Beethovenstraße 6
04107 Leipzig
Öffentliche Vorlesung
Veranstaltet im Rahmen der Europäischen Sommeruniversität in Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften „Kulturen & Technologien“
Ort: Bibliotheca Albertina, Vortragssaal
Adresse: Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig
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The field of Digital Humanities (DH) with a cursory projection might be perceived today as novelty rather than a redefinition, reconstruction, and expansion of the scope of apprehension of all genres of texts, artifacts or human recordings (manipulations) with the aid of advanced (computer-assisted statistical analysis) technological tools and methods. This interdisciplinary approach of humanities corpora management and development is geared at revealing implicit properties and unique socio-cultural traits that are hidden within native forms of human beliefs, languages,traditions, philosophies, experiences, ethno-ecological practices and general world view. The issues to be discussed are ‘what does DH mean to African humanities scholars? How do they implement DH in their research and teachings? What are the different significant ramifications of DH operationality to most of the African society and the scientific world at large?’ In this presentation, we will unveil our discussions by examining the different perspectives of DH and how the African humanities scholars manifest it in their works; how DH is implemented (the development and challenges) in fields of endangered language documentation (especially in multicultural settings, experiences e.g. in Cameroon) and how DH addresses the Africans’ needs, aspirations and development of the indigenous communities and academia. We will finalize our discussions by exposing some of the rich potentials of DH in Africa that can immensely contribute to knowledge production and the current DH debate.
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Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka was born in Mbatu-Mezam, Cameroon. She did her PhD in generative Syntax at the University of Hamburg, Germany under the sponsorship of DAAD (2001). Evelyn is currently a Full-time Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Buea, Cameroon. In her area of research interest, she has published widely in national and international journals, book chapters and books in the domains of Syntax, Applied Linguistics – documentary Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and currently in Digital Humanities her new found research interest specialty. As primary investigator in many endangered language documentation projects (progressively and simultaneously sponsored by ‘Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Stiftung Foundation’, ‘Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation (DoBeS Program)’, ‘International Centre for Research and Documentation on African Tradition and Languages (CERDOTOLA)’, University of Buea research grant and The German Embassy, Yaounde, Cameroon) specifically in the NW Region of Cameroon, she has been extensively exposed to some language, traditional artifacts and cultural corpora / data collection, management and archiving digital tools and techniques.
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