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 |
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 - 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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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 |
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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 |
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 - 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 |
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 |
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| 9:30am - 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) |
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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 |
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) |
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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 |
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 - 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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