Dear all
The editorial team of Film-Philosophy have written to the Vice-Chancellor's
Group at Middlesex University to protest against the unjustifiable decision
to close down one of the most vibrant and important Philosophy programmes in
the UK. (The text is included below and can be read on the F-P website.)
If you feel as strongly as we do, you may have already registered your
support for the campaign against closure by joining the 'Save Middlesex
Philosophy!' Facebook group -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119102561449990&ref=mf - but we'd also
urge you to write in protest to the Vice-Chancellor and his team:
- Vice-Chancellor of the University, Michael Driscoll, [log in to unmask];
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, Waqar Ahmad,
[log in to unmask];
- Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Margaret House, [log in to unmask];
- Dean of the School of Arts & Education, Ed Esche, [log in to unmask]
The relevant emails are listed here for ease of cut'n'paste:
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If you write, please blind copy (BCC) it to the campaign email:
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Many thanks and good luck to all involved,
Richard
Dr Richard Stamp
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Higher Degrees Tutor, Department of English Literature and Cultural Studies
School of Humanities and Cultural Industries
Bath Spa University
Newton St Loe
Bath BA2 9BN
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F-P LETTER TO MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
Dear Professors Driscoll, Ahmad, House and Esche
The editorial team at Film-Philosophy are shocked by the unjustifiable
decision by the senior management of Middlesex University to close down its
internationally important and influential Philosophy department.
As an Open Access journal in the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy and
Film, we publish international scholarly work and host an email discussion
salon with an international membership. We can attest to the global profile
of Middlesex Philosophy staff, research and teaching programmes in the work
that we publish and in the debates they help to shape. No other department
within your institution can claim this level of global recognition and
respect. More personally, and in common with many of our colleagues teaching
in Philosophy and related subjects in the UK and abroad, we have benefitted
from the excellent teaching, research and events produced by members of this
department.
What we canšt understand is how you could countenance damaging that
recognition and respect with the dubious claim that it provides to
'measureable' benefit to the university. What better measure can there be
than the international esteem and influence of the truly ground-breaking
work carried out by Middlesex Philosophy staff? To name only one very recent
example: the AHRC-funded project (carried out by Peter Hallward and his
colleagues) to archive and translate the influential French journal,
_Cahiers pour l'analyse_, which will be an invaluable resource for future
research, scholarship and pedagogy in this field. The high ranking of
Middlesex Philosophy in the most recent RAE testifies to the international
impact and importance
We believe that the name and reputation of Middlesex University is now at
stake, and it must be apparent to you that the international outrage at this
decision will only increase. It is not too late for you to repair and regain
this international respect by reversing your decision and demonstrating what
it is you all, as professors, profess to believe in: the value of the
university as a place for the open, rigorous and critical intellectual
scrutiny of our world.
Yours sincerely,
The Editorial Team
Film-Philosophy (www.film-philosophy.com/)
Dr David Sorfa, Liverpool John Moores University
Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University
Dr Havi Carel, University of the West of England
Dr Catherine Constable, University of Warwick
Dr Sarah Cooper, Kingšs College London
Dr David Martin-Jones, University of St Andrews
Dr Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick
Dr John Mullarkey, University of Dundee
Dr Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester
Dr Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University
Dr Damian Sutton, Glasgow School of Art
Dr Greg Tuck, University of the West of England
Dr Daniel Frampton, Founding Editor, UK
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