The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa. Digital Humanities (DH) has evolved from an early emphasis on digitisation, text encoding, and computational assistance into a reflexive field concerned with epistemology, infrastructure, and the politics of knowledge production in digitally mediated societies (Burdick et al., 2016; Svensson, 2016). Contemporary DH scholarship increasingly interrogates not only what digital tools enable scholars to do, but how these tools shape disciplinary boundaries, scholarly labour, and claims to authority (Drucker, 2021). This shift has been accompanied by growing calls to provincialise Global North-centred DH narratives and to foreground regionally situated practices, particularly from the Global South (Risam, 2019).
