Save Goldsmiths' Contemporary Thought Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-goldsmiths-contemporary-thought.html Online petition signatures en-us Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:41 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition susana serrano [Signature #581] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8116640?utm_medium=rss WE SUPPORT CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT!

]]> Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:31:44 UTC 8116640 Mrs. Eylem Canaslan [Signature #580] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8102965?utm_medium=rss Though I have had and probably will have no chance to attend Caygill's seminar on Contemporary Thought, I support the Contemporary Thought petition, because I believe that despite all attacks, philosophy and humanities always keep existing even when fictive departments like business and marketing vanish off with the capitalism itself

]]> Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:42:46 UTC 8102965 Dr Keya Ganguly [Signature #579] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8091666?utm_medium=rss The importance of this seminar in combatting contemporary pieties both within and without the academy cannot be overstated; please reinstate it.

]]> Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:05:02 UTC 8091666 Yoni Molad [Signature #578] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8064349?utm_medium=rss If by closing down the seminar on Contemporary thought, the administrators of the university are implying that indeeed the contemporary world does not give much to think about, they might have a point. Close whatever classes you want- philosophyand its passions, are eternal

]]> Sun, 4 Jul 2010 02:54:10 UTC 8064349 Daniela Tanner Hernandez [Signature #577] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8037889?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:40:31 UTC 8037889 Ms Betty Nigianni [Signature #576] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8036605?utm_medium=rss Support Contemporary Thought!

]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:29:19 UTC 8036605 Mr Michal Jaworski [Signature #575] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8021370?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is important for general culture even if it doesn't directly translate to employable skills. Britain philosophy contributed greatly to European philosophical tradition and should strive to maintain that in the future.

]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:04:19 UTC 8021370 Mr DJ Pillai [Signature #574] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8020507?utm_medium=rss The closing down of forums like these that enable our engagement with contemporary thought must be met with militant resistance at all levels.

]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:51:54 UTC 8020507 Ms Niki Kyriakidou [Signature #573] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8019454?utm_medium=rss I attended this seminar as a graduate student at Goldsmiths' and found it an invaluable and memorable experience. Today we need engagement with philosophical thinking more than ever.

]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:21:26 UTC 8019454 Michael Graubart [Signature #572] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8019195?utm_medium=rss The study of history without a serious engagement with the philosophy of history and historicity becomes a trivial assembly of so-called 'facts'. This course must go on.

]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:18:20 UTC 8019195 Daniel Wolpert [Signature #571] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8005997?utm_medium=rss Howard Caygill's course is an asset to Goldsmiths, perhaps some savings could be made by dropping people who make bad adminstartive decisions, instead?

]]> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:42:19 UTC 8005997 Mr Dan Taylor [Signature #570] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7990851?utm_medium=rss I am a student about to begin the MA Cultural Studies, and removing Caygill's insightful, innovative and incisive seminar will force me to seriously question Goldsmiths' commitment to philosophy and critical thought.

]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:11:36 UTC 7990851 Mr Christopher Allsobrook [Signature #569] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7985909?utm_medium=rss It would be a real shame to shut down such an influential and well-renowned programme that is so central to the kind of teaching that attracts so much attention to Goldsmiths.

]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:57:35 UTC 7985909 Dr. Diane M. Nelson [Signature #568] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7965895?utm_medium=rss Please do not be penny wise and pound foolish. These decisions are undermining the intellectual infrastructure of Euro-American academia. What is torn asunder now will be difficult to rebuild in the future.

]]> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:38:28 UTC 7965895 Dr John Croft [Signature #567] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7953073?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:36:43 UTC 7953073 Mr Chris Heppell [Signature #566] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7947338?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:45:06 UTC 7947338 Kenneth Reinhard [Signature #565] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7936560?utm_medium=rss Another shocking elimination of an excellent program.

]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:07:07 UTC 7936560 DR Emma Barker [Signature #564] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7934135?utm_medium=rss This short-sighted decision should be reconsidered.

]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:01:57 UTC 7934135 sonia bridge [Signature #563] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7929200?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:43:11 UTC 7929200 Mr Sam Longworth [Signature #562] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7926562?utm_medium=rss When studying at Goldsmiths I found this seminar of great value. To hear that it could be cut is shocking!

