This page may be updated throughout the year to reflect our latest programming schedule. If you have a Marco-related event that you would like listed here, please contact us at marco@utk.edu. All times listed as Eastern Time.
Marco Event Calendar, 2025-26
Fall Semester 2025
September
Aug. 28
Marco Advisory Board Annual Meeting – 4:30pm, The Mill Room, Cherokee Mills
Sept. 9
Department of Religious Studies Annual Siddiqi Lecture: “Andalusi Peregrinations and Scholarly Circulations in the Islamic World,” Mohamad Ballan – CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
Sept. 17
22nd Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval Mediterranean History & Culture: “Icons of Sound: Chant & Recitation in Hagia Sophia,” Bissera V. Pentcheva (Stanford) – 5:00pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
Sept. 18
“Aeneas in the Underworld” Performance and Lecture – 7:30pm, Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
October
Oct. 15
Marco Graduate Colloquium
Oct. 20
Marco Institute / Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts Distinguished Lecture: “Rhetoric and Symbolic Power in the Early Atlantic World,” Andrew laird (Brown) – 3:30pm, Denbo Center, Cherokee MillsNovember
November
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
December
Dec. 11
Marco Holiday Party (TBA)
Spring Semester 2026
January/February
Jan. 30-31
21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “DESTRUCTION & PRESERVATION” (The West Wing, Haslam Business Building)
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
February
Feb. 17
Giovanni Scorcioni / Facsimile Finder Presentation/exhibition and talk. (Times/Locations TBA)
March
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
April
Apr. 10-11
21st Annual Marco Symposium: “The Roland Tradition: From History to Legend, From King Charles to Stephen King” (The West Wing, Haslam Business Building)
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
TBA
Marco Annual Graduate Fellows Evening (The Mill Room, Cherokee Mills)
