Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 02/Dec/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 12:30pm |
Satellite Event: AI4LAM Meetup Location: National Museum of Australia | Peninsula Room The AI4LAM community are invited to a professional meetup (places in person and online) hosted at the National Museum of Australia in the Peninsula room. The aim is to peer network and share work developing or experimenting with AI/ML and applying that to cultural heritage or humanities and arts digital collections and data. |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Satellite Event: CAPOS Day 1 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. |
| Date: Wednesday, 03/Dec/2025 | ||||
| 9:00am - 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. |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
DHA25 Registration Location: Roland Wilson Building | First Floor Foyer |
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| 1:00pm - 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. |
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| 1:30pm - 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 La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne Gen AI and Alternative Assignments for Teaching the US-Sino Relationship History 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 UTS, Australia Exploring Indian AI Stories 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 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 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia Aligning agent fields in national humanities databases 1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: The Australian National University, Australia |
| 3:00pm - 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. |
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| 4:00pm - 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. |
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| Date: Thursday, 04/Dec/2025 | ||||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
DHA25 Registration Location: Roland Wilson Building | First Floor Foyer |
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| 9:30am - 11:00am |
Harnessing AI Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Chair: Craig Bellamy, La Trobe University ATLAS: Enabling Open Methods and Technical Transparency in AI 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 Systemik Solutions, Australia |
Digital Places I Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Chair: David Charles Goodman, University of Melbourne Mapping the places mentioned in stage dialogue University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia Linking up the islands of Greek myth Macquarie University, Australia |
Critical Data Studies Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Chair: Tully Barnett, Adelaide University Fail to understand your data, and your analyses will fail 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 State Library of Western Australia, Australia The Archaeology of the Archive in a Digital Age: Lessons from Tasmania University of New England, Australia |
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| 9:30am - 12:30pm |
LDaCA Workshop: Get Started with Federal Hansard Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30) Parliamentary bodies around the world have been publishing transcriptions of their proceedings for decades or even centuries. This workshop aims to provide a starting point for working with these transcribed proceedings, including evaluating how they might (and might not!) be useful for your research. |
Anticodians Workshop Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.10 Lady Wilson Room (20) Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne The Anticodians Present… Code Critique 1: University of Melbourne; 2: Australian National University; 3: University of Queensland |
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| 11:00am - 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 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) Chair: Amanda Lawrence, RMIT UNIVERSITY Digital archives of drawings, cartoons and comics as (trans)national history University of Adelaide, Australia Singing the News: Digital curation of news ballads using Omeka S Australian National University, Australia Subcultural Islands in the Net Australian National University, Australia |
Embodied Archives I Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Chair: Asti SHERRING, National Museum of Australia Interactive Digital Maps for Public History and Engagement 1: University of Newcastle, Australia; 2: Flinders University, Australia; 3: University of Melbourne, Australia; 4: Edith Cowan University, Australia Comprehension Challenges Among Marginalized Populations in Online Environmental Surveys: A Multi-method Approach 1: Australian National Univerisity Australia; 2: Tilburg University, the Netherlands Digital Futurisms and Speculative Ethics The University of Melbourne, Australia |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Enriching the Ecosystem: LDaCA and DH in Australia Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30) Join members of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) to discuss the ethical and sustainable collection and preservation of language data. |
Distant Reading I Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne Voices from the Past: A Digital Exploration of Australian World War I Diaries The University of Adelaide, Australia Homo Calculans: The computerisation of the Human Sciences, 1950s-60s University of Melbourne, Australia PROGRAMMING "JOYCEWARE": How poststructuralism invigorates digital analysis of Ulysses University of Melbourne, Australia |
Making and Breaking Digital Texts I Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Chair: Maggie Nolan, University of Queensland Democratising historical research with AI and vector search: a case study of the Australian Joint Copying Project University of Melbourne, Australia Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling in praxis Indian Institute of Technology, India Bridging Data Islands: Contextual Digital Practices for Diasporic and Embodied Archives Australian National University, Australia EREA: Enhanced Research Exploration and Analysis The Australian National University, Australia |
Embodied Archives II Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Chair: Paul Longley Arthur, Edith Cowan University Authenticity at the crossroads : A case study of Luba coiffures as texts and contexts using 3D storytelling Princeton University, United States of America Transmission: preserving and communicating the performance heritage of the Norman Hetherington Collection using embodied and immersive design methods 1: National Museum of Australia, Australia; 2: University of New South Wales iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Afternoon Tea Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer |
