ICDHAN-2021: 1st International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos Lagos, Nigeria, March 11-13, 2021

TECHNOLOGY, CULTURES, POLITICS AND SOCIAL RE-ENGINEERING:

RECONFIGURING THE  HUMAN SCIENCES IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION

The 1st International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association ofNigeria (ICDHAN-2021), which is a post-Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities2021 event, is poised at bridging the gap in digital humanities scholarship in Africa byproviding scholars in the world and Africa with scholarly opportunities to discuss andinterrogate different areas of DH scholarship as it touches the theme of the conferencewhich is “Technology, Cultures, Politics and Social Re-Engineering: Reconfiguring the Human Sciences in the Age of Digital Revolution”

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts, which should be between 150 – 500 words long, are invited from the themes and sub-themes. Presentations and discussions are supposed to address such issues as related to digital humanities discourse.

Themes & Sub-themes

• Human Sciences and Technology
• Digital literacies and culture
• African Cultures in the Age of Technology
• Discourse, Communication and Smart Cities
• Digitisation of Cultural Artifacts/Digital Archival
• Digital Scholarship & Library Sciences
• Knowledge-based Society and Human Sciences
• Indigenous Languages & Digital Technology
• Technology & Entrepreneurial Promotion
• Digital Technology & Social Capital
• Identity Creation on Online Platforms
• Social Media & Nation Building
• Social Media, Hate Speech and Fake News
• Mediated Communication and Digital Cultures
• Digital Democracy & Good Governance
• Digital Literature and Media
• Natural Language Processing
• Digital Storytelling and African literature
• Philosophical discourse, culture and digital technology
• Computer-Assisted Literary Analysis (CALA) and cultural studies
• Digital musicology and cultural re-engineering
• Social media and COVID-19 discourse
• Social advocacy and new media technologies
• Other related areas of possible DH conversations.

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies
• Dr. Richard Oko Ajah
• Dr. Ayodele James Akinola
• Dr. Solomon Azumurana

Organizing committee

• Dr. Richard Oko Ajah
• Dr. Ayodele James Akinola
• Dr Kofo Adedeji
• Augustine Farinola
• Modupe Roseline Agunbiade
• Waliya Yohanna
• Ayodeji Adedara

Venue

Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@dhnigeria.org or nigeriadh@gmail.com.