The agenda features endless social colloquia, most of them on obscure themes.
Van Breda also organized international colloquia on phenomenology.
Strangely enough, it resembled debates I had in college colloquia on the extent to which "Chaucer the pilgrim" reflected, even ironically or in opposition, "Chaucer the poet".
In this vein, he regularly convenes breach-healing colloquia about diversity and tolerance, which always backfire.
And it's something that forms the life-blood, not only of TED but of all colloquia and festivals and gatherings of accomplished people.
The fact that Bolcom can knock out a Gershwinish tune like nobody's business has caused him to be underrated in the glum colloquia of contemporary music, where, for a long time, melodies had the status of radioactive rodents, and where seriousness is often measured by counting how many disparate pitches and rhythms pile up in any one bar.
He was a mentor to several generations of scholars of Islamic art, an organizer of colloquia, scholarly organizations, journals and prizes, and the recipient of numerous honors.
But in January, Columbia began a spirituality concentration in its clinical psychology master's program, and last month, the university created a broader program, the Spirituality and Mind-Body Institute, to conduct research and host colloquia.
She also spoke at Armstrong conventions and colloquia, and at the Smithsonian Institution.
We know that they didn't because a short piece about literature and psychoanalysis, evidently delivered at a colloquium, refers to "colloquia like this" (he ought to have declared the origin, or erased all evidence of it).
When digital people run workshops or colloquia or jams (there are infinite names for the basic principle of bringing people together in combination with coffee) about storytelling, they often seem not to notice that quite a lot of very clever people have been thinking very hard about stories for, oh, the past 3,000-4,000 3,000-4,000 years
