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)
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)
Connecting Archives
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
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)
Digital Places I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Critical Data Studies
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 
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)
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)
Databasing as Research
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Embodied Archives I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 
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)
Making and Breaking Digital Texts I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Embodied Archives II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
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)
Digital Spatial Memories
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Models of Collaboration
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 
9:30am
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12:30pm
Human-Centred AI Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.10 Lady Wilson Room (20)
Mapping Workshop
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
11:00am
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12:30pm
AI Co-Creativity or -Critique?
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30)
Making and Breaking Digital Texts II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Panel: From Database to Infrastructure
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
 
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)
Distant Reading II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
Digital Places II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Platform Politics
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
4:15pm
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5:00pm
Closing
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)