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In 2004, the College of Arts and Sciences, now the College of Arts and Humanities announced an initiative to develop a university-wide center for teaching and research in the humanities and arts. The center would focus especially on studies that are interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. Since 2005 it has sponsored or co-sponsored a series of colloquia, public lectures, and conferences, including:

Colloquia

March 2006	African Sage Philosophy. Prof. Gail Presbey (University of Detroit)
March 2006	Humanistic principles and argumentation. Prof. George Boger (Canisius College)
March 2006	The Way to Legitimize Modernity in Islam. Prof. Husain Kassim (UCF)
February 2006	Cognitive Sciences and Humanities. Prof. Stephen M. Fiore (UCF)
September 2005	Thinking Through the Body: Educating for the Humanities. Prof. Richard Shusterman. (Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University)
April 2005	The Schlock of Medievalism: The Bayeux Tapestry as Parody and Analogue in the Cinema. Professor Richard Burt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Public Lecture

April 2005

Gospel, Gibson, and the Death of Jesus. John Dominic Crossan. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UCF and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, DePaul University

Conference

February 2005

Africana Cultural Philosophy

Co-sponsored Events

January-March 2006	Co-sponsor of Between Earth and Sky: Isamu Noguchi Exhibit (Theo Lotz, Dept. of Art, curator).
Spring 2006	Participant in The Digital Humanities Forum, Dept of English
March 2, 2006	Co-sponsor of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Puerto Rican writer

For More Information

Bruce B. Janz
Associate Professor of Humanities
TEL: 407-823-5408
FAX: 407-823-6658
janzb@mail.ucf.edu