The phrase "as a symposium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or gathering that is organized in the manner of a symposium, typically for discussion or presentation of ideas.
Example: "The conference was structured as a symposium, allowing experts to share their research findings and engage in meaningful dialogue."
Alternatives: "in the form of a symposium" or "like a symposium".
Their views were published as a symposium in I'll Take My Stand (1930).
with a series of documentaries as well as a symposium titled "Mid-20th-Century American Culture and Politics".
The Marfa Dialogues began in Texas in 2010 as a symposium in which the intersection of culture and politics were explored.
In Washington, Pepsi-Cola will sponsor the inaugural ball of the Creative Coalition, an arts and entertainment advocacy organization, as well as a symposium at Howard University, titled "Refresh the World," that is to feature participants like Spike Lee, Queen Latifah and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
From Friday through Sunday and from Aug. 17 through 19, a total of 11 concert programs, ranging from orchestral and chamber music to songs and choral works, as well as a symposium and films, will explore Debussy's world and his legacy.
And though she does not play, her arrival inaugurates the further decline of the symposium into something even more like the kind of symposium reviled in the Protagoras as "a symposium of common, vulgar fellows… who, unable to entertain one another with their own conversation, put up the price of flute-girls, and pay large sums to hear the sound of the flute instead of their own talk" (347c4-d2).
"People are always putting 'Ulysses' in the Top 10 books ever written, but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it," Mr. Doyle was quoted as saying at a symposium on Joyce and Irish writing at Ireland House at New York University.
Father O'Connell apparently made at least two appearances at Fordham, one in 2008 and one in 2006 as the headliner at a symposium on scientific psychology versus religious faith, according to documents provided by the woman's lawyer.
In 1967 Dr. Payne and Scott McVay, who are appearing at a symposium as part of the festival, discovered that humpback whales produced a repeated pattern of sounds that could be described as a song, a discovery that popularized the plight of whales and put the spotlight on commercial whaling.
Heggie is an unabashed melodist, as he said himself at a symposium on the eve of the premiere.
Last year, Mr. Joseph was chosen to speak at a symposium in Washington as the "face of homeless youth".
