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Calling NMCC students looking to develop publishable papers!

Are you seeking feedback on a draft article manuscript you intend to publish in an academic journal? Or are you looking to turn a strong term paper into a journal article? If so, we encourage you to submit an abstract for consideration in our upcoming NMCC Article Workshop later this term. Please see below for details on logistics, expectations, and how to apply.

When: Friday, February  27, 10-11:30 am

Where: Location TBD (Coffee and light breakfast provided)

Purpose of the Workshop: The goal of the workshop is to provide a collaborative and supportive environment for developing your in-progress work for publication.

Expectations for Papers: We welcome works in progress, including dissertation chapters, early drafts of journal articles, or in some cases revised term papers.  Your paper will be circulated a few weeks before the workshop to allow for careful pre-reading and engaged feedback during the workshop.  Papers should be of a length that suits the standards of your individual discipline, and preferably tailored to the length of a target journal. For most disciplines this will mean papers between 4,000-7,000 words. (if your paper exceeds 7,000 words, we will ask you to indicate which sections you would like participants to read).

Workshop Format: Participants will engage in small-group discussions (4-7 participants per paper, mostly drawn from among fellow NMCC grads, and at least one faculty member, ideally including the author’s advisor). The author will give a brief (~5 minutes) overview, pose outstanding questions they have about the paper, and then participate in a group discussion.

Who Can Apply?: We welcome graduate students to apply whose paper engages topics at the intersection of new media and culture. Priority will be given to NMCC students.

How to Apply: To be considered for participation, please fill out this form by Feb. 2. At this stage, we are only requesting an abstract (100-250 words) and keywords. Full papers will be circulated at a later date.

Final Note: Before submitting the form, we ask that you confirm your advisor’s availability to attend the workshop. Although not required for participation, this helps with planning. Once accepted, we will facilitate invitations to peers and faculty in your home unit who might be interested in attending.

Questions? Email Colin Koopman (NMCC Director) and Brooke Burns (NMCC Program Assistant and Digital Humanities Coordinator) at nmcc@uoregon.edu

We look forward to reading your submissions and to a productive workshop together!

 

University of Oregon’s Eighth Annual
Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium

Submissions Due: Tuesday, January 27, 2026

We invite submissions from UO graduate students for 15-minute presentations on any aspect of data, media, or digital studies for a symposium in the UO Knight Library DREAM Lab on Friday, April 17, week 3 of the spring term at the Data|Media|Digital Symposium.

D|M|D is an opportunity to showcase the exciting multidisciplinary work produced by UO graduate students across campus. In addition to panels, we will have informal discussions over food and drinks, a hosted lunch, and a panel of short presentations by UO faculty working in these areas. We hope student participants will be able to attend the full day of panel sessions.

Presentations can be based on work in progress or research and work in the final stages of development. Proposals should specify clear scholarly or pedagogical goals and should articulate how the design or argument of a data/media/digital project might address those goals.

Any kind of data, media, or digital studies project is welcome. If you are not  sure whether your project fits our call, then it probably does, but please get in touch (nmcc@uoregon.edu), and we can offer you our guidance.

Send your submission to nmcc.uo@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, January 27. Decisions about all submissions will be shared in February.

Complete submissions will include the following:

• Your (preferred) name (in the body of your email)
• Your presentation title (in the body of your email)
• Your home department at UO (in the body of your email)
• Your degree program (Master’s, Doctoral) and your anticipated graduation term/year
• A list (or selected list) of previous academic conference/event presentations (if this will be your first academic presentation outside of a class, that is okay and this will not impact the review of your submission; we request this information for our planning)
• A separate PDF document with a 250-500 word abstract (or summary description of your project), the title of your presentation at the top, and your name. Please make sure this is a separate attachment and is not pasted into the body of the email.

 

You can share questions about D|M|D with any member of our organizing committee:

• Whitney Phillips, wphilli2@uoregon.edu, School of Journalism and Communication
• Mattie Burkert, mburkert@uoregon.edu, English and Digital Humanities Minor Director
• Colin Koopman: koopman@uoregon.edu, Philosophy and New Media & Culture Certificate Director

We encourage graduate students to apply to the HASTAC Scholars Program, a two-year interdisciplinary fellowship for students working at the intersection of the humanities, arts, sciences, and technology. 

You can find more information on HASTAC here: https://hastac.hcommons.org/about/hastac-scholars/

How they describe the benefits:

(1) Join an interdisciplinary community of scholars changing the way we teach and learn.

(2) Meet and collaborate with others who share your research interests, pedagogy approaches, and professional development ideas

(3) Contribute to HASTAC Scholars in countless ways: blog, host forums and webinars, organize events, and discuss new ideas that reconceive teaching, learning, research, writing and structuring knowledge.

