Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Date: Wednesday, 03/Dec/2025
1:00pm
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1:30pm
Opening
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Welcome To Country and opening address from Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, President of aaDH.
1:30pm
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3:00pm
Connecting Archives
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 

Bridging Institutional Archipelagos: Convergence of Archives and Museums for Sustainable Development in Local Communities

Geerd De Ceulaerde

University of Antwerp, Belgium



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

Date: Thursday, 04/Dec/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
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

11:00am
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12:30pm
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

1:30pm
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3:00pm
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

Date: Friday, 05/Dec/2025
9:30am
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11:00am
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

11:00am
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12:30pm
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

2:45pm
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4:15pm
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)