About Us
Reconfiguring and retooling
research in the human sciences
The Value of our Profile
The CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
(CEDHUL) was established in response to the yawning gap in the
field of digital humanities research and learning in Africa
and the growing need to retool scholars and researchers in the
human sciences.
We are the pioneers and foremost interdisciplinary research
and academic unit in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa focusing
on research and scholarship in the field of digital
humanities. Our main goal is to promote the use of computer
methodologies and digital tools for innovative
interdisciplinary research projects and studies in the
humanities and liberal sciences such as history, linguistics,
literature, philosophy, religion, law, economics, political
science and other disciplines of the humanities and social
sciences.
We provide a digital research environment (DRE) that fosters
research and studies in technology-driven approaches that aid
the investigation of humanistic phenomena while allowing for
the integration of insight anchored on computer technologies
into the realities and possibilities of human society.
OUR ACTIVITIES
We organise summer schools, workshops, seminars and conferences
that will provide the platform to raise and equip a new
generation of scholars and researchers in the humanities and
social sciences. Our activities will equally generate ideas,
demonstrate the usefulness of computer methodologies to
humanistic studies and disseminate research outcomes to benefit
the larger society.
It is hoped that the Centre will soon emerge as an
intellectually stimulating international research hub that
will encourage scholars and researchers to investigate the
different ways in which digital technologies, web-based
resources and ICT are opening new ways for research projects
in languages, literature, culture, history, philosophy,
creative arts and media studies, as well as in the personal
and social experiences of humans in modern society. As such,
CEDHUL hopes to build the capacity of graduates of humanities
with additional skills to compete successfully in the
global/digital job market.
Events
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At the Conference on "Digital English Worldwide: Focus on Africa and Beyond" held at the University of Technology, Chemnitz, July 14-15, 2023
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