Foreword [Humanitas : volume 1]

Abstract

After an absence of more than two decades, the Journal of the Faculty of Arts, first published in 1957, is finally being re-launched under die new title Humanitas and in a different livery . Its long absence tells an impor- tant tale. Since the last issue of this Journal in 1977, the Faculty of Arts has gone through innumerable changes and extensive experiences, some of which were indeed traumatic. The Faculty of Arts was suppressed in 1981, and this brought about concomitant repercussions. Some of its members served in other Faculties for some time, while others carried out tasks away from the University Campus. In 1987 the Faculty of Arts began to路 function again when Professor Peter Serracino-Inglott, who had just been appointed Rector, took the necessary steps to re-instate the Faculties of Arts and Science.