]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:20:53 UTC 7926562 Mr Ewan John Robertson [Signature #561] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7924151?utm_medium=rss I personally feel that such a course, and indeed the wider humanities, are key to the development of knowledge and thought, and should be considered a key part of the human experience, not driven from academic settings.

]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:58:45 UTC 7924151 Karen Kurczynski [Signature #560] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7917704?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:36:59 UTC 7917704 Dr Oliver Feltham [Signature #559] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7916808?utm_medium=rss This is an extremely shortsighted and deleterious decision by the History Department at Goldsmiths. Howard Caygill's class in Contemporary Thought was one of the few early places in England where the importance of Alain Badiou's philosophy was recognized and welcomed. Howard Caygill is a distinguished scholar and a true cosmopolitan.

]]> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:07:57 UTC 7916808 Prof Vivienne Jabri [Signature #558] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7916524?utm_medium=rss I know from student feedback that Howard Caygill's Contemporary Thought seminar has been an exceptionally valuable resource for humanities and social science students engaged in critical social and political thought. This is an extremely short sighted decision and very surprising, coming from Goldsmiths.

]]> Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:01:33 UTC 7916524 Panagiotis Georgiadis [Signature #557] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7916287?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:58:41 UTC 7916287 MR Adam Broinowski [Signature #556] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7915238?utm_medium=rss First they came for Middlesex...

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:29:14 UTC 7915238 Mr stiegler bernard [Signature #555] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7913647?utm_medium=rss This decision is an example (very surprising from Golsmiths) of a process of proletarianization of the world which destroies it - at the moment in which we need much more than ever to developp the critical theory

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:00:07 UTC 7913647 Claire Walsh [Signature #554] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7913452?utm_medium=rss This is a short-sighted insult to original and exciting scholarship: the decision must be reversed.

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:21:12 UTC 7913452 Dr Etienne Balibar [Signature #553] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7912515?utm_medium=rss the assault on humanities and especially philosophy in colleges and humanities is gaining momentum, so must our solidarity and protest

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:58:03 UTC 7912515 mr jacob chamberlain [Signature #552] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7912429?utm_medium=rss Please maintain the integrity of Goldsmiths by maintaining such world class invaluable programs.

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:41:59 UTC 7912429 mr josep almudever-chanza [Signature #551] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7911611?utm_medium=rss no more attrocities against contemporary thought

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:33:24 UTC 7911611 Ms Jihoi Lee [Signature #550] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7911156?utm_medium=rss viva la philosophie!

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:38:35 UTC 7911156 Dr Josephine Berry Slater [Signature #549] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7910516?utm_medium=rss The decision to cut the humanities is illogical and self-defeating. There should be an open and transparent process of considering if, how and where to cut, instead of these arbitrary decisions against high quality education.

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:19:39 UTC 7910516 Dr Steven Marchant [Signature #548] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7909347?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:47:22 UTC 7909347 Dr David Johnson [Signature #547] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7909143?utm_medium=rss Threats to Howard Caygill's excellent teaching must be resisted.

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:50:42 UTC 7909143 Ms Meher Mirza [Signature #546] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7908692?utm_medium=rss Save the seminar! Save the world!

]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:08:59 UTC 7908692 L. Calin [Signature #545] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7907792?utm_medium=rss hmm

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:49:13 UTC 7907792 Mr Hugo Drochon [Signature #544] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7907642?utm_medium=rss Both Howard Caygill and his course are excellent and should be preserved. The trend to shutting down philosophy depts must be stopped.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:18:02 UTC 7907642 Dr Jody Berland [Signature #543] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7906199?utm_medium=rss UK university governance is setting an appalling example for the international academy through its short-sighted dismissal of research and pedagogy in the humanities.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:28:56 UTC 7906199 Miss Grace Shortland [Signature #542] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7904464?utm_medium=rss Save Goldsmiths' Contemporary Thought

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:10:37 UTC 7904464 Mr Matthew Hawkins [Signature #541] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7904067?utm_medium=rss ,

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:32:42 UTC 7904067 Dr Kostas Koukouzelis [Signature #540] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7903100?utm_medium=rss I was privileged enough to have attended Howard's CT seminar in the past. This seminar, under Howard's exemplar presence (not guidance) managed to make people who haven't done philosophy before start loving it, and those who have been taught philosophy in the past rethink philosophy's own language.

