1) Academic seminars 2) Scholarly get-togethers 
(from the article `Erasmus, Desiderius`) ...but, like the Hollanders and Brabanters with whom he was most at home, he recoiled from the cruel logic of religious persecution. He expressed his ...
colloquia (pl) 1. Addresses to an academic meeting or seminar. 2. Academic meetings or seminars usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.