symposia
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The public-facing work of the organization, like its panel discussions, debates, and academic symposia, can seem unobjectionable.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2022
The settlement includes $5,000 reserved in the provost’s office to pay for meeting expenses, events and symposia sponsored by the Carolina Black Caucus per year through June 2025, according to Hannah-Jones.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
With this April 15 marking the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color line, Major League Baseball will celebrate the occasion with great fanfare – with tributes, movies, TV specials, museum exhibits and symposia.
From Salon • May 14, 2022
Finally, the Greeks took part in a range of cultural practices, from listening to traveling storytellers who recited the Iliad and Odyssey from memory to holding drawn-out drinking parties called symposia.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
