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, 2023-24
Fall Semester 2023
August
| Aug. 31 | Graduate Student Welcome Lunch and Information Session |
September
| Sept. 7 | Marco Advisory Board Annual Meeting (4:30pm, Student Union Executive Dining Room) |
| Sept. 13 | Marco Undergraduate Interest and Information Session (4:30pm, Riggsby Library and Reading Room, Greve 610) |
| Sept. 18 | UT Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture: “Thinking with Bees,” Joseph Campana (3:30pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium) |
October
November
| Nov. 2 | Lindsay Young Distinguished Visiting Senior Scholar Lecture: Craig Taylor (York), “Investigating the Childhood of Joan of Arc” (4:30pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library) |
| Nov. 3 | Lindsay Young Community Lunch with Craig Taylor (12pm) |
| Nov. 30 | 20th Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval Mediterranean History & Culture: Suzanne Conklin Akbari (IAS, Princeton), “Byzantine Purple, Purple Wampum: Mediterranean Studies on Turtle Island” (5pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library) |
December
| Dec. 1 | Riggsby Community Lunch with Suzanne Akbari Conklin (12pm) |
| Dec. 4 | Marco Holiday Party (SchulzBrau) |
Spring Semester 2024
January
| Jan. 29 | Marco Community Lunch with Visiting Scholar, Prof. Bill Engel (12:30pm, I-House Community Room) |
February
| Feb. 2-3 | 19th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “The Whole Book” |
| Feb. 6 | UT Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture: “Political Religions in the Long Roman Empire,” Leonora Neville (3:30pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library) |
March
| Mar. 4 | UT Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture: “Reading Medieval Songs,” Ardis Butterfield (3:30pm, Zoom) – CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
April
| Apr. 10 | Marco Institute Open House: Come visit our new location at Cherokee Mills! (4:30pm) |
| Apr. 18 | Visiting Lecture: Sebastian Sobecki, “A Blueprint for Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye” (3:30pm, McClung Tower 1215) – CLICK HERE FOR INFO |
| Apr. 23 | Visiting Lecture and Reception: “‘Th’abundant torture of thy tongue’: John Marston’s Experimental Language” Pascale Drouet, Poitiers (4:30pm, McClung Tower 1215) |
| Apr. 25 | Marco Annual Graduate Research Evening (4:30pm, The Mill Room at Cherokee Mills) |
Upcoming Events for 2024-25 – SAVE THE DATE!
| Oct. 14, 2024 | Marco Institute/Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture: Katherine L. Jansen (Time TBA) |
| Nov. 14, 2024 | 21st Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval Mediterranean History & Culture: Anthony Kaldellis (Time TBA) |
| Jan. 31 – Feb. 1, 2025 | 20th Anniversary Marco Manuscript Workshop |
| Mar. 7-8, 2025 | Marco Symposium |