Academic Org Theme

Academic Org Theme is a Jekyll theme for academic conferences, research groups, and small organisations. It aims for clear and consistent pages over visual flourish — the design assumption is that visitors come here to find a specific paper, a session time, or a committee contact, not to scroll through marketing copy.

The site you’re reading right now is a working demo of the theme, built from the same repo that publishes the gem. The Program, Committee, and per-paper pages under /proceedings/ are generated from two data files (_data/sessions.yml and _data/proceedings.csv); no per-paper HTML is written by hand. See the README on GitHub for the consuming-site usage guide.

What the theme gives you

  • A Bootstrap-based responsive layout with a configurable top navigation, optional feature images, and dark-mode-aware heroes.
  • A data-driven pipeline that turns a CSV of papers and a YAML of sessions into cross-linked per-paper and per-session pages.
  • A FullCalendar-backed program page that renders straight from your sessions data.
  • A committee page that renders from a flat YAML list.
  • SEO metadata via jekyll-seo-tag, and standard Markdown/Kramdown rendering for prose content.

Where this came from

The theme started as a small layout for Charles Martin’s homepage and was then extended to handle the needs of the NIME community — proceedings listings, sessions, and committee pages that multiple conference years could share. It’s now packaged as a gem so other organisations can adopt the same structure without forking.

The sections below exist to demo the theme’s Markdown rendering. They’re useful if you’re evaluating the typography before adopting the theme.

Typography

This is a paragraph with bold text, italicized text, and inline code. You can also use strikethrough text.

Unordered list

  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Subitem 2.1
    • Subitem 2.2
  • Item 3

Ordered list

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
    1. Subitem 3.1
    2. Subitem 3.2

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Blockquotes

This is a blockquote. It can span multiple lines and can contain other markdown elements.

  • Like this list item
  • And another one

Code blocks

def hello_world():
    print("Hello, world!")

hello_world()