Uncategorized

2025 Marco Symposium

20th Annual Marco Symposium “Local and Global Perspectives on Materiality in the Premodern World“ March 7-8, 2025 The Mill Room, Cherokee Mills2240 Sutherland AvenueKnoxville, TN 37928 The Marco Symposium is the Institute’s premier annual event, and is held every yearin March or April. The Symposium brings leading experts in their field to the Universityof Tennessee…
2025 Marco Manuscript Workshop

“BORDER CROSSING” January 31 – February 1, 2025 The twentieth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, January 31, and Saturday, February 1, 2025, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professor Roy M. Liuzza (English) with R. D. Perry (English) and Charles Kuper (Classics) and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. This…
2024 Marco Manuscript Workshop

19th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “The Whole Book” February 2-3, 2024 The nineteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, February 2, and Saturday, February 3, 2024, in person at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professor Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Dr. Caitlin Branum Thrash and is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance…
2023 Marco Symposium

19th Annual Symposium “The Canon of Shakespeare at 400″ March 24-25, 2023 This year’s Marco Symposium explores 400 years of Shakespeare since the publication of the First Folio. The Symposium will take place March 24-25, 2023, in the West Wing (Third Floor), Haslam Business Building, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The symposium is free…
2023 Manuscript Workshop

18th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “Writing the World” February 3-4, 2023 About The eighteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, February 3, and Saturday, February 4, 2023, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professors Charles Sanft (History) and Roy M. Liuzza (English) and is hosted by the Marco…
2022 Marco Symposium

18th Annual Symposium “Religious Communities Across Space and Time in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East” March 4-5, 2022 The Marco Institute’s 18th annual symposium brings together scholars of the medieval and early modern world to examine how religious communities conceptualized and imagined themselves. The symposium will feature specialists whose geographic interests include Africa, the Middle…
2022 Manuscript Workshop

17th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “Interventions” February 4-5, 2022 . About The seventeenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, February 4, and Saturday, February 5, 2022, in person at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is hosted by…
2021 Marco Symposium

17th Annual Symposium “Visions of the End: Medieval & Renaissance Apocalyptic Cultures” March 5-7, 2021 The Marco Institute’s 17th annual (virtual) symposium explored apocalyptic themes. During the course of three days, eleven leading scholar discussed medieval and Renaissance responses to the Book of Revelation written by John of Patmos and the end-times he predicted. During the virtual sessions,…
2021 Manuscript Workshop

16th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “Immaterial Culture” February 5-6, 2021 About The sixteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop took place Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6, 2021, on the theme of “Immaterial Culture.” Sessions met virtually via Zoom. The workshop was led by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and hosted by the…
2020 Manuscript Workshop

15th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “The Ends of Manuscripts” January 31 and February 1, 2020 About The fifteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday, January 31, and Saturday, February 1, 2020, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. For this year’s workshop, as a tribute to the 2020 McClung Museum exhibition Visions of the End (opening…