{"id":5636,"date":"2020-01-29T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:31:58","slug":"convocation-mlk-jr-celebration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2020\/01\/29\/convocation-mlk-jr-celebration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation: MLK, Jr. Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>Gather for the annual MLK, Jr. Celebration Convocation featuring\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu\/faculty\/profile\/jds7b\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jalane Schmidt<\/a>, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.<\/p><p>Dr. Jalane Schmidt&#8217;s\u00a0research and teaching is focused upon African diaspora religions of the Caribbean and Latin America, and particularly festivity and ritual. Dr. Schmidt teaches courses which consider the effects of colonization and the slave trade upon religious practice in the Americas. In\u00a0her book project on 20th c. Cubans\u2019 devotion to their patron saint,\u00a0she examines religious, racial, and cultural hybridity in the Americas by interpreting the national expansion of this popular cult. In\u00a0her emerging research, she is investigating how the history of slavery is performed in spirit possession rituals and expressed in material culture. Particularly,\u00a0she is concerned with how contemporary mediums describe heightened sensory perception as a means for navigating traumatic emotional terrain.<\/p><p>A drum circle follows this convocation program in Lehman Auditorium from 11:30 a.m.-Noon.<\/p><p>For a complete program schedule, see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/mlk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MLK, Jr. Day of Service and Learning<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/03163713\/20200120-convocation-mlk-jr-day.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/03163713\/20200120-convocation-mlk-jr-day.mp3\"><\/audio><\/div><p>Gather for the annual MLK, Jr. Celebration Convocation featuring\u00a0Dr. Jalane Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Jalane Schmidt&#8217;s\u00a0research and teaching is focused upon African diaspora religions of the Caribbean and Latin America, and particularly festivity and ritual. Dr. Schmidt teaches courses which consider the effects of colonization and the....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[4444,5112],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convocation","tag-convocation","tag-mlk-2","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}