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 |
Lecture and Reception with Marco Visiting Scholar Pascale Drouet |
Apr. 25 |
Marco Annual Graduate Research Evening (4:30pm, The Mill Room at Cherokee Mills) |
May