Conference Agenda

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.
12:00pm - 1:00pm	DHA25 Registration Location: Roland Wilson Building \| First Floor Foyer
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.
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Grappling with AI Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Assessing the un-assessable: approaches to AI and assessment in the humanities Craig Bellamy La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne Gen AI and Alternative Assignments for Teaching the US-Sino Relationship History Shu Wan University at Buffalo, United States of America Creative AI in Commercial Design: Exploring Its Cultural, Ethical, and Business Impact on Branding, Advertising, and Innovation within Marketing So Jung Lee UTS, Australia 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) 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) Bridging Institutional Archipelagos: Convergence of Archives and Museums for Sustainable Development in Local Communities Geerd De Ceulaerde University of Antwerp, Belgium ROCrate for a data commons Peter Sefton², Nick Thieberger¹, Michael Falk¹ 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: University of Queensland, Australia Aligning agent fields in national humanities databases Maggie Nolan¹, Michelle Staff² 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.
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
9:30am - 11:00am	Harnessing AI Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) 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 AI Integration - Researcher Workbenches Ian McCrabb Systemik Solutions, Australia	Digital Places I Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) Mapping the places mentioned in stage dialogue Hugh Craig University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia Linking up the islands of Greek myth Greta Hawes Macquarie University, Australia	Critical Data Studies Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 2.02 Theatrette (106) Fail to understand your data, and your analyses will fail Karen Thompson Melbourne Data Analytic Platform (MDAP), University of Melbourne, Australia 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 The Archaeology of the Archive in a Digital Age: Lessons from Tasmania Hamish Maxwell-Stewart University of New England, Australia
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) 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 - 12:30pm	Panel: Relational Methodologies in AI Co-Creation Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Islands in a Resonant Sea: Relational Methodologies in AI Co-Creation Kathryn Coleman¹, Angela Hostetler^1,2, Katerina Undo^1,2, 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) Digital archives of drawings, cartoons and comics as (trans)national history Aaron Humphrey University of Adelaide, Australia Singing the News: Digital curation of news ballads using Omeka S Julianne Bell, Una McIlvenna Australian National University, Australia Subcultural Islands in the Net Gavin Findlay Australian National University, Australia	Embodied Archives I Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 2.02 Theatrette (106) 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 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 Comprehension Challenges Among Marginalized Populations in Online Environmental Surveys: A Multi-method Approach Jamie Jamiela Piroe^1,2, Ruud Koolen² 1: Australian National Univerisity Australia; 2: Tilburg University, the Netherlands Digital Futurisms and Speculative Ethics Kameron Lai The University of Melbourne, Australia
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: Roland Wilson Building \| Third Floor Foyer
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) 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 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) 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 Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling in praxis Preetha Mukherjee Indian Institute of Technology, India Bridging Data Islands: Contextual Digital Practices for Diasporic and Embodied Archives Jingdan Zhang Australian National University, Australia PROGRAMMING "JOYCEWARE": How poststructuralism invigorates digital analysis of Ulysses Jasper Harrington University of Melbourne, Australia EREA: Enhanced Research Exploration and Analysis Ruibiao Zhu The Australian National University, Australia	Embodied Archives II Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 2.02 Theatrette (106) Augmenting 3D Digital Culture in an Era of Digital Inhumanities Erik Champion University of South Australia, Australia 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 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 - 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea Location: Roland Wilson Building \| Third Floor Foyer
3:30pm - 4:30pm	Keynote Address: Prof Jill Rettberg Location: National Film and Sound Archive \| Theatrette
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
9:30am - 11:00am	Textual Generation Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) (Self-)Directed Attention: Towards an Account of Attentional Structures in Original and AI-Generated Emily Dickinson Poems Judith Bishop La Trobe University, Australia Generating AI Creative Work from Poetry about Algorithms Lucy Neave Australian National University, Australia The Robot in the Room (The Novel as Cyborg Creation) Angela Hostetler^1,2 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: KU Leuven, Belgium	Digital Spatial Memories Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.04 Seminar Room 3 (30) 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) The Delicate Art of Conversation: Reflective Co-Creation with AI in a Time of Pedagogical Change Fiona McDonald University of New England, Australia 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 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 - 12:30pm	Human-Centred AI Workshop Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 2.10 Lady Wilson Room (20) 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) Mapping for Humanities Projects Hugh Craig University of Newcastle (Australia), Australia
11:00am - 12:30pm	AI Co-Creativity or -Critique? Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) Tidal Becomings: Drifting, Resisting, and Emerging with Technology Wendy Yvonne Ellerton Monash University, Australia 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 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) ChatGPT as Narrator: Is it reliable? Jackson Payne Deakin University, Australia Using digital archives to produce a cultural history of Australian bankruptcy law Lucie O'Brien University of Melbourne, Australia 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 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) 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 - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: Roland Wilson Building \| Third Floor Foyer
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Keynote Address: Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker Location: National Film and Sound Archive \| Theatrette
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Comfort Break Return to the Sir Roland Wilson Building for the final sessions.
2:45pm - 4:15pm	Panel: Reframing AI as Method, Mirror, and Mediator Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 3.02 Seminar Room 1 (30) 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) 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 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) Everyday Narratives of Sacred Space: Reframing Islamic Urban Heritage through Google POI in Java Karina Pradinie Tucunan The Australian National University, Australia 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) New tools and methods for digital platform observability Amanda Lawrence RMIT UNIVERSITY, Australia “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 Embodied Devotion Online: Virtual Darshan and Digital Pilgrimage in Post-Pandemic India Bhavya Rattan, Prof. Ujjwal Jana University of Delhi, India TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu: Transcultural Frictions and Digital Territoriality in a Platform Migration Event jiaxin yang university of technology sydney, Australia
4:15pm - 5:00pm	Closing Location: Roland Wilson Building \| 2.02 Theatrette (106)