I am pleased to announce that the panel proposal “Digital Humanities (DH) and AI in African Studies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives” submitted by Vincent Hiribarren and myself has been accepted for the 10th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS). The conference will be held in Prague in June 2025. Further details on the call for papers […]
On 18 July 2024, I had the privilege of presenting a talk titled “Islam, Algorithms, and AI” at the ZMO Summer Party. I explored the transformative impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on digital humanities research, with a particular focus on the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC). Here’s an overview of what I covered:
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On 28 June 2024, I presented a paper titled “La Collection Islam Afrique de l’Ouest : enjeux éthiques et décolonisation des humanités numériques” at the 12th International Conference on Mande Studies in Bamako, Mali, organised by the Mande Studies Association (MANSA). This presentation, part of the panel “Décoloniser l’organisation et les systèmes de connaissance //
On 25-26 March 2024, I participated in the workshop Enjeux éthiques et juridiques au diapason des données de la recherche en études aréales at the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence (France), organised by the consortium Huma-Num DISTAM (Digital Studies Africa, Asia, Middle East). I gave a presentation entitled “La Collection Islam Afrique de
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On 9 November 2023, the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) officially launched the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) in Berlin. This project, which I’m directing, is a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 6,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, photographs, and references on Islam and Muslims
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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
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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.
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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
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