Participants

Iginio Gagliardone

University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa
Iginio Gagliardone

Iginio Gagliardone is the inaugural SA-UK Bilateral SARChI Chair in the Digital Humanities at Wits University. He is the author of “China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet” (2019), “The Politics of Technology in Africa” (2016), and “Countering Online Hate Speech” (2015). His most recent work examines the international politics of Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of new imageries of technological evolution in Africa and in the Global South.

Paper

DH & AI in African Studies

21–24 September 2026
STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Key Dates

  • Submission Deadline
  • Notification of Acceptance
  • Deadline for Full Papers
  • Workshop Dates

Supported by

Point SudSTIAS — Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced StudyDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)Goethe University FrankfurtUniversity of Bayreuth / Africa MultipleKing's College LondonSADiLaR

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