CFP: DHA25
Michael Falk
‘Digital Archipelagos’
Digital Humanities Australasia 2025
December 2-5
Australian National University, Nbambri/Canberra
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for DHA25: https://dha25.org.
Abstracts: submitted via ConfTool by 9th May.
Notifications of acceptance: communicated by 13th June.
The Australasian region is home to myriad archipelagos with deep significance, from the Kulkalgal Nation islands in the middle of Torres Strait to the Wharekauri (‘Misty Sun’) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, east of Aotearoa’s South Island. Diverse, sacred, and yet increasingly under threat, these sites offer powerful examples of how land and sea are woven into cultural knowledge systems, social relations, and identities.
Archipelagos also serve our conference as a metaphor to spark dialogue about new directions and approaches in the Digital Humanities. They inspire us to conceptualise the fragmentation, clustering, dispersion, and interconnection of data in the Digital Humanities in discussions that prioritise local experiences and networks to challenge dominant narratives. In an age of algorithmic ubiquity, we aim to examine how seemingly isolated ‘islands’ of knowledge can remain distinct but intricately connected across evolving global contexts.
Archipelagos can also signify the coming together of disciplines, ideas and methodologies in ways that honour local histories, languages, and cosmologies while advancing sustainable, community-informed projects in the digital arena. From ‘relation-oriented AI’ to ‘embodied knowledge archives,’ our conference theme foregrounds situatedness, proximity, and place as indispensable foci for future DH research and practice (Brown, Whaanga & Lewis 2023; Alliata et al. 2024).
Digital Archipelagos invites submissions for a four-day interdisciplinary Digital Humanities conference on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people at The Australian National University, hosted by the HASS Digital Research Hub and the College of Arts and Social Sciences. 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.
We invite papers on the following three themes, or any other topic in the Digital Humanities:
- AI-Enhanced Humanities Research
- Digital Cultural Stewardship
- Data Ethics and Inclusive Practice
For full details and access to the Conftool Submission site, visit https://dha25.org.
Michael Falk, on behalf of the
DHA25 Organising Committee