Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 02/Dec/2025
9:00am
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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
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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
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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)
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)
 

Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Craig Bellamy

La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Shu Wan

University at Buffalo, United States of America




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

So Jung Lee

UTS, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

Exploring Indian AI Stories

Zahra Rizvi

University of Bergen, Norway

Panel: The Australian Cultural Data Engine
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
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?
Panel: Living Labs as Digital Archipelagos
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
 

Panel presentation (90 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Geerd De Ceulaerde

University of Antwerp, Belgium




Long papers (20 minutes)

ROCrate for a data commons

Peter Sefton2, Nick Thieberger1, Michael Falk1

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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
Keynote Panel at the National Library of Australia
Location: National Library of Australia | Conference Room (100)
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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

AI Integration - Researcher Workbenches

Ian McCrabb

Systemik Solutions, Australia

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

Long papers (20 minutes)

Mapping the places mentioned in stage dialogue

Hugh Craig

University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

Linking up the islands of Greek myth

Greta Hawes

Macquarie University, Australia

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

Long papers (20 minutes)

Fail to understand your data, and your analyses will fail

Karen Thompson

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Workshop (half day)

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)
 

Panel presentation (90 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Aaron Humphrey

University of Adelaide, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Julianne Bell, Una McIlvenna

Australian National University, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

Subcultural Islands in the Net

Gavin Findlay

Australian National University, Australia

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

Short Paper (10 minutes)

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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Short Paper (10 minutes)

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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling in praxis

Preetha Mukherjee

Indian Institute of Technology, India




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Jingdan Zhang

Australian National University, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Jasper Harrington

University of Melbourne, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

EREA: Enhanced Research Exploration and Analysis

Ruibiao Zhu

The Australian National University, Australia

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

Long papers (20 minutes)

Augmenting 3D Digital Culture in an Era of Digital Inhumanities

Erik Champion

University of South Australia, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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.
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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Judith Bishop

La Trobe University, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

Generating AI Creative Work from Poetry about Algorithms

Lucy Neave

Australian National University, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Panel presentation (90 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Fiona McDonald

University of New England, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Workshop (half day)

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)
 

Workshop (half day)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

Tidal Becomings: Drifting, Resisting, and Emerging with Technology

Wendy Yvonne Ellerton

Monash University, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Short Paper (10 minutes)

ChatGPT as Narrator: Is it reliable?

Jackson Payne

Deakin University, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Lucie O'Brien

University of Melbourne, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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)
 

Panel presentation (90 minutes)

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)
 

Panel presentation (90 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Long papers (20 minutes)

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

Karina Pradinie Tucunan

The Australian National University, Australia




Long papers (20 minutes)

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)
 

Short Paper (10 minutes)

New tools and methods for digital platform observability

Amanda Lawrence

RMIT UNIVERSITY, Australia




Short Paper (10 minutes)

“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




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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

Bhavya Rattan, Prof. Ujjwal Jana

University of Delhi, India




Short Paper (10 minutes)

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)