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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 > > > > -- Sarah Carpenter English Literature University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower, George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.