Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 05/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
Textual Generation
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

(Self-)Directed Attention: Towards an Account of Attentional Structures in Original and AI-Generated Emily Dickinson Poems

Judith Bishop

La Trobe University, Australia



Generating AI Creative Work from Poetry about Algorithms

Lucy Neave

Australian National University, Australia



The Robot in the Room (The Novel as Cyborg Creation)

Angela Hostetler1,2

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

Digital Spatial Memories
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
 

Digital Spatial Memories

Fiannuala Morgan1, Francesca Sidoti2, Heather Ford2, Claire Loughnan1, Michael Falk1

1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Models of Collaboration
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

The Delicate Art of Conversation: Reflective Co-Creation with AI in a Time of Pedagogical Change

Fiona McDonald

University of New England, Australia



Trust and identity for research and higher education: Connecting and Protecting Australian Research through a Trust Framework

Margie Jantii1, Melroy Almeida3, Sarah Thomas2, Kerry Mora4

1: Australian Access Federation (AAF), Australia; 2: Australian Access Federation (AAF), Australia; 3: Australian Access Federation (AAF), Australia; 4: Australian Access Federation (AAF), Australia



HADES: A place for connecting digital humanities and data-driven research

Amanda Belton, Emily Fitzgerald, Marlaina Read, Aleksandra Michalewicz

University of Melbourne, Australia

 
9:30am
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12:30pm
Human-Centred AI Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.10 Lady Wilson Room (20)
 

Human-Centered AI for Urban Heritage Gamification: A participatory board game towards supporting decision-making on Climate Change

Mohamed W. Fareed, Scott Hawken

School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia

Mapping Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
 

Mapping for Humanities Projects

Hugh Craig

University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia

11:00am
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12:30pm
AI Co-Creativity or -Critique?
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

Tidal Becomings: Drifting, Resisting, and Emerging with Technology

Wendy Yvonne Ellerton

Monash University, Australia



Misbehaving by Design: Co-Creating AI Literacy Through Critical Making with Libraries

Andrew Burrell, Monica Monin, Heather Ford, Suneel Jethani, Bhuva Narayan

University of Technology Sydney, Australia



Another Eye, An Other “I”: Re-viewing AI Use as Collaborative Critique via the Distant Viewing Toolkit

Dylan Chng

The Australian National University, Australia

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

ChatGPT as Narrator: Is it reliable?

Jackson Payne

Deakin University, Australia



Using digital archives to produce a cultural history of Australian bankruptcy law

Lucie O'Brien

University of Melbourne, Australia



Mapping the Journeys of Australian World War I Soldiers using Named Entity Recognition

Ashley Dennis-Henderson, Matthew Roughan, Jonathan Tuke

The University of Adelaide, Australia



Reading the Analytical Engine: Ada Lovelace as Close-Reading Critic of the Digital Page

Liliana Mansergh

University of Melbourne, Australia

Panel: From Database to Infrastructure
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

From Database to Infrastructure: the Australian Creative Histories and Futures project

Bryoni Trezise1, Caroline Wake1, Tully Barnett2, Scott East1, Chris Hay2, Benjamin Laird2

1: UNSW Sydney; 2: Flinders University, Australia

 
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Keynote Address: Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker
Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette
2:30pm
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2:45pm
Comfort Break
Return to the Sir Roland Wilson Building for the final sessions.
2:45pm
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4:15pm
Panel: Reframing AI as Method, Mirror, and Mediator
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
 

Digital Humanities Through a Glass Darkly: Reframing AI as Method, Mirror, and Mediator

Katherine Bode1, Eduard Hovy2, James Smithies1, Kathryn Coleman2, Meladel Mistica2

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

Distant Reading II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
 

Creating and analysing audiobook data on AustLit: Bibliographic data and cultural significance

Millicent Weber1, Maggie Nolan2

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



Hacking the Hansard: A critically informed approach to digital heritage archival work

Sam Hames1, Naomi Barnes2

1: University of Queensland; 2: Queensland University of Technology

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

Everyday Narratives of Sacred Space: Reframing Islamic Urban Heritage through Google POI in Java

Karina Pradinie Tucunan

The Australian National University, Australia



Same data, different stories: How different maps can change the data narrative

Emily Fitzgerald

University of Melbourne, Australia

Platform Politics
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

New tools and methods for digital platform observability

Amanda Lawrence

RMIT UNIVERSITY, Australia



“We Think You’ll Like it Here”. A virtual island created from places that show me ads on Google Maps.

Brett Tweedie

Queensland University of Technology, Australia



Embodied Devotion Online: Virtual Darshan and Digital Pilgrimage in Post-Pandemic India

Bhavya Rattan, Prof. Ujjwal Jana

University of Delhi, India



TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu: Transcultural Frictions and Digital Territoriality in a Platform Migration Event

jiaxin yang

university of technology sydney, Australia

4:15pm
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5:00pm
Closing
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)