About
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is organizing its third conference with the theme “Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent”. The field of Digital Humanities is currently still rather underdeveloped in Southern Africa. Hence, this conference has several aims. First, to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research from the broad field of Digital Humanities. By doing so, this conference provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art of Digital Humanities especially in the Southern Africa region. This includes Digital Humanities research by people from Southern Africa or research related to the geographical area of Southern Africa.
The DHASA conference is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on all areas of Digital Humanities (including, but not limited to language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, etc.). It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific Digital Humanities community of practice.
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Simplicity as an enabler for digital humanities research in low-resource environ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Decolonising African Cultural/Historical Memory Data: A Digital Humanities Appro...
Feb 4, 2022
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Main Conference - Day 1

Morphology-based investigation of differences between spoken and written isiZulu
Feb 4, 2022
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Imagining digital queer futures through trans comics on Instagram: an autoethnog...
Feb 4, 2022
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Swearing in South Africa: Multidisciplinary research on language taboos
Feb 4, 2022
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Modelling Multiple Representations in an OWL Ontology
Feb 4, 2022
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Open data and the digital humanities in the time of COVID-19
Feb 4, 2022
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Main Conference - Day 2

PHAROS: The International Consortium of Photo Archives
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Finding topic boundaries in literary text
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A critique on the impacts of successful acceptance of Human language technology:...
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Localisation of digital terminology development programs in Indigenous South Afr...
Feb 4, 2022
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Analyzing conspiracies in context: a mix-methods approach to move beyond the dic...
Feb 4, 2022
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Digital Humanities (DH) as a bridge or barrier to access
Feb 4, 2022
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If Algorithms are not Gods, what are they? Religious metaphors, power and agency...
Feb 4, 2022
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Using ordinal logistic regression to analyse self-reported usage of, and attitud...
Feb 4, 2022
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UPLOrc: A Networked, LiveCoding Laptop Orchestra based in South Africa
Feb 4, 2022
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Main Conference - Day 3

Facilitating access to South African place names and signed place names through ...
Feb 4, 2022
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A Soulful approach to AI: A comparative analysis of OpenAI’s Hide and Seek and P...
Feb 4, 2022
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Disrupting established trajectories of success: in search of alternative models ...
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Bringing DH to the masses – widening participation in digital humanities with Ga...
Feb 4, 2022
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An analysis of readability metrics on English exam texts
Feb 4, 2022
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Towards impactful Research Infrastructures: Mediating research activities
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Main Conference - Day 4

Mapping Indigenous Robben Island, the Music of the Khoekhoe and the Discovery of...
Feb 4, 2022
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Enhancing access to justice through a Speech-To-Text model: Language and technol...
Feb 4, 2022
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2nd Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages

Development of linguistically annotated parallel language resources for four Sou...
Feb 4, 2022
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Investigating the feasibility of harvesting broadcast speech data to develop res...
Feb 4, 2022
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Digitising AfrikaanEstablishing a protocol for digitalizing historical sources f...
Feb 4, 2022
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A novel method for redefining language ecology and endangerment in Nigeria – tow...
Feb 4, 2022
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Using MonoConc Pro to teach and learn lexical collocations in Xitsonga
Feb 4, 2022
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New uses for old books: Description of digitised corpora based Setswana language...
Feb 4, 2022
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Training Cross-Lingual embeddings for Setswana and Sepedi
Feb 4, 2022
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Wordsmith Tools as an Enabler for Text Analysis
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Wordsmith Tools as an Enabler for Text Analysis
Feb 4, 2022
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An Open Source System for Crowd Sourcing an African Language Short Story Corpus
Feb 4, 2022
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