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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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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)

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)
Chair: Tyne Sumner, aaDH

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)
Chair: Leah Henrickson, University of Queensland

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

Connecting Archives
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Tully Barnett, Adelaide University

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

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.

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)
Chair: Craig Bellamy, La Trobe University

Digital Places I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: David Charles Goodman, University of Melbourne

Critical Data Studies
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Tully Barnett, Adelaide University

9:30am
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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

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)
Chair: Amanda Lawrence, RMIT UNIVERSITY

Embodied Archives I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Asti SHERRING, National Museum of 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

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

Making and Breaking Digital Texts I
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: Maggie Nolan, University of Queensland

Embodied Archives II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Paul Longley Arthur, Edith Cowan University

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 | 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

4:30pm
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5:00pm

Reception
Location: National Film and Sound Archive | Courtyard

Join the conference for canapés sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons.

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)
Chair: Leah Henrickson, University of Queensland

Digital Spatial Memories
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne

Models of Collaboration
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Jenny Ostini, National Library of Australia

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)
Chair: James Smithies, ANU

Making and Breaking Digital Texts II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: Mary Filsell, ARDC

Panel: From Database to Infrastructure
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)

12:30pm
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1:00pm

Lunch
Location: Roland Wilson Building | Third Floor Foyer

1:00pm
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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.

1:30pm
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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

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)
Chair: Mel Mistica, The University of Melbourne

Distant Reading II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30)
Chair: Katherine Bode, Australian National University

Digital Places II
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30)
Chair: Mary Filsell, ARDC

Platform Politics
Location: Roland Wilson Building | 2.02 Theatrette (106)
Chair: Michael Falk, University of Melbourne

4:15pm
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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.