Symposium

The symposium was a little rougher than usual: "Never again," said Socrates the morning after.

Tom is attending a writers' symposium in Boston.

I'm at a musicians' symposium.

The Museum of Science and Industry also hopes to stimulate discussion of genetics by hosting a three-part symposium with the nearby University of Chicago. Each session will feature experts talking about the science behind new genetic breakthroughs.

THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.