I’m very grateful to Robert Launay for writing a review of my digital database Islam Burkina Faso Collection in the latest issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities: “The collection is an invaluable research tool for scholars in or outside Burkina Faso, offering access to material that is difficult or impossible to find outside — and …
From 27 February to 1 March 2023, I participated in the “HUJI-FUB Digital Humanities Winter School” jointly organised by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the Freie Universität Berlin in Jerusalem.
In January, I attended the EnExDi Winter School “Les humanités numériques dans les projets de recherche” at the Université de Poitiers (France). Over the course of five days, we learned the basics of digital humanities, both in terms of best practice and methodological considerations. We worked with a range of approaches and techniques, including text …
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I am honored to have received one of the two “2023 Emerging Open Scholarship Award” of the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and its partners for my work on the Islam Burkina Faso Collection. I would especially like to thank Perry Collins, the LibraryPress@UF, the Sahel Research Group and my current institution, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient …
On September 16, I presented my digital humanities project Islam Burkina Faso Collection at the ZMO Open Day.
On 15 September, together with Perry Collins, we presented a paper entitled “Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship” for the panel on “Digital Humanities” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) Conference at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Abstract Despite the growing popularity of digital humanities, a limited number of initiatives related …
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In August 2022, I attended the 12th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”, hosted by the University of Leipzig and organised by Elisabeth Burr in collaboration with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig (FDHL). The two-week intensive programme consisted of 36 hours of workshops, four teaser sessions, six lectures, four project presentations and …
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