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Thanks for a useful link! Buried in the comments section is a link to a Facebook group for this cause -- <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=303202385890&ref=share> Sarah Carpenter wrote: > This link explains a little more: > > http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/01/university-cuts-redundancies-and-byebye-palaeography.html > > > Abigail Ann Young wrote: >> Dear friends, >> >> I just received this troubling message by way of the Pontifical >> Institute mailing list. I would especially urge colleagues who are in >> the UK to write in protest of this decision. >> >> Abigail >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Fw: Paleography to be eliminated at King's College London >> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:55:46 -0500 >> From: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]> >> Organisation: University of Toronto >> To: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Aden Kumler <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> *To:* Barbara North <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> *Sent:* Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:01 PM >> *Subject:* Paleography to be eliminated at King's College London >> >> >> Dear Barbara, >> >> would you please send the message below to the PIMS mailing list. It >> concerns a grave situation at King's College London that will be of >> pressing concern to the PIMS community. >> >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> Please see below an email from Jeffrey Hamburger, and a letter >> forwarded by him, that together summarize the terrible news regarding >> the elimination of the Chair in Paleography at King's College London >> (the only endowed chair in paleography in the UK) as part of a larger >> financial re-organization scheme. >> >> I hope you will take a few minutes to write a letter asserting that >> the teaching of paleography is essential for the future of medieval >> studies and to strongly urge Professor Rick Trainor, the Principal of >> King's College, to revisit the (terrible) decision that has been >> taken. Please do not delay: time is of the essence! >> >> Letters should be sent to Professor Trainor and copied to Professor >> Jan Palmowski, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. The >> relevant mailing addresses are provided in the last line below. >> >> With my best wishes, >> Aden Kumler >> >> >> _Forwarded message from Jeffrey Hamburger:_ >> >> Dear colleagues, >> The letter below brings bad news. I normally do not leap into such >> petition drives, but in this case I think it behooves all of us to >> read it and to act on it by writing a stiff letter of protest to the >> persons named as quickly as possible. If you, in turn, know of other >> groups (beyond Apices, whence this comes) to which this could be >> circulated, please do so immediately. >> >> Yours, Jeffrey Hamburger >> >> >> King’s College London is undertaking what they call ‘strategic >> disinvestment’ and have informed our colleague, David Ganz, on >> Tuesday that funding for the Chair in Palaeography will cease from 31 >> August this year, when David will be out of a job. This is part of a >> wider context whereby all academic staff in the School of Arts and >> Humanities at King’s have to re-apply for their own jobs before the >> 1st March. They think this the “most humane way” of losing 22 >> academic posts. >> >> King’s Chair is the only established chair in Palaeography in the UK >> (held by our late members Julian Brown and Tilly de la Mare). I am, >> naturally, writing on behalf of the Comite to express dismay at the >> loss of the Chair but the more people who write in protest the better. >> >> Please write to Professor Rick Trainor, The Principal, King’s >> College, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS and copy to Professor Jan >> Palmowski, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. >> >> >> >> >> Aden Kumler >> Assistant Professor >> Department of Art History >> University of Chicago >> 266 Cochrane Woods Art Center >> 5540 South Greenwood Avenue >> Chicago, IL 60637 >> tel: 773.702.0266 / fax: 773.702.5901 >> >> >> >> > -- 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