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Date: Wednesday, 03/Dec/2025

9:00am
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12:00pm

Satellite Event: CAPOS Day 2
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 1.02 Conference Room (150)

The seventh annual conference of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) will coincide with the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) 2025 conference running between 2-5 December. Both conferences will take place at the Australian National University on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people in Australia’s national capital Canberra.

12:00pm
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1:00pm

DHA25 Registration
Location: Roland Wilson Building | First Floor Foyer

1:00pm
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1:30pm

Opening
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Tyne Sumner, aaDH

Welcome To Country and opening address from Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, President of aaDH.

1:30pm
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3:00pm

Grappling with AI
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
Chair: Leah Henrickson, University of Queensland

Assessing the un-assessable: approaches to AI and assessment in the humanities

Craig Bellamy

La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne

Gen AI and Alternative Assignments for Teaching the US-Sino Relationship History

Shu Wan

University at Buffalo, United States of America

Creative AI in Commercial Design: Exploring Its Cultural, Ethical, and Business Impact on Branding, Advertising, and Innovation within Marketing

So Jung Lee

UTS, Australia

Exploring Indian AI Stories

Zahra Rizvi

University of Bergen, Norway

Panel: Cultural Data: The Stories We Could Tell
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: Rachel Fensham

Join members of the Australian Cultural Data Engine project for a free-flowing session on Cultural Analytics in Australia today. What are Australia's main sources of cultural data? How can and ought they be used in research? The panellists are Prof Mitchell Whitelaw (ANU; https://mtchl.net/) and Dr Keir Winesmith (NFSA; https://keir.winesmith.co/about/). The discussion will be chaired by Prof Rachel Fensham (UoM; staff profile).

Panel: Living Labs as Digital Archipelagos
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
Chair: Kathryn Coleman, University of Melbourne

Living Labs as Digital Archipelagos: Responding to Ecological Crises through Situated and Networked Practices

Kathryn Coleman¹, Steven Devleminck², Karin Hannes³, Sarah Healy⁴, Angie Hostetler⁵, Antje Jacobs⁶

1: University of Melbourne; 2: KU Leuven, Belgium; 3: KU Leuven, Belgium; 4: University of Melbourne; 5: University of Melbourne; 6: KU Leuven, Belgium

Connecting Archives
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Tully Barnett, Adelaide University

ROCrate for a data commons

Peter Sefton², Nick Thieberger¹, Michael Falk¹

1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia

Aligning agent fields in national humanities databases

Maggie Nolan¹, Michelle Staff²

1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: The Australian National University, Australia

3:00pm
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4:00pm

Afternoon Tea + Walk
Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer

Grab a snack and make your way to the National Library of Australia for the afternoon’s keynote panel. It is a 30-40 minute walk along the lakeshore, or a 20-minute bus ride.

4:00pm
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5:00pm

Plenary Panel | Beyond Open Data
Location: National Library of Australia | Conference Room (100)
Chair: Katherine Bode, Australian National University

Dr Rose Barrowcliffe (Butchulla / Macquarie University), Dr Fiannuala Morgan (University of Melbourne) and Dr Jenny Ostini (Trove / National Library of Australia) discuss ethics and the politics of access in the age of corporate data mining.

Digital Humanities Australasia 2025

December 3-5, 2025

Australian National University Canberra

Conference Agenda