Colorado and Goethe seemed an unlikely pairing, but the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation turned out to be a huge success, attracting world-class artists and intellectuals -- not to mention gobs of publicity.
At this year's convocation, I was asked to be the guest speaker.
In May 1536 Pope Paul published a bull of convocation for his proposed council to be held in Mantua.
After presiding submissively over the convocation (1531) that declared Henry to be the head of the Church in England, Warham bravely published (February 1532) a dignified but emphatic protest against the enactments of the Reformation Parliament from 1529.
If we are to find a sensible, stable solution to what amounts to a growing crisis, there needs to be a convocation of interested parties: NMA, Society of Editors, PA, BBC and, possibly, representatives from the culture, media and sport department (maybe the minister himself, John Whittingdale).
Under Philip the Fair and his sons, however, these convocations were not yet understood to be representative of the estates of society; only when Philip V began to summon northern and southern men separately to deliberate on fiscal matters were the estates (which made up the Estates-General) in any way anticipated.
The statutes governing the Boden chair were revised by the commissioners in 1882; Joseph Boden's original proselytising purpose was no longer mentioned, nor was the professor to be chosen by Convocation.
See articleGeorge Bush attended a convocation at the college and ordered flags to be flown at half-mast.
The German governments agreed to the convocation of three constituent assemblies at Berlin, Vienna, and Frankfurt by which democratic constitutions were to be drafted for Prussia, Austria, and Germany.
Now her husband was at the Convocation of Thanks, the college's 12th-annual memorial service for those who had donated their bodies to be studied there.
