équivalence : enjeux épistémologiques du transfer
 t linguistique dans un système de traduction automatique à base de règl
 es pour la paire français-ewondo — Eliette Ngo Tjomb Assembe\n• Desig
 ning Multimodal CALL for African Languages: Pedagogical Innovation Under I
 nfrastructural Constraint — Rachel Maina\nChair: Menno van Zaanen\nhttps
 ://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d3-panel-
 f
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 3-panel-f
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d4-keynote@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260924T073000Z
DTEND:20260924T083000Z
SUMMARY:Keynote: Que sait une machine ? Épistémologie\, gestion des donn
 ées et enjeux de l’IA pour les langues africaines
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nEmmanuel Ngue Um\nhttps://fmadore.github.
 io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d4-keynote
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 4-keynote
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d4-panel-g@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260924T090000Z
DTEND:20260924T103000Z
SUMMARY:Panel 7: Sustainable Infrastructures & Frugal Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nFrugal infrastructures\, South–South ec
 ologies\, community co-production and the limits of generic AI in African 
 settings: what it takes to build research capacity that lasts.\n• Frugal
  Infrastructures and South-South Ecologies for Sustainable Digital Researc
 h in African Humanities — Leonard Kibet Kirui\n• Digital Humanities an
 d the “Town Question” in Nigerian History: Accessibility\, Co-Producti
 on\, and Sustainable Infrastructures from a Nigerian Perspective — John 
 Oluwafemi Daniel\n• L’IA générique face aux réalités africaines : 
 défis structurels et voies alternatives pour la recherche en cybersécuri
 té au Burkina Faso — Mohamadou Konaté\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias
 -dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d4-panel-g
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 4-panel-g
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d4-discussion@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260924T120000Z
DTEND:20260924T133000Z
SUMMARY:Group discussion: Teaching Digital History as a Historian of Africa
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nVincent Hiribarren\n• Teaching Digital 
 History as a Historian of Africa — Vincent Hiribarren\nhttps://fmadore.g
 ithub.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d4-discussion
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 4-discussion
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d4-concluding@stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026
DTSTAMP:20260918T000000Z
DTSTART:20260924T140000Z
DTEND:20260924T150000Z
SUMMARY:Concluding remarks & synthesis
DESCRIPTION:Join on Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39791
 2490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443\nClosing discussion: shared takeaways\, op
 en questions\, and next steps — including plans for the joint publicatio
 n arising from the workshop.\nhttps://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-worksh
 op-2026/programme#session-d4-concluding
LOCATION:STIAS\, 10 Marais Road\, Mostertsdrift\, Stellenbosch
URL:https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026/programme#session-d
 4-concluding
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
CONFERENCE;VALUE=URI;FEATURE=VIDEO;LABEL=Microsoft Teams:https://teams.micr
 osoft.com/meet/397912490941524?p=Dii7uI0Q2sCfeWh443
END:VEVENT
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