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) 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) Short Paper (10 minutes) Assessing the un-assessable: approaches to AI and assessment in the humanities La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne Short Paper (10 minutes) Gen AI and Alternative Assignments for Teaching the US-Sino Relationship History 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 UTS, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Exploring Indian AI Stories 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 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 University of Antwerp, Belgium Long papers (20 minutes) ROCrate for a data commons 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) 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 |
Keynote Panel at the National Library of Australia Location: National Library of Australia | Conference Room (100) |
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) Long papers (20 minutes) 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 Long papers (20 minutes) AI Integration - Researcher Workbenches 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 University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Linking up the islands of Greek myth 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 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 State Library of Western Australia, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) 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 |
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 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) Panel presentation (90 minutes) 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) Long papers (20 minutes) Digital archives of drawings, cartoons and comics as (trans)national history University of Adelaide, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Singing the News: Digital curation of news ballads using Omeka S Australian National University, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Subcultural Islands in the Net 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 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 University of Technology Sydney, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Comprehension Challenges Among Marginalized Populations in Online Environmental Surveys: A Multi-method Approach 1: Australian National Univerisity Australia; 2: Tilburg University, the Netherlands Short Paper (10 minutes) 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 |
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 The University of Adelaide, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Homo Calculans: The computerisation of the Human Sciences, 1950s-60s 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 University of Melbourne, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling in praxis Indian Institute of Technology, India Short Paper (10 minutes) Bridging Data Islands: Contextual Digital Practices for Diasporic and Embodied Archives Australian National University, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) PROGRAMMING "JOYCEWARE": How poststructuralism invigorates digital analysis of Ulysses University of Melbourne, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) EREA: Enhanced Research Exploration and Analysis 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 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 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 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: Prof Jill Rettberg Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette |
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4:30pm - 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 - 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) Long papers (20 minutes) (Self-)Directed Attention: Towards an Account of Attentional Structures in Original and AI-Generated Emily Dickinson Poems La Trobe University, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Generating AI Creative Work from Poetry about Algorithms Australian National University, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) 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) Panel presentation (90 minutes) 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) Long papers (20 minutes) The Delicate Art of Conversation: Reflective Co-Creation with AI in a Time of Pedagogical Change 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 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 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) Workshop (half day) 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) Workshop (half day) 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) Long papers (20 minutes) Tidal Becomings: Drifting, Resisting, and Emerging with Technology Monash University, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) Misbehaving by Design: Co-Creating AI Literacy Through Critical Making with Libraries 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 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? Deakin University, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Using digital archives to produce a cultural history of Australian bankruptcy law University of Melbourne, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Mapping the Journeys of Australian World War I Soldiers using Named Entity Recognition The University of Adelaide, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) 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) Panel presentation (90 minutes) From Database to Infrastructure: the Australian Creative Histories and Futures project 1: UNSW Sydney; 2: Flinders University, Australia |
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12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Keynote Address: Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Theatrette |
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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) Panel presentation (90 minutes) 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) Long papers (20 minutes) Creating and analysing audiobook data on AustLit: Bibliographic data and cultural significance 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 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 The Australian National University, Australia Long papers (20 minutes) 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) Short Paper (10 minutes) New tools and methods for digital platform observability 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. Queensland University of Technology, Australia Short Paper (10 minutes) Embodied Devotion Online: Virtual Darshan and Digital Pilgrimage in Post-Pandemic India University of Delhi, India Short Paper (10 minutes) TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu: Transcultural Frictions and Digital Territoriality in a Platform Migration Event university of technology sydney, Australia |
4:15pm - 5:00pm |
Closing Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106) |