The Marco Institute
Events
The Marco Institute hosts a program of events throughout each academic year, featuring conferences, workshops, events, and lectures.
EVENTS CALENDAR,
Fall 2026
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2 — Graduate Colloquium and Welcome Lunch (11:45am)
OCTOBER
Oct. 7 — Graduate Colloquium Meeting
Oct. 22 — Emerging Voices in Jewish Studies Lecture (co-sponsored by the Marco Institute): Dov Honick, “How Christians Invented the Talmud: Jewish Stories and the Making of Medieval Anti-Judaism“
Oct. 23-24 — Southeastern Renaissance Conference (Hilton Downtown Knoxville)
NOVEMBER
Nov. 7 — Graduate Colloquium Meeting
Nov. 19 — Annual Riggsby Lecture: Marissa Galvez (Stanford), TBA (5pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium)
DECEMBER
Dec. (TBA) — Marco Annual Holiday Gathering
JANUARY
Jan. 29-30 — 22nd Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “What’s Missing?”
FEBRUARY
Feb. 22-26 — Marco Institute / Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts Residency: Bissera Pentcheva, “Enchanted Images”
MARCH
Mar. 30 — Italian Studies Lecture (co-sponsored by the Marco Institute): Moreno Savoretti (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), “Salacious Jokes and Dangerous Ideas: Humor in Renaissance Italy.”
APRIL
Apr. 6 — Emerging Voices in Jewish Studies Lecture (co-sponsored by the Marco Institute): Oren Yirmiya, “An Intertextual Alterity: North African Piyyut and Modern Mizrahi Hebrew Poetry“
Apr. 9-10 — Marco Annual Symposium
MAY
May (TBA) — Graduate Fellows Evening