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. 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 Mills
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
November
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
December
TBA
Marco Holiday Party (TBA)
Spring Semester 2026
January/February
Jan. 30-31
21st Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
March
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
April
Apr. 10-11
21st Annual Marco Symposium
TBA
Marco Graduate Colloquium
TBA
Marco Annual Graduate Fellows Evening (The Mill Room, Cherokee Mills)