{"id":77,"date":"2026-04-24T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marcoinstitute\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:42:03","slug":"symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/events\/symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull utkwds-media-text-cta has-light-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dbf27b9b wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-utkwds-left-frame\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"People looking at a museum exhibit\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Symposium-2-Museum_1920w_LJ.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-c7b3064f wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Symposium<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Marco Symposium is the Institute\u2019s premier annual event, held every year in the spring semester. The Symposium brings leading experts in their field to the University of Tennessee for two days of talks on that year\u2019s theme, a public keynote by a major distinguished scholar, and concludes with a roundtable discussion by all the participants. Each year the Symposium is led by at least two Marco faculty members from different departments, celebrating our Institute\u2019s interdisciplinarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Symposium Themes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/21st-annual-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/21st-annual-marco-symposium\/\">2026: \u201cThe Roland Tradition: From History to Legend, From King Charles to Stephen King\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2025-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2025-marco-symposium\/\">2024\/2025: \u201cLocal and Global Perspectives on Materiality in the Premodern World\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2023-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2023-marco-symposium\/\">2023: \u201cThe Canon of Shakespeare at 400\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2022-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2022-marco-symposium\/\">2022: \u201cReligious Communities Across Space and Time in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2021-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2021-marco-symposium\/\">2020\/2021: \u201cVisions of the End: Medieval &amp; Renaissance Apocalyptic Cultures\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2019symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2019symposium\/\">2019: \u201cDeath and Dying in Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2018-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2018-symposium\/\">2018: \u201cNavigating Language in the Early Islamic World\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2017-annual-marco-symposium-carolingian-experiments\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2017-annual-marco-symposium-carolingian-experiments\/\">2017: \u201cCarolingian Experiments\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2016-annual-marco-symposium\/\" id=\"https:\/\/artsci.utk.edu\/marco\/2016-annual-marco-symposium\/\">2016: \u201cRome: Beyond the Discourse of Renewal\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: \u201c\u2018Cry Havoc!\u2019: War, Diplomacy and Conspiracy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: \u201cReconceiving Pre-Modern Spaces\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: \u201cGrounding the Book: Readers, Writers, and Places in the Pre-Modern World\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: \u201cGardens, Real and Imagined\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: \u201cThe Building Blocks of France\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: \u201cHumanism and Its Economies\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: \u201cSaints &amp; Citizens: Religion and Politics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: \u201cThe Book of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, Pilgrimage from 1250-1650\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005: \u201cInteractions and Images: Cultural Contacts Across Eurasia, 600-1600\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004: \u201cSpectacle and Public Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003: \u201cBooks and Readers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002: \u201cScripture and Pluralism: The Study of the Bible in the Sectarian Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symposium The Marco Symposium is the Institute\u2019s premier annual event, held every year in the spring semester. 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