Convocation
Convocation is a formal service that marks the end of the academic year and celebrates the achievements of graduating Disciples House Scholars and ecumenical community members.
Held in the Chapel of the Holy Grail, the service is planned by the graduates, who also participate in the service. Family and friends join in the celebration, which continues with a festive buffet reception in the Common Room.
The 2009 Convocation was held on June 11. The speaker was W. Clark Gilpin, the Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology at the 
Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he previously served as Dean. He also is the former Dean of the Disciples Divinity House and currently leads DDH's seminar on Disciples History and Thought. Mr. Gilpin is a historian of Christianity who studies the cultural history of theology in England and America since the seventeenth century and the author of an intellectual biography of Roger Williams, the seventeenth-century advocate of religious liberty, and of A Preface to Theology. He is currently working on two books, one on the letter from prison as a religious genre in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, and another on solitude in American religious and literary history.
Recent speakers have included Don Browning, Ana Gobledale, Claudia Highbaugh, JoAnne Kagiwada, Hubert Locke, Daisy Machado, Holly McKissick, Mark Miller-McLemore, Stephanie Paulsell, David Vargas, Clark Williamson, and Geunhee Yu.
Convocation is held on the last Thursday evening of the spring quarter. It precedes the University’s Spring Convocation, which takes place in Harper Quadrangle. Divinity School graduates receive their degrees in the Friday afternoon session. The first DDH Convocation was held in 1933.
