For the Washington gatherings, "scholars" (as conference-goers are called) bunk at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center, a brick Georgian flanked by a dining hall and meeting rooms, just outside the city.
The occasion was the Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, an erudite gathering of scholars interested in exploring the work of dictionaries structured on historical principles.
Mr. Morales, 78, is a Mayanist, host of the Palenque Round Table, a gathering of scholars, and grand panjandrum of Panchan, an ethereal forest of cabanas and restaurants favored by world travelers.
The Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival, a gathering of scholars, authors, performing artists and others, pays homage to the writer who called New Orleans "one of the last frontiers of Bohemia".
In Philadelphia in 1976, at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, an interfaith gathering of scholars and church leaders that was devoted to ecumenism amid a decade often characterized by division, he stood to address a large crowd.
Pordenone happens to be home to Cinemazero, a cultural organization that regularly screens classic films, and which each fall partners with the Cineteca del Friuli to present Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, a gathering of scholars and cinephiles with a special dedication to the shadowy corners of film history.
It depicts a power gathering of scholars in a grove, with the host, Yang Rong, in a red robe seated in the painting's center and the guest of honor, Yang Shiqi, the highest-ranking government official of his day, in a blue robe next to him.
IMME17 is the first of this series, which is witnessing an international gathering of scholars, scientists and practicing engineers to present and listen on the themed topics.
This support helped us bring together an exceptional gathering of scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America for a highly productive few days of discussion.
Finally, around 1990, a gathering group of scholars lighted the path.
