Author Archives: phallward

29 April 2010 Dear Vice-Chancellor Michael Driscoll: I am writing to urge you to reverse your decision to close the Philosophy programmes at Middlesex University.  I visited The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex to lecture a … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 To: Michael Driscoll; Waqar Ahmad; Margaret House; Ed Esche Dear All, As someone working in the field of philosohy and literature I feel it my duty to protest as strongly as possible about your decision to close … Continue reading →

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 →