On 17-21 July, Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies from the University of Lagos (Nigeria) visited the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies teaches English, digital cultures, and discourse studies.
Tunde Ope-Davies is the founding director and principal researcher of the Center for Digital Humanities (CEDHUL) at the same university. He is a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He has been a visiting researcher/professor at Westminster University in London, Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. Prof. Ope-Davies is also the founding president of the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN) and a member of the executive committee of the Global Outlook for Digital Humanities (GO::DH). His research interests include digital cultures, digital scholarship, new media and society, discourse studies, and sociolinguistics.
Ope-Davies’ visit led to the signing of an inter-university cooperation agreement and the planning of an intercontinental Summer School on the theme of Inclusive Humanities, set to begin in 2024.