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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Gauteng, Northern Cape, Free State, and North West Universities</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">RE: INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN PIONEERING REGIONAL DIGITAL HUMANITIES EVENT</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">We are excited to invite staff and students from your university to participate in
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://dh-ignite.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><b><span style="font-family:Nunito;color:#1155cc">DH-IGNITE</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black"> from
<u>23-25 August 2023</u>. The event will be hosted at <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">the Premier Hotel OR TAMBO, Johannesburg</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">. </span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://dh-ignite.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-family:Nunito;color:#1155cc">DH-IGNITE</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black"> is a uniquely South
 African event bringing together humanities, social sciences and computational stakeholders to stimulate digital innovation. We invite students, researchers, lecturers, libraries, related service departments, and management to join the growing local digital
 humanities and computational social sciences community.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">You can read more about the experiences of past attendees on
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://dh-ignite.org/post" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-family:Nunito;color:#1155cc">our website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">DH-IGNITE is organised by
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.sadilar.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-family:Nunito;color:#1155cc">SADiLaR</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">, a national research infrastructure (RI) established
 by the Department of Science and Innovation as part of the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap programme. In 2020, SADiLaR launched
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://escalator.sadilar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-family:Nunito;color:#1155cc">ESCALATOR</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black"> to help researchers in Humanities and Social
 Sciences enhance their digital and computational skills. DH-IGNITE forms part of the ESCALATOR programme.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">The DH-IGNITE programme introduces concepts related to digital humanities and computational social sciences, highlights possibilities and resources and provides
 opportunities for participants to connect with peers. In addition, participants can exhibit their work through lightning talks.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">SADiLaR is sponsoring the full costs of the event (conference venue, day fee including tea breaks and lunch, parking, wifi, etc.). Participants are responsible
 for their own travel and accommodation. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">Please circulate the attached promotional posters. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">We’re excited to host you at DH-IGNITE, where we aim to connect communities, learn from others, and grow the impact of digital humanities! </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Anelda van der Walt</span><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Programme manager: ESCALATOR</span><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Director: Talarify</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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