{"id":3712,"date":"2013-11-21T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2017-05-25T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:02:00","slug":"convocation-series-2013-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2013\/11\/21\/convocation-series-2013-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation Series 2013-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First held in 1990, the <strong>Augsburg College Convocation Series<\/strong> is an annual speaker series that incorporates long-standing endowed and special programs. This fall, the series kicked off with the <strong>Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium<\/strong> featuring <strong>Krista Tippett<\/strong>, host and producer of the public radio show, <em>On Being<\/em>. Tippett shared thoughts from her book, <em>Einstein\u2019s God: Revisiting Science and Religion in a New Century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the <strong>Center for Counseling and Health Promotion Convocation<\/strong> in October, <strong>Sian Beilock<\/strong>, an expert on performance and cognitive science, revealed the brain science behind \u201cchoking under pressure\u201d in a lecture based on her book, <em>Choke\u2014What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting it Right When You Have To<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Humanities and Fine Arts Convocation<\/strong> in mid-November featured the <strong>Rose Ensemble\u2019s<\/strong> performance of <em>Portraits of Peru, 1785 Exotic Folksongs and Dances from Trujillo<\/em>, inspired by a collection of watercolor paintings compiled by the local bishop for Spanish King Carlos IV, imaginatively depicting the plants, animals, people, and archaeological monuments of this diverse region in northern Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The next event, the <strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation<\/strong>, is scheduled for <strong>January 20<\/strong> and will celebrate the life and legacy of this important civil rights leader. Convocations are free and open to the public. Find the latest information at the <a title=\"Convocation Series webpage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/convo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Convocation Series<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First held in 1990, the Augsburg College Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that incorporates long-standing endowed and special programs. This fall, the series kicked off with the Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium featuring Krista Tippett, host and producer of the public radio show, On Being. Tippett shared thoughts from her book, Einstein\u2019s God: Revisiting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-2013"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7979,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/7979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}