Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 04/Dec/2025
9:00am
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9:30am
DHA25 Registration
Location: Roland Wilson Building | First Floor Foyer
9:30am
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11:00am
Harnessing AI
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

ATLAS: Enabling Open Methods and Technical Transparency in AI

James Smithies1, Glen Berman1, Karaitiana Taiuru3, Roxanne Missingham1, Barbara McGillivray2, Martin Spychal5, John Moore4

1: Australian National University; 2: King's College London; 3: Taiuru & Associates Ltd; 4: The National Archives; 5: History of Parliament Online



AI Integration - Researcher Workbenches

Ian McCrabb

Systemik Solutions, Australia

Digital Places I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
 

Mapping the places mentioned in stage dialogue

Hugh Craig

University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia



Linking up the islands of Greek myth

Greta Hawes

Macquarie University, Australia

Critical Data Studies
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

Fail to understand your data, and your analyses will fail

Karen Thompson

Melbourne Data Analytic Platform (MDAP), University of Melbourne, Australia



Researcher in Residence: Facilitating Exploratory Engagement with the Digitised AV Collections at the State Library of Western Australia

Catherine Belcher, Dean Chan, Kate Gregory

State Library of Western Australia, Australia



The Archaeology of the Archive in a Digital Age: Lessons from Tasmania

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

University of New England, Australia

 
9:30am
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12:30pm
Language Data Commons of Australia: Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
Anticodians Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.10 Lady Wilson Room (20)
 

The Anticodians Present… Code Critique

Michael Falk1, Katherine Bode2, Emily Fitzgerald1, Leah Henrickson3, Dylan Chng2

1: University of Melbourne; 2: Australian National University; 3: University of Queensland

11:00am
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12:30pm
Panel: Relational Methodologies in AI Co-Creation
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

Islands in a Resonant Sea: Relational Methodologies in AI Co-Creation

Kathryn Coleman1, Angela Hostetler1,2, Katerina Undo1,2, Wendy Ellerton3, Cory Dal Ponte1

1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: KU Leuven, Belgium; 3: Monash University, Australia

Databasing as Research
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
 

Digital archives of drawings, cartoons and comics as (trans)national history

Aaron Humphrey

University of Adelaide, Australia



Singing the News: Digital curation of news ballads using Omeka S

Julianne Bell, Una McIlvenna

Australian National University, Australia



Subcultural Islands in the Net

Gavin Findlay

Australian National University, Australia

Embodied Archives I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

Interactive Digital Maps for Public History and Engagement

Catharine Coleborne1, Penny Edmonds2, Andrew May3, Hugh Craig1, Bill Pascoe3, Paul Arthur4

1: University of Newcastle, Australia; 2: Flinders University, Australia; 3: University of Melbourne, Australia; 4: Edith Cowan University, Australia



Let Me Feel The Texture: An Attempt to Metadata of Materiality in Queer Indonesia Archives

Petrus Christologus Susanto Sidhi Vhisatya

University of Technology Sydney, Australia



Comprehension Challenges Among Marginalized Populations in Online Environmental Surveys: A Multi-method Approach

Jamie Jamiela Piroe1,2, Ruud Koolen2

1: Australian National Univerisity Australia; 2: Tilburg University, the Netherlands



Digital Futurisms and Speculative Ethics

Kameron Lai

The University of Melbourne, Australia

 
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer
1:30pm
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3:00pm
Language Data Commons of Australia: Panel
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
Distant Reading I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

Voices from the Past: A Digital Exploration of Australian World War I Diaries

Ashley Dennis-Henderson, Matthew Roughan, Jonathan Tuke

The University of Adelaide, Australia



Homo Calculans: The computerisation of the Human Sciences, 1950s-60s

Michael Falk, Niles Zhao

University of Melbourne, Australia

Making and Breaking Digital Texts I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
 

Democratising historical research with AI and vector search: a case study of the Australian Joint Copying Project

David Charles Goodman, Daniel Roy Russo-Batterham

University of Melbourne, Australia



Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling in praxis

Preetha Mukherjee

Indian Institute of Technology, India



Bridging Data Islands: Contextual Digital Practices for Diasporic and Embodied Archives

Jingdan Zhang

Australian National University, Australia



PROGRAMMING "JOYCEWARE": How poststructuralism invigorates digital analysis of Ulysses

Jasper Harrington

University of Melbourne, Australia



EREA: Enhanced Research Exploration and Analysis

Ruibiao Zhu

The Australian National University, Australia

Embodied Archives II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

Augmenting 3D Digital Culture in an Era of Digital Inhumanities

Erik Champion

University of South Australia, Australia



Authenticity at the crossroads : A case study of Luba coiffures as texts and contexts using 3D storytelling

Murielle Sandra Tiako Djomatchoua

Princeton University, United States of America



Transmission: preserving and communicating the performance heritage of the Norman Hetherington Collection using embodied and immersive design methods

Asti SHERRING1, Andrew Yip2, Martha Sear1, Candice Cranmer1

1: National Museum of Australia, Australia; 2: University of New South Wales iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research

3:00pm
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3:30pm
Afternoon Tea
Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer
3:30pm
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4:30pm
Keynote Address: Prof Jill Rettberg
Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette
4:30pm
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5:00pm
Reception
Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Courtyard
Join the conference for drinks and canapés after Prof Rettberg's keynote address.