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Faith, Justice & Reconciliation Assembly 2024

Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

July 16-19 
Loyola University Chicago 

This conference has been happening every 3-4 years since 2000.         
The Assembly includes keynote addresses, and panel and poster presentations. 
New this year are six Commissions comprised of teams of faculty and staff across the  
network; each Commission will present their work in panel format:  

  • Citizenship and Democracy 
  • Student Spiritual Growth and Mental Health - Dr. Marcus Mescher, Theology 
  • Prison Education 
  • Advancing a Shared Agenda for our Common Home  
  • Addressing the Legacy of Slavery and Oppression by Jesuit Institutions 
  • The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm - Dr. Kathleen Smythe, History 

Xavier faculty and staff scholarship selected by an Assembly peer review panel to be presented: 
 
Social Justice Dialogues: Creating Spaces of Global Encounter  
          Dr. Laney Bender-Slack, Education & Lauren DeVeau, Antonio Ruiz de Montoya Univ 

Attention, Reverence and Devotion: The Gifts of Our Ignatian Heritage & the Spiral Curriculum 
        Dr. Tom Knestrict, Education 

What Does the Bible Tell Us About Health, Healing and Healthcare? 
          Fr. Dan McDonald SJ Midwest Province & Dr. Debra Mooney, Mission & Ministry 

Cura Terrae: A 5th Care for Excellence in Jesuit Education    
          Dr. Debra Mooney, Mission & Ministry 

Taking It On: Ignatian Civic Engagement During Political Strife 
          Dr. Andrew Zolides, Communications 

How to Promote Interracial and Inter-Social Class Friendships Among College Students 
          Dr. Bashir Tofangsazi, Race, Intersectionality, Gender, and Sociology