What Could We Do?

This is a good question. The list of possible activities is endless, but of course we can't do everything. The exciting thing about working with many people on campus is that many ideas together can be better than any one person's ideas alone. Here's my dream (no doubt it will be amended by other peoples' dreams, and that's fine). I am under no illusion that all this will happen tomorrow - some of these are the dreams of a fully fledged and mature center. But we have to start somewhere.

Governance and Infrastructure

1. Physical space both on and off campus.
   
   
2. Administrative support.
   
   
3. Membership in the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.
   
   
4. A board of advisors from across the humanities disciplines and from other interested units, such as the Honors College and the Library, that can support the activities of the center, champion the center on campus and with funders, and decide policy.
   
   
5. An endowment base to support operations and provide financial stability.

Activities

1. An established visiting scholar series.
   
   
2. An established lecture/colloquium series, with events for both campus people and community people.
   
   
3. Archival, gallery, and resource base to support interdisciplinary research and creative work.
   
   
4. Periodic conferences on interdisciplinary topics.
   
   
5. Aids to scholarship and publication for faculty.
   
   
6. A series of "nodes" of research on campus, in the form of working groups and research teams.
   
   
7. Some form of interaction with the community in a way other than lectures (e.g. programs for specific groups, collaboration with community groups).
   
   
8. Involvement in and promotion of graduate programs in the humanities at UCF.
   
   
9. Supporting connections in the humanities between UCF and projects in other countries. Help enhance the international reach of UCF humanities.