Tag Social Analysis with Reflection
Across the country, Colleges and Universities are taking a hard look at how they came into being and at whose expense. Since Georgetown’s groundbreaking 2015 initiative[1] to examine the University’s founding and its relationship to slavery, many public and private… Continue Reading →
The Jesuits share a long and complicated history with the Native Communities of North and South America. In 1568, the first Jesuits came with Spanish soldiers to Florida in an ill-fated attempt to convert the Calusa people to Catholicism. By… Continue Reading →
One of the most profound things I have learned in this time of pandemic isolation, malaise, and desolation is the importance of prioritizing human connections in all aspects of my work. This comes somewhat organically to me as a director… Continue Reading →
Discourses surrounding sustainable development contain many different positions on what socio-economic transitions, or transformations, need to occur in order to prevent further environmental degradation and promote greater justice. Proponents of Green Growth advocate for technological advancements in carbon sequestration and… Continue Reading →
In these reflections on Karl Rahner, SJ and Bernard Lonergan, SJ, among the most influential Jesuit theologians of the twentieth century, we share the fruits of a year-long conversation. To enhance our community’s appreciation for the intellectual traditions behind Ignatian… Continue Reading →
As we mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s deadly emergence and the murder of Breonna Taylor, I’ve been reflecting on this passage from The Salt Eaters and its implications both at the personal and societal level. I’ve been asking, what must we take up and what must we let go as we fight against anti-Black racism and toward racial equity? How do we let go of the pain and hurt or perhaps, the unearned privilege and resources to allow wholeness and racial justice to come in?
Airah Balogun and Mutiu Fakorede are two Master’s students in USF’s International and Development Economics (IDEC) Master’s program who have had an unusual first year. Both are Nigerian, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been based in Lagos for the first year of their studies at USF.
Inspired by Laudato Si and the Universal Apostolic Preference to show care for our Common Home, the goal of my research is to affect user action on environmental justice through the means of an online, desktop, virtual environment. In this virtual setting, users embody first-person perspective, virtual scenarios that demonstrate the effects of environmental pollution and degradation.
As Lane Center Faculty Fellows this year, we had the opportunity to collaborate around Jesuit traditions in generative ways that eased the isolation we felt during the pandemic. As faculty members in the Department of Art + Architecture, we wished to respond to the unique challenges of 2020–21 through an art-making project that would bring together the department’s five programs and its faculty, staff, and students in a shared and mutually supportive enterprise.
A perspective on the mission and work of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition.