For Brazil, it will be a convocation under its new coach, Mano Menezes, who replaced Dunga after a disappointing quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands.
Now in its 16th year, it's a convocation as much as a showcase, besotted with history and succession, scrupulous in its veneration of elders.
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).
Throughout both exhibitions, The Joplin Paintings are a convocation of shape, line and color that in no way diminishes the effects of a natural disaster, but gives permission to enjoy what he creates without substituting empathy for beauty.
The movement, she wrote, is a "diffuse and leaderless convocation of activists against greed, corporate influence, gross social inequality and other nasty byproducts of wayward capitalism".
Annually he contributes to the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership's Convocation, and is a former speaker with Wyncom's Lesson's in Leadership 'distinguished expert series'.
There is a slim chance that the "Convocations" - meetings of clergy and lay members of the Synod representing the separate York and Canterbury provinces of the Church - could veto the debate altogether.
But then the whole truth came out: Mandatory attendance at three convocations a year is a long-standing practice; Liberty wasn't giving Cruz special (or at least unique) treatment.
This is a matter of continuing controversy in Afghanistan, as is the convocation of the jirga itself.
This is a woman who was chosen to give the valedictory address at the Wellesley convocation.
