The Imperative to Love an AUB Mediterraneo Student Guide
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” – James Baldwin
In 2024, four AUB Mediterraneo student thought leaders came together for six weeks to contemplate and investigate what love has to do with the extensive scope of the heart. Leading with the idea that “you are what you love,” they explored identity by illuminating what they love, contributing their insights to
NAFSA’s International Educator magazine.
In our new series
The Imperative to Love: An AUB Mediterraneo Student Guide, six students picked up where the others left off by devoting eight months to:
- Examining their personal epistemologies of love
- Studying the work of visionary scholars, scientists, conservationists, theologians, and poets
- Engaging in weekly journaling and discussion
- Planning acts of kindness for themselves and others.
Featuring 3rd year students Ly Bui and Rosalyne Constantine, over the next eight weeks they’ll share their tours of the heart, and unveil topics including:
- The Imperative to Love
- What they Love about Pafos
- Ways to Cultivate Love
We approach a working definition of love with another reference to Writer and Civil Rights Activist James Baldwin:
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
Join us as Ly and Rosalyne map out their positions on love, leading us to the conclusion that there is always hope for those who open up and look.