How to Apply: Students may apply through the online application form. A faculty or staff mentor is required.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTwRi8E0MrNFLbsaaJ8ETJ6yIqvXO0C6oMvYWaHop4Sr3LmQ/viewform

Calling NMCC students looking to develop publishable papers!

Are you seeking feedback on a draft article manuscript you intend to publish in an academic journal? Or are you looking to turn a strong term paper into a journal article? If so, we encourage you to submit an abstract for consideration in our upcoming NMCC Article Workshop later this term. Please see below for details on logistics, expectations, and how to apply. If there is enough interest, we will run at least one more NMCC Article Workshop later in the academic year (email us to let us know if you want to be involved).

When: Wednesday, November 26, 10-11:50 am

Where: DREAM Lab, Knight Library (Coffee and light breakfast provided)

Purpose of the Workshop: The goal of the workshop is to provide a collaborative and supportive environment for developing your in-progress work for publication.

Expectations for Papers: We welcome works in progress, including dissertation chapters, early drafts of journal articles, or in some cases revised term papers.  Your paper will be circulated a few weeks before the workshop to allow for careful pre-reading and engaged feedback during the workshop.  Papers should be of a length that suits the standards of your individual discipline, and preferably tailored to the length of a target journal. For most disciplines this will mean papers between 4,000-7,000 words. (if your paper exceeds 7,000 words, we will ask you to indicate which sections you would like participants to read).

Workshop Format: Participants will engage in small-group discussions (4-7 participants per paper, mostly drawn from among fellow NMCC grads, and at least one faculty member, ideally including the author’s advisor). The author will give a brief (~5 minutes) overview, pose outstanding questions they have about the paper, and then participate in a group discussion.

Who Can Apply?: We welcome graduate students to apply whose paper engages topics at the intersection of new media and culture. Priority will be given to NMCC students.

How to Apply: To be considered for participation, please fill out this form by November 3, 11:59 pm. At this stage, we are only requesting an abstract (100-250 words) and keywords. Full papers will be circulated at a later date.

Final Note: Before submitting the form, we ask that you confirm your advisor’s availability to attend the workshop. Although not required for participation, this helps with planning. Once accepted, we will facilitate invitations to peers and faculty in your home unit who might be interested in attending.

Questions? Email Colin Koopman (NMCC Director) and Brooke Burns (NMCC Program Assistant and Digital Humanities Coordinator) at nmcc@uoregon.edu

We look forward to reading your submissions and to a productive workshop together!

 

Interested in learning more about curating and displaying your work using CollectionBuilder? Join us from 10:00am-11:30am on Friday, May 16 in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for a workshop hosted by UO Librarian Franny Gaede to brush up on some of your Digital Humanities skills, learn more about CollectionBuilder, and gain inspiration for your next project.

Please register to let us know you’ll be in attendance!

Annie Liu (she/her) is a third-year Musicology, MM Bassoon Performance master’s student and an NMCC recipient. Liu is graduating from UO in June 2024 and starting a PhD in musicology at Princeton this fall. 

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Profile

Liu’s current research focuses on voice, timbre, and politics in Chinese popular music from 1920–1980. She uses digital tools, like Sonic Visualizer, to create spectrograms or visual ways of representing the signal strength over time at various frequencies present in a particular waveform. 

Early in her program, she became interested in music and the Internet/social media, leading her to the NMCC. She wanted to learn about digital humanities and making musicology public and accessible. Liu always wanted to take courses outside of music to meet faculty and students across campus.

Liu received a Student Presentation Award for the ACTOR Y6 Workshop and will present a chapter from her master’s thesis about shidaiqu vocal timbre. She also co-authored a paper on Peking opera vocal timbre with her advisor, Zachary Wallmark, and it is to be published in Music & Science in the coming months.

Looking ahead, Annie Liu envisions her website, shanghaisong.org, as a dynamic and interactive platform. This space will not only serve as a repository for songs but also foster collaboration among scholars interested in the genre or the time period. Her aspiration is to create a vibrant academic community that thrives on shared knowledge and collaboration.

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Recommendations

Reading:

• The Science-Music Borderlands, a recently published collection of essays from scholars in various disciplines who are all studying music

Resources:

• Musicology Now
• Women’s Song Forum
• SOMD Professor Steve Rodger’s Art Song Augmented
• Sounding Out!
• the ACTOR Project’s Timbre and Orchestration Resource

Rhythm:

• Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered
• Laufey’s album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition

 

Our Fall 2024 course list is now live! Find it here.