The word "symposia" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a setting in which people can come together to discuss and debate a certain topic or topics. For example, "The university is hosting several symposia this summer on topics ranging from climate change to racial justice."
We have run numerous conferences, ranging from small symposia of 40 persons to 600 plus delegate three day multiple parallel track behemoths.
The natural and social scientists qualified to speak on environmental subjects found themselves suddenly much in demand for lectures, symposia, panel meetings and rallies.
One of the bigger challenges attendees is poring over the 160-page conference programme in order to select a handful of lectures, seminars, symposia, briefings, etc, dozens of which run in parallel, taking up most of Vancouver's vast convention centre from Friday through Monday.
Over the past decade, I have participated in many conferences and symposia that explored the link between faith and the environment, in places ranging from Brazil to Greenland to New Orleans.
Barack Obama took the oath of office on the same King James Bible that had been used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.Everlasting lifeIn Britain more than 70 celebratory events are planned, starting with an exhibition at St John's College, Cambridge, and including lectures, reading marathons, symposia, concerts and conferences as far afield as Plymouth and Aberdeen.
Dance festivals, congresses and symposia take place there on a regular basis.
True, the American capital was uncannily empty on Presidents Day weekend, but that only reinforced the feeling of science's ubiquitous presence.At this point, a waggish remark would usually follow to illustrate the plethora of topics covered in the innumerable lectures, seminars, symposia, poster sessions and the like.
Feminists rejoice that the author, Murasaki Shikibu, was a woman, even if writing fiction was generally regarded as frivolous and lowbrow; not an activity for men.The book's 1,000th anniversary is being celebrated in Japan with lectures, symposia, plays, conferences and concerts.
International scientific symposia are organized by SCAR for exchange of latest research results, on a timetable depending upon progress in the discipline.
Through poetic symposia and in a milieu in which memorizing verse was customary, his poetry became widely known, even among the illiterate.
Tyrtaeus wrote poetry in elegiac couplets (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines) intended for symposia.
