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2019 Symposium: Death and Dying in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Friday & SaturdayApril 5-6Great Room, International House (1623 Melrose Ave.)The University of Tennessee, Knoxville In recent years, approaches to death and dying have become a subject of increasing concern both to scholars and the public. As medical advances in the western world have prolonged…

14th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop “Bits and Pieces” February 1-2, 2019 About The fourteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop took place Friday and Saturday, February 1-2, 2019, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The workshop was organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), and is hosted by the Marco Institute for…

April 6-7, 2018UT International House Great Room In the last few years of the seventh century, the Marwānid Reforms established Arabic as the administrative language of the Umayyad Caliphate. Coins, inscriptions, and papyri subsequently attest the use of Arabic in caliphal and local administration. Despite the centrality of Arabic as a sacred language to Muslims,…

13th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “Transmission” February 2-3, 2018 The thirteenth annual Marco Manuscript Workshop will take place Friday and Saturday, February 2-3, 2018, 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 the Marco Institute for Medieval and…

“Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Third Annual Undergraduate Conference entitled “Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.”  The conference will take place on April 19, 2013 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  We are currently calling for abstracts…

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held April 4–6, 2013 at the Hilton Knoxville in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, which is in the heart of the Tennessee Valley, at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and down the street from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The meeting will be…

“Religion and Culture in Late Antiquity”April 30-May 1, 2010 This regional workshop is funded by the American Academy of Religion, the Marco Institute (UT), the Department of Religious Studies (UT), and the Humanities Initiative (UT), and will be a chance for all scholars of religion and scholars of late antiquity to discuss the work in progress of four prominent faculty…

“Mysticism, Heresy, and Witchcraft” The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is excited to announce its first undergraduate conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, April 8, 2011. The theme for the conference is “Mysticism, Heresy, and…

“The Roland Tradition: From History to Legends, From King Charles to Stephen King“ April 10-11, 2026 The Toyota Auditorium, Howard Baker CenterUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville The Marco Symposium is the Institute’s premier annual event, and is held every year in March or April. The Symposium brings leading experts in their field to the University of…