Digital Archipelagos Digital Humanities Australasia 2025 will be held in Canberra, Austrailia (Ngambri lands) on 2-5 December 2025, with proposal submissions now open. The main conference will run from midday on 3 December, with pre-meetings, workshops and allied events on 2 December, including the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) gathering.
From the call:
The conference 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. We frame sustainability not just as a technical concern, but as a ‘multifaceted activity’ across environmental, political, cultural, and artistic domains (Tucker 2022). To that end, we invite proposals that address topics such as ethical collaboration, decolonised data governance, critical archival practices, multimodal storytelling, ecological critiques of digital infrastructures, and community-driven digital projects, along with other Digital Humanities topics.
Like the diverse archipelagos that inspire our theme, we seek to engage the DH community around new topics and pathways, with papers and workshops from the wider arts, humanities, social sciences. We welcome contributions from scholars, librarians, archivists, artists, writers, practitioners, performers, activists, and others engaged with the intersections of Digital Humanities, sustainability, and social justice. We especially encourage submissions that propose novel, interdisciplinary frameworks and methods in DH and cognate fields.
Our conference also warmly welcome colleagues from the wider Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector. The DHA Organising Committee invite members of the Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives, Museums (AI4LAM) community, practitioners in GLAM, and Information and Computer Science researchers in Higher Education to submit proposals for presentations and workshops.
We offer the following as moorings for our conference across 3 themes:
1. AI-Enhanced Humanities Research
- AI and artistic practice, cultural value, and labour
- Policy and consent in the automation of cultural data
- AI and/in humanities pedagogy and education
- Emerging AI tools and cultures in DH
- Critiques of computational tools and methodologies
- Responsible AI as Public Humanities
2. Digital Cultural StewardshipPermalink
- Data connections, silos, fragmentations, bridges, and clusters
- Digital narratives and situated, embodied storytelling
- Metadata, data schema, data architectures
- Collections-as-Data
- Co-design in the Digital Humanities
- New approaches in GLAM (e.g. collaboration with researchers)
- Research Software Engineering (RSE) roles & responsibilities
- Mapping, geospatial tools, and language networks
- Collaborative research projects & Critical Infrastructure Studies (CIS)
- Digital curation and stewardship
3. Data Ethics and Inclusive PracticePermalink
- Decolonial DH, engagement, and inclusiveness principles
- Climate, cultural heritage, and responsible digital preservation
- Indigenous/community data protocols
- Frameworks for cultural care
- Data justice, digital empowerment, resistance
- Geography and fieldwork in DH
- Environmental Digital Humanities
- Cultural flows, diasporic communities, trans-oceanic exchange
Submissions for workshops, posters, papers and panels, will be accepted through 9 May.
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