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colloquium

[kuh-loh-kwee-uhm] / kəˈloʊ kwi əm /
NOUN
conference
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The first recorded Scottish Parliament in 1235 was known as a colloquium, a place of conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

“A new role we will see is chief longevity officer,” Waterhouse said at a colloquium on work and wellness for older people organized by the University of Maine’s Center on Aging.

From MarketWatch Dec. 12, 2025

Abu Sitta had been invited by France’s left-wing Ecologists group in the Senate to speak at a colloquium Saturday about the situation in Gaza, according to the Senate press service.

From Seattle Times May 5, 2024

It was October 2017 and they were in Paris for a two-day history-of-medicine colloquium on the subject of the French royal court.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2021

During a European sojourn, he surprised a colloquium at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands by delivering a lecture in Dutch, which he had taught himself.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Thus began seven years of solitude in which he traded math conferences and departmental colloquia for his cluttered office at Princeton and, when possible, his attic study.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2022

Steiner went to the seminars and the colloquia, absorbing everything, enjoying it.

From Seattle Times Nov. 25, 2021

But poets don’t want to be fodder for panels and colloquia, and Hutchinson’s poems are oppositional and disruptive, sometimes tauntingly so.

From The New Yorker Nov. 13, 2016

We have thesis defenses and colloquia and conferences.

From Slate May 1, 2015

Subsequent invitations to the research colloquia were not to be expected, and even the most casual questioning of Maurice would provoke the suspicion that we were at it again.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

More centers on campuses to promote discussion among viewpoints would only add to the ongoing debates that occur in seminars, faculty meetings, committees of various sorts and guest colloquiums.

From Washington Post Mar. 3, 2023

Many of the roughly 300 people assembling at the five-star Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley for three days of colloquiums and seminars will be thinking about who might lead their party after November.

From Washington Post Jun. 9, 2016

The symposium, which took place over a month, comprised more than a dozen lectures, workshops, and colloquiums.

From The New Yorker May 23, 2016

Some picketed Woolworth stores; others ran high-powered colloquiums like Yale's "Challenge" and Princeton's "Response."

From Time Magazine Archive

"We're sick of people coming here to organize colloquiums on plant conversion as a social phenomenon," says Josef Fucik, a department head in the federal Ministry of Economics in Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive




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