Colloquium may refer to:
*An
academic
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
seminar
A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some parti ...
usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting or similarly to a tutorial led by students as is the case in Norway.
*A form of testing and assessing students' knowledge in the education system, mainly in universities.
*The
Parliament of Scotland
The Parliament of Scotland ( sco, Pairlament o Scotland; gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century from the king's council o ...
, called a "colloquium" in Latin records
*Any musical piece celebrating birth or distribution of good news, a hymn (antonyms:
requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...
,
coronach
A coronach (also written coranich, corrinoch, coranach, cronach, etc.) is the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Goll, being the third part of a round of keening, the traditional improvised singing at a death, wake or funeral in the Highlands of S ...
)
*The part of a complaint for
defamation
Defamation is the act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person, place or thing that results in damage to its reputation. It can be spoken (slander) or written (libel). It constitutes a tort or a crime. The legal defini ...
in which the plaintiff avers that the defamatory remarks related to him or her
See also
*
Symposium (disambiguation)
The symposium was an Ancient Greek social institution.
Symposium may also refer to:
Academia and scholarship
* ''Symposium'' (Plato), a dialogue by Plato
* ''Symposium'' (Xenophon), a dialogue by Xenophon
* '' Symposium: Canadian Journal of Con ...
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Colloquy (disambiguation)
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