Academic conference (9)
I believe the answer is:
symposium
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">academic conference</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that academic conference can be written as symposium)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for symposium that I've seen before include "Conference for the public discussion of a topic" , "mass meeting" , "Meeting or conference for discussion of a topic" , "Conference on academic topic" , "Specialist conference" .)