Monthly Archives: May 2010

29 April 2010 Dear Michael Driscoll, Waqar Ahmad, Margaret House, and Ed Esche, I am writing to convey my disbelief at your decision to close the philosophy department at Middlesex. As a current member of the Society of Fellows at … Continue reading →

3 May 2010 Dear Michael Driscoll, vice-chancellor of the university, Waqar Ahmad, deputy vice-chancellor, research and enterprise, Margaret House, deputy vice-chancellor, academic, and Ed Esche, dean of the School of Arts & Education The Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, … Continue reading →

Statement from Goldsmiths Sociology on the closure of philosophy at Middlesex 2 May 2010 To: Michael Driscoll, Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University We are academics in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London who are horrified by the decision to … Continue reading →

2 May 2010 at 15:57 From: 22 members of academic staff in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London To: Michael Driscoll We are academics in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 A number of weeks ago, I gave a talk at the regular CRMEP seminar that Peter Osborne has nurtured at Middlesex for as long as I can remember. The room in the Mansion Building was packed – … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear colleagues I am writing to you today – as have, I know, many others already – to express my personal shock and my professional dismay at the news of the planned closure of philosophy programmes at … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Professor Driscoll, Professor Ahmad, Professor House, and Professor Esche, I wish to add my voice to the wholly justified discontent about the proposed closure of the philosophy department at Middlesex University. It is one of the … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Professor Driscoll, It is as founding Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick that I wish to express my concern about the closure of the Philosophy programmes at Middlesex. Philosophy at Middlesex … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Mr. Driscoll, It was with disbelief that I read about the closure of the Philosophy programme at Middlesex. Philosophy at Middlesex has achieved some remarkable things, not least of which was to loosen the stranglehold of … Continue reading →

From: Tom <thomaseyers@googlemail.com> Date: 28 April 2010 22:44:47 GMT+01:00 To: “M.Driscoll@mdx.ac.uk” <M.Driscoll@mdx.ac.uk> Subject: Closure of philosophy Dear Professor Driscoll I was shocked and upset to hear that the University plans to close its philosophy programs. I’m a PhD student in … Continue reading →