Call for Papers: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies Workshop

Deadline: 30 April 2026

Call for papers for a workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies, focusing on sustainable and equitable practices, to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

A DFG Programme Point Sud Workshop on ‘Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices’ will be held from 21–24 September 2026 at STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

The workshop invites submissions for individual papers (20-minute presentations) on the integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) in African Studies. The event aims to foster North–South and South–South dialogue at the intersection of African epistemologies and digital methods.

• Thematic axes include transforming research methods through AI and digital tools, building sustainable research infrastructures from African perspectives, and centring African knowledge systems in digital research design.
• Submissions should be emailed to the convenors by 30 April 2026.
• The workshop will operate bilingually in English and French, with recent advances in AI speech recognition and machine translation enabling near-real-time captioning.
• Selected papers will be published as a special issue in the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), subject to peer review.

For more information and submission guidelines, visit https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026.

Tags: Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, African Studies, Sustainable Research, Equitable Practices