AELAIWC2023 is the third annual conference of the African Electronic Literature Alliance and African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI). It was initiated in 2021 by Mr. Yohanna Joseph Waliya from the University of Calabar, Nigeria in collaboration with Prof. Mourad El Fhali from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco, Prof. Richard O. Ajah from the University of Uyo, Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies from the Centre for digital Humanities University of Lagos, and Prof. Abdelmoumin El Azouzi, also from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. 

This year conference and workshop will digress from the normal African Electronic Literature to sensitize scholars and artists on the Digital Humanities and interdisciplinary scholarship. 

Digital Humanities (DH) is the most recognized buzzword today in the multidisciplinary scholarship in the world that assembles disciplines such as arts, humanities, social sciences, computer science, new media studies, artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. It builds on amplifying multisectoral methodologies and collaborations, harnessing digital infrastructures and tools into humanistic as well as artistic studies. In other words, DH employs computer, artificial intelligence (AI), deep leaning (DL), machine learning (ML), and recently Large Language Models (LLMs) as methods and tools for investigation in the arts and humanities.'

The budding DH community in Africa has made frantic efforts through collaborations in the area of capacity building and sensitization of African scholars. Summer schools, conferences, sensitization workshops among others have been used to train African scholars in DH scholarship. CEDHUL-Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos’ Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities (LSSDH), South African Center for Digital Language Resource (SADiLAR) and the newly established Institute of Digital Humanities in Francophone Africa (InHuNum-Af) in University of Yaoundé, the Digital Humanities Unit of the Faculty of Arts (DHuFArts),University of Uyo,  and African Electronic Literature Alliance and African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI) have made great efforts recently in Africa to close the gap in the application of computational turn for research and development in the arts and humanities through provisions of the capacity building opportunities. 

Despite impressive moves from these capacity building initiatives, DH scholarship is not receiving institutional supports from many African universities and consequently, many humanities and arts scholars are cut off from exposures to digital humanities scholarship and its enormous benefits to individual scholars and institutions. 

To fill this gap, the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, in collaboration with the African Electronic Literature Alliance and African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI), partnering with the Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos (CEDHUL), the Digital Humanities Unit of the Faculty of Arts (DHuFArts), University of Uyo organizes a four-day training workshop and conference for national and international scholars thematized  “Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Scholarship”. 

This year’s theme is crafted to foster inclusivity, heterogeneity and participation. The workshop/conference will be hybrid and multilingual as usual.

Therefore, the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) organizes the 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023)
 
Theme: Digital Humanities & Interdisciplinary Scholarship 
Date: 22nd-25th November 2023.
Venue: University of Calabar International Conference Centre
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Daily

Conference Nature: Hybrid

How to participate
Attendance fees:

Non-Member of the University of Calabar: N 20, 000 only.

University of Calabar Staff: N 15, 000 only

Students at all levels: N10, 000 only 

[First City Monument Bank |Account name:  Faculty of Arts Conferences & Workshops | Account Number: 2001906122] before filling the Google form shared. No one will be allowed access to the zoom links and conference hall without evidence of payment. Screen shoot your receipt and present it as ticket for meal, workshop and conference sessions.

Materials for the Conference: You need to bring your laptops and power cable for practical sessions.
This conference is made for workshops, lectures and trainings only not paper presentation by the participants.
Registration Deadline for onsite participation: 15th November 2023.
Registration Deadline for online participation: 21st November 2023.
NB: If you want to publish what you’ve learned at the conference later, please consider sending it first to Multilingual African Digital Semiotics & E-lit Journal (MADSEJ): https://madsej.africanelit.org