Crossword clues for colloquia
colloquia
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin plural of colloquium (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. a (plural of colloquium English)
WordNet
See colloquium
n. an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
an address to an academic meeting or seminar
[also: colloquia (pl)]
Usage examples of "colloquia".
You find university colloquia in which the speaker has hardly gotten thirty seconds into the talk before there are devastating questions and comments from the audience.
In 1963, my first year of graduate school, I met Leo Szilard at department colloquia, avidly holding forth on his myriad ideas.
Billboards lined the walls, stapled and tacked with colloquia notices, assistantship postings, apartments to share.
All this was clear, and it was doubly clear that no one in the audience prepared for the Colloquia, no one studied for them.
Dyson had an immense reputation as a theoretical physicist and thus was invited to give one of the last spring Colloquia in the UCLJ Physics Department.
Commissions and assignments abounded, invitations to appear on panels, participate in colloquia, write essays, play talking head.
Humanities Center, and various colloquia of the English department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Because of the time it would inevitably take to organise, a congress that some had called for was never convened, but in compensation there were colloquia, seminars, round-table discussions, some open to the public, others held behind closed doors.