In Episode 2 of The Intersection, “The Work of Wondering,” chemist Nicole Bouvier-Brown of Loyola Marymount University and poet Philip Metres of John Carroll University explore the power of wonder to help people in higher education become more integrated and fulfilled.

What would happen if we consciously placed wonder at the center of all of our work in higher education? How might wonder be shared across the institutional structures that divide staff from faculty, students from administrators? And how can greater attention to the power of wonder help to make everyone in higher education more whole, together?

Hosted by Jennifer Abe, Loyola Marymount University | Sponsored by Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education | conversationsmagazine.org

In Episode 3 of The Intersection, “Creativity & Communion,” Rachel Mindrup, a visual artist at Creighton University Medical School, and Aldo Billingslea, an actor and theater professor at Santa Clara University, explore the relationship between creativity and community.

How can creativity help people in higher education to connect to their deepest desires and aspirations? And how can it become the source for nourishing growth into meaningful communities in the context of higher education?

Hosted by Jennifer Abe, Loyola Marymount University| Sponsored by Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education | conversationsmagazine.org

In this fourth and final episode of The Intersection, “Accepting the Gifts of Solitude & Mortality,” memoirist Howard Axelrod of Loyola University Chicago and religious studies scholar Gary Laderman of Emory University explore how the practice of solitude and the contemplation of mortality can help people to identify horizons of meaning in their lives and in their work.

How might the experience of solitude and the contemplation of mortality help people in their search for wholeness? Can a deeper sense of their physical embodiment enable people to become better thinkers? How can examining the boundaries and limits of consciousness help people to live with greater freedom and authenticity?

Hosted by Jennifer Abe, Loyola Marymount University | Sponsored by Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education | conversationsmagazine.org

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education hosted a virtual conversation with faculty from Jesuit institutions on ‘Reaching Across the Abortion Divide: Resources for Arguing Well on Campus in the Post-Roe Era.’

On Monday, October 3, 2022, the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education (publisher of Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education) hosted a virtual conversation on ways to navigate the crisis of community and belonging on college campuses today.

On Monday, May 9, 2022, the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education (publisher of Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education) hosted a virtual conversation on models and perspectives on the core curriculum from across U.S. Jesuit higher education.