Conference Programme
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017 Pre-conference workshops |
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8:00 am |
Registration |
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9:00 am |
Welcome and orientation Venue: Arts Building – HUMARGA LABS |
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9:30 am |
Workshop #1: Glen Worthey (Stanford University Libraries): What do we talk about when we talk about DH? |
Workshop #2: Pip Willcox (Oxford University): How to create a digital edition: a beginner’s guide to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). |
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1:30 pm |
Lunch Break No lunch provided; restaurants in Ryneveld Street, and Student Centre |
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2:30 pm |
Workshop #3: Frances Gilles-Webber (Stellenbosch, Freelance): Ways to improve user experience in digital humanities interfaces. |
Workshop #4: Juan Steyn & Anelda van der Walt (North-West University) An open repository for Digital Humanity Resources in Southern Africa. |
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017 Pre-conference workshops |
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9:00 am |
Workshop #5: Christoph Meister (Hamburg University) Digital annotation and analysis of literary texts. A hands-on introduction to CATMA (www.catma.de) |
Workshop #6: Roald Eiselen (North-West University): Digital text data and automatic text processing tools for South African languages. |
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Conference Sessions Themes: |
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8:00 am |
Registration |
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8:30 am
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Welcome Prof Justus Roux, President DHASA Dr M Jokweni, Chief Director National Language Service, Department of Arts and Culture |
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9:00 am |
Keynote #1: Prof Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Australia) Future Web: Co-shaping our Identities. |
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Refreshments |
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10:30 am
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Parallel Session 1
Venue: STIAS Main Hall
LT: 20min Brink, Regina Catharina The use of ATLAS.ti in a data analysis of Afrikaans speaking children’s first form-meaning mappings.
LT: 20min van Niekerk, Tim; Le Du, Bridgitte The online adaptation of A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles.
LT: 20min Bosch, Sonja E; Griesel, Marissa (University of South Africa) African Wordnets: first steps towards use in the Digital Humanities. |
Parallel Session 2
Venue: STIAS Break Away Room
LED: 10min Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo (University of South Africa) Can Digital Approaches Serve as Catalyst for Harvesting Indigenous Knowledge?
MHA: 10min Steyn, Juan; Fourie, Heniel (North-West University) -Utilising emerging technologies to design an immersive artistic experience to create awareness about human trafficking.
CS: 10min Tempelhoff, Wilhelm Gustaf; Steyn, Juan (North-West University) Creative exploration in literature, place and technology. LT: 10min Janke, Ulrike1; Bosch, Sonja2; Calteaux, Karen3 An introduction of ISO/TC 37: Terminology and other language and content resources.
WP: 10min Botha, Lande; Van Zyl, Maryka; Pienaar, Wikus (North-West University) |
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Questions and discussions (11:40 am – 11:50 am) |
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12:00 am
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Parallel Session 3
Venue: STIAS Main Hall
LT: 20min Viehhauser, Gabriel; Barth, Florian (University of Stuttgart) Beyond Toponyms. Conceptualising space in narratives using networks and ontologies. LT: 20min van den Berg, Karien (North-West University) Validity concerns in Forensic Linguistics: computational developments as means to a greater end.
CS: 20min Virtual Keynote: Prof Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University) The Shape of Reading Venue: STIAS Main Hall |
Parallel Session 4
Venue: STIAS Break Away Room
WP: 20min du Plessis-Hay, Michèle; Steyn, Juan (North-West University) That Hideous Strength (1945): CS Lewis and Charles Williams.
WP: 20min Sindana, Daniel; Manamela, Madimetja Jonas (University of Limpopo) Orthography-based Language Modelling for Speech Recognition.
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Questions and discussion (1:00 pm – 1:10 pm) |
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1:10 pm
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Extended Lunch and Poster Session – STIAS |
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3:00 pm
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Session 5 STIAS Main Hall WP: 10min Sewchurran, Anusharani; Mdladla, Thulebona Investigating the nature of public discourse in the #feesmustfall campaign
LT: 20min Calteaux, Karen; Titmus, Nina; De Wet, Febe (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
LT: 20min Beukes, Vernita (Stellenbosch University) |
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Questions and discussion (3:50 pm – 4:00 pm) |
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4:00 pm
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Session 6 STIAS Main Hall
CS: 20min Meihuizen, Elizabeth Maria (North-West University) Using an online marking tool in developing and assessing academic literacy. CS: 20min Van Dyk, Tobie1; de Wachter, Lieve2; Verlinde, Serge2 (North-West University1, KULeuven2) Adequate and appropriate? Matters to consider for the validation of an online writing tool. |
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Questions and discussion (4:40 pm – 4:50 pm) |
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Reception at STIAS (7:00 pm – 10:30 pm) |
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Friday, 20 January 2017 |
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9:00 am
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Session 7… STIAS Main Hall.
MHA: 20min Greyling, Franci (North-West University) Digital humanities practice: Site-specific digital literature. MHA: 20min Sewchurran, Anusharani Digital and crucial exclusivities.
MHA: 20min Maritz, Lindi Helene The rioting writer: understanding fees must fall as design within Transhumanist South African Academia
LT: 20min Roux, Justus C Introducing the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)
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Questions and discussion (10:20 am – 10:30 am) |
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Refreshments |
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11:00 am
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Session 8 STIAS Main Hall Chair: Attie de Lange
MHA: 20min McNulty, Grant
MHA: 20min Escobar Varela, Miguel (National University of Singapore) Contextualization Tools for Digital Archives. LED: 20min Van Deventer, Kirchner; Coetzee, Anneke (North-West University) – |
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Questions and discussion (12:00 – 12:10 pm) |
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12:10 pm
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LED: 20min Matlhako,M. Mamadi; Ajibade, Patrick (University of Fort Hare)
LED: 20min Carstens, Antenie (National Library of South Africa) |
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Questions and discussion (12:40 – 12:50) |
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Lunch (1:00 pm – 1:45 pm) |
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1:45pm |
General Meeting of DHASA (All participants welcome) |
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2:30 pm |
Session 9: Panel Discussion |
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3:15pm |
Session 10: Keynote Chair: Karen Calteaux Willcox, Pip (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford) Imagining Ada Lovelace: Creative computing and experimental humanities |
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Closure (4:15 pm – 4:30 pm) |
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