2 -5
Dec

Digital Humanities Australasia and CAPOS 2025

Join the 2025 DHA and CAPOS conferences to explore topics including AI-enhanced humanities research, digital cultural stewardship, and data ethics and inclusive practice.
Collage of images of waves, islands, cities and electrical circuits
Part of Digital Archipelagos, by Britt Arnell

About the Event

The 2025 Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA 2025) conference and 2025 Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) gathering will be held in conjunction from 2 to 5 December on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people at The Australian National University (ANU).

Register for both events by Tuesday 25 November via DHA 2025.

DHA 2025

Under the theme “Digital Archipelagos”, DHA 2025 will draw on environmental and cultural dynamics to investigate the ethics of collecting, studying, and preserving digital cultural heritage. It will also highlight Indigenous data practices and sustainable approaches to the digital humanities (DH). The main DHA 2025 conference will run from midday, Wednesday 3 December to 5pm Friday 5 December.

The program for DHA 2025 has been released. ARDC partners will present on ARDC-supported projects in the following sessions:

  • Date: Wednesday 3 December (Day 1)
  • Time: 1:30 to 3 pm (AEDT)
  • Location: 2.02 Theatrette (106), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenters: Peter Sefton, Nick Thieberger, Michael Falk

  • Date: Thursday 4 December (Day 2)
  • Time: 9:30 to 11 am (AEDT)
  • Location: 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenter: Hugh Craig

  • Date: Thursday 4 December (Day 2)
  • Time: 1:30 to 3 pm (AEDT)
  • Location: 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenters: Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) team

  • Date: Friday 5 December (Day 3)
  • Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm (AEDT)
  • Location: 3.03 Seminar Room 2 (30), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenter: Hugh Craig

  • Date: Friday 5 December (Day 3)
  • Time: 11 am to 12:30 pm (AEDT)
  • Location: 2.02 Theatrette (106), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenters: Bryoni Trezise, Caroline Wake, Tully Barnett, Scott East, Chris Hay, Benjamin Laird

  • Date: Friday 5 December (Day 3)
  • Time: 2:45 to 4 pm (AEDT)
  • Location: 2.02 Theatrette (106), Roland Wilson Building
  • Presenter: Amanda Lawrence

View the program.

  • Jill Walker Rettberg, Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen
  • Kirsten Thorpe, Associate Professor, Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub, University of Technology Sydney
  • Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist

DHA 2025 is organised by the DHA Organising Committee and supported by the:

  • Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH)
  • Australian National University
  • University of Melbourne.

For more information, visit the DHA 2025 website.

Do you have questions about this event or want to be a sponsor? Email [email protected].

CAPOS 2025

Along with the other pre-meetings, workshops and allied events for DHA 2025, the 2025 CAPOS gathering will focus on “Re-Defining Open Social Scholarship in an Age of Generative ‘Intelligence’”. The gathering will include featured speakers, CAPOS partner or plenary panels, paper sessions, and more. It will run from 2 to 3 December.

  • Michael E. Sinatra, Professor of Digital Humanities and English, Université de Montréal
  • Tyne Daile Sumner, ARC DECRA Fellow in English and Digital Humanities, Australian National University

This action-oriented program is geared toward leaders and learners from all fields and arenas, including:

  • academic and non-academic researchers
  • graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
  • librarians and archivists
  • galleries and museums professionals
  • artists
  • publishers
  • members of scholarly and professional associations and consortia
  • open source practitioners and developers
  • industry liaisons
  • community groups
  • other stakeholders.

For more information, visit the INKE website. Registrations are via DHA 2025.

Do you have questions about this event or want to be a sponsor? Contact INKE.