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| 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
Keynote Address | Archipelagos or Empires? Narrative Colonialism in Generative AI Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette Chair: Tyne Sumner, aaDH Professor Jill Walker Rettberg, Professor of Digital Culture & Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen |
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| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Reception Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Courtyard Join the conference for canapés sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons. |
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| Date: Friday, 05/Dec/2025 | ||||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
DHA25 Registration Location: Roland Wilson Building | First Floor Foyer |
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| 9:30am - 11:00am |
Textual Generation Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Chair: Leah Henrickson, University of Queensland (Self-)Directed Attention: Towards an Account of Attentional Structures in Original and AI-Generated Emily Dickinson Poems La Trobe University, Australia Generating AI Creative Work from Poetry about Algorithms Australian National University, Australia The Robot in the Room (The Novel as Cyborg Creation) 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: KU Leuven, Belgium |
Digital Spatial Memories Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne Digital Spatial Memories 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
Models of Collaboration Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Chair: Jenny Ostini, National Library of Australia The Delicate Art of Conversation: Reflective Co-Creation with AI in a Time of Pedagogical Change University of New England, Australia Trust and identity for research and higher education: Connecting and Protecting Australian Research through a Trust Framework 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 University of Melbourne, Australia |
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| 9:30am - 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 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 University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
AI Co-Creativity or -Critique? Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Chair: James Smithies, ANU Tidal Becomings: Drifting, Resisting, and Emerging with Technology Monash University, Australia Misbehaving by Design: Co-Creating AI Literacy Through Critical Making with Libraries University of Technology Sydney, Australia Another Eye, An Other “I”: Re-viewing AI Use as Collaborative Critique via the Distant Viewing Toolkit The Australian National University, Australia |
Making and Breaking Digital Texts II Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Chair: Mary Filsell, ARDC ChatGPT as Narrator: Is it reliable? Deakin University, Australia Using digital archives to produce a cultural history of Australian bankruptcy law University of Melbourne, Australia Mapping the Journeys of Australian World War I Soldiers using Named Entity Recognition The University of Adelaide, Australia Reading the Analytical Engine: Ada Lovelace as Close-Reading Critic of the Digital Page 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 1: UNSW Sydney; 2: Flinders University, Australia |
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| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer |
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| 1:00pm - 1:30pm |
Annual General Meeting of the aaDH Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette Members of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities are invited to attend the association's Annual General Meeting. Other delegates may continue to enjoy their lunch. |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Keynote Address | Speculative Databases: Resisting Techno-Inevitability in the Age of AI Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette Chair: Tully Barnett, Adelaide University Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Nyungar technologist, writer & digital rights activist, Digital Rights Watch, Australia |
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| 2:30pm - 2:45pm |
Comfort Break Return to the Sir Roland Wilson Building for the final sessions. |
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| 2:45pm - 4:15pm |
Panel: Reframing AI as Method, Mirror, and Mediator Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Chair: Mel Mistica, The University of Melbourne Digital Humanities Through a Glass Darkly: Reframing AI as Method, Mirror, and Mediator 1: Australian National University, Australia; 2: The University of Melbourne, Australia |
Distant Reading II Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30) Chair: Katherine Bode, Australian National University Creating and analysing audiobook data on AustLit: Bibliographic data and cultural significance 1: Australian National University, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia Hacking the Hansard: A critically informed approach to digital heritage archival work 1: University of Queensland; 2: Queensland University of Technology |
Digital Places II Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Chair: Mary Filsell, ARDC Everyday Narratives of Sacred Space: Reframing Islamic Urban Heritage through Google POI in Java The Australian National University, Australia Same data, different stories: How different maps can change the data narrative University of Melbourne, Australia |
Platform Politics Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne New tools and methods for digital platform observability RMIT UNIVERSITY, Australia “We Think You’ll Like it Here”. A virtual island created from places that show me ads on Google Maps. Queensland University of Technology, Australia Embodied Devotion Online: Virtual Darshan and Digital Pilgrimage in Post-Pandemic India University of Delhi, India TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu: Transcultural Frictions and Digital Territoriality in a Platform Migration Event university of technology sydney, Australia |
| 4:15pm - 5:00pm |
Closing + Award Presentation Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) Presentation of the John Burrows Award for best paper by an early career researcher, followed by closing remarks. |
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