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Dear Colleagues -- more news about the letter-writing campaign and petition on this topic, forwarded from the Facebook group. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Save Paleography At King's London sent you a message on Facebook... Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:43:39 -0800 From: Facebook <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: noreply <[log in to unmask]> To: Abigail Ann Young <[log in to unmask]> Daniel DiCenso sent a message to the members of Save Paleography At King's London. -------------------- Subject: Letters to Save Palaeography Dear all, Many thanks for supporting the effort to 'Save Palaeography at King's London'. In addition to the Facebook Group and online Petition (http://www.facebook.com/l/e3d05;www.petitiononline.com/spkcl10/petition.html), please consider sending a letter by post to the Executive at King's. Word has it that the paper letters are beginning to get through. See the forward below from Nigel Palmer (Oxford) via Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard), which gives some encouraging news regarding the letters. Best, Dan _______________________________________________ Forwarded by Jeffrey Hamburger Dear Colleagues Writing letters to save palaeography If you hesitated about whether to write in protest at the 'strategic disinvestment' at King's College London which will lead to the abolition of the chair of Palaeography, with obvious consequences for the present encumbent, David Ganz, then please write now. There is still time (just), although it is very hard to know just when the real decisions are made, or what the chances are. I had a very courteous reply from Professor Palmowski, from which it was evident that he had read some of our letters, and that they are/were reviewing the position. There have been some very good letters. My *impression* is that the international protest is not being ignored, so even if you are skeptical about the chances, it is still worth trying. Trainor and Palmowski are both scholars of repute with a background in the Humanities, so you can write in any language (it may even increase the impact to have foreign languages, who can know?!). The collection of signatures is also going well, I was no. 1370 when I signed on this afternoon. There are two lists, the second very easy to access: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=303202385890 and http://www.facebook.com/l/e3d05;www.petitiononline.com/spkcl10/petition.html Letters (in case you haven't yet written) should be posted to: Professor Rick Trainor, The Principal, King’s College, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS ([log in to unmask]) and copy by email attachment to Professor Jan Palmowski, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities ([log in to unmask]). This email is just my private initiative, but I have had a lot of conversations over the last day or so and am aware that some people have been hesitating. My advice is to present arguments, from your own particular perspective, and to do so firmly and courteously, on the assumption that something might still be achieved. Yours, -- Nigel F. Palmer, Professor of Medieval German, St Edmund Hall, Oxford OX1 4AR _______________________________________________ -- Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture Chair, Medieval Studies Committee Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138 -------------------- -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ 170 St George St Ste. 810/ Toronto Ontario Canada/ M5R 2M8 Telephone: 416-978-6500 (after 04/01/2010) / FAX: 416-978-6504 (as of 16/12/2009) [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page