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The Humanities Center is a non-vocational, un-combed approach to education and university be-ing. Mingling in the margins, it is an un-disciplinary place, playing in the puddles created by the discovery of the oozing boundaries that characterize the Humanities. Jumping on the trampolinic tension between the intensities of concentration and the intensities of connection, we invite you to find these spaces between the disciplines, the space where the sparks of intellectual excitement fly, igniting the pleasures and passions of university life.

With this in brain, the Humanities Center is anti-'work hard, play hard' because of its division of work and play, choosing to focus on play of work and the work of play, perhaps re-inventing the very meaning of intellectual work. At this, we focus on movement, action, fluidity, disheveledment and the mingling of bodies, minds, and ideas. Developing a continual re-orientation toward exploratory uncoothness in action, the Humanities Center is faculty, students, and staff cultivating the empowerment that is verb-izing the planet through rumination on connection and community, splashing in the messiness of the intellectual foolery that is academia, the turbulence that is engaged intellectuality.

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"...the true college will ever have one goal,--not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes."

--W.E.B. Du Bois
"Of the Wings of Atalanta"
The Souls of Black Folk
1903

Last update: September 3, 2008