{"id":9350,"date":"2019-04-22T14:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2019-04-25T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:17:49","slug":"augsburg-welcomes-leading-scholars-for-convocation-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2019\/04\/22\/augsburg-welcomes-leading-scholars-for-convocation-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg welcomes leading scholars for convocation series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Augsburg University Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that includes long-standing endowed and special programs. Recent presenters included:<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Terrance.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Terrance Kwame-Ross\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Terrance.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Terrance-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>\u2022 <strong>Terrance Kwame-Ross<\/strong>, associate professor in the Department of Education at Augsburg, who delivered \u201cOur Conversation with Dr. King: Class in Session\u201d at the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation in January.<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Jin.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Jin Y. Park\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Jin.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Jin-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>\u2022 Jin Y. Park, professor of philosophy and religion and founding director of the Asian Studies Program at American University, who shared a presentation at the Batalden Seminar in Applied Ethics in March called \u201cEthical Imagination: Buddhist-Postmodern Approaches.\u201d<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9412 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Pamela.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Pamela Ronald\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Pamela.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Pamela-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>\u2022 Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor in the Plant Pathology Department and the Genome Center at University of California\u2014Davis, presented \u201cServing Up Science: Plant Genetics and the Future of Food\u201d for the General Leif J. Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Lecture in April.<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg University Convocation Series is an annual speaker series that includes long-standing endowed and special programs. 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