{"id":10357,"date":"2020-08-28T01:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:05:07","slug":"convocation-series-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2020\/08\/28\/convocation-series-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2019\u201320 Convocation Series Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg University Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that includes long-standing endowed and special programs. Recent presenters included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DeAnna Cummings, chief executive officer of Juxtaposition Arts, who shared a presentation at the Horbal Lecture in November called \u201cPutting Creativity to Work 2025: Stronger Communities Through Local Art and Design\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John S. Wright, professor emeritus of English and African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota, who delivered \u201cWhere Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community\u201d at the 32nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation in January<\/li>\n<li>Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, who presented \u201cEthics, Identity, and Cosmopolitanism\u201d at the Batalden Seminar in Applied Ethics in March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10708\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10708 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-DeAnna-Cummings_2.jpg\" alt=\"DeAnna Cummings Headshot\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-DeAnna-Cummings_2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-DeAnna-Cummings_2-768x1075.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeAnna Cummings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10709\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-John-S.-Wright-2.jpg\" alt=\"John S. Wright\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-John-S.-Wright-2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-John-S.-Wright-2-768x1075.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John S. Wright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10710\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10710 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-K.-Anthony_Appiah_2.jpg\" alt=\"Kwame Anthony Appiah Headshot\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-K.-Anthony_Appiah_2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/ATQ_Focused-Convo-K.-Anthony_Appiah_2-768x1075.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwame Anthony Appiah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg University Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that includes long-standing endowed and special programs. Recent presenters included: DeAnna Cummings, chief executive officer of Juxtaposition Arts, who shared a presentation at the Horbal Lecture in November called \u201cPutting Creativity to Work 2025: Stronger Communities Through Local Art and Design\u201d John S. Wright, professor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-summer-2020"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}