Unforgettable!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:51:31 UTC 7903100 Mr Simon Deakin [Signature #539] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7903063?utm_medium=rss I'm a PHD student at Leeds University, I did an MA in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, an MFA at the Slade, and I've been teaching and practising in Europe for a decade. Dr. Caygill suggested to me his support for philosophy as a social process of elucidation, not as investment into personalities. From him I've come to see Cultural History as a matter of interpretation best initiated in groups; and that the explicative impulse toward the teaching of philosophy resists personal self-indulgence.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:48:10 UTC 7903063 Miss Hipolina Joseph [Signature #538] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7902656?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:11:36 UTC 7902656 John Kraniauskas [Signature #537] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7902387?utm_medium=rss More crass academic vandalism!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:47:11 UTC 7902387 Demetra Christopoulou [Signature #536] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901696?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:49:52 UTC 7901696 Anonymous [Signature #535] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901645?utm_medium=rss yes

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:45:10 UTC 7901645 Dr Brian Holmes [Signature #534] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901423?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is one of the chief navigational instruments whereby societies orient themselves in changing and dangerous environment. To eradicate its practice today, when our societies are faced by sweeping transformations, is to perform a deliberate self-blinding. On the contrary, a general inquiry into the present crisis is urgent. A strong contribution can still be made by Goldsmith's, whose influence would be great if it is not squandered through this kind of senseless cut.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:27:03 UTC 7901423 Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou [Signature #533] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901301?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:16:54 UTC 7901301 Dr Elisabeth Simbuerger [Signature #532] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901069?utm_medium=rss Thinking is much needed for the future! Keep philosophy alive in the UK - HE management and the impact factor policy are destroying academia!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:01:22 UTC 7901069 Dr James Boaden [Signature #531] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7901025?utm_medium=rss The suggested cuts are a further blow in an erosion of the humanities that must be stopped.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:56:15 UTC 7901025 Prof Alex Potts [Signature #530] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7900502?utm_medium=rss The proposed closure not only represents a travesty of academic values. In the context of the threat being mounted to other courses of this kind in UK universities, it contributes to a serious undermining of any properly imaginative and thoughtful approach to the study of philosophy - or of the humanities more generally.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:00:33 UTC 7900502 Prof. Yosefa Loshitzky [Signature #529] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7900498?utm_medium=rss This is an escalation in the war against critical thought/thinking!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:59:58 UTC 7900498 Prof Babette Babich [Signature #528] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7900423?utm_medium=rss The range and quality of Howard Caygill's work is first caliber: this is an outstanding scholar whose work is of the most rigorous and careful kind, brilliant on Kant, cutting edge on Benjamin and aesthetics (which, given Benjamin's popularity, is saying a lot), Levinas, Nietzsche and so on and on -- and who, beyond this, informed by this, teaches his courses from a perspective on intellectual history that is simply breathtaking. Howard Caygill is a singular scholar and national resource.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:52:10 UTC 7900423 Prof Stephen Melville [Signature #527] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7900367?utm_medium=rss Professor emeritus
Dept of history of art
The Ohio state university

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:46:10 UTC 7900367 mr stewart brown [Signature #526] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7900000?utm_medium=rss Save Goldsmiths' Contemporary Thought!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:51:11 UTC 7900000 Dr Patricia McManus [Signature #525] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899999?utm_medium=rss Goldsmiths - take a leaf out of the campaigns at Sussex and at Middlesex: organise the resistance.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:50:59 UTC 7899999 Dr Timothy Hall [Signature #524] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899936?utm_medium=rss The loss of this seminar and MA programme is a serious loss to the intellectual life of this country. The seminar was a hub for academics and students alike with an interest in contemporary thought and Prof. Caygill is figure of international importance and renown. Please reverse this ill thought out decision. Those that took this decision should consider their futures.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:40:31 UTC 7899936 Ms Nana Larsen [Signature #523] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899783?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:16:28 UTC 7899783 Prof Margaret Iversen [Signature #522] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899658?utm_medium=rss Prof Caygill is one of the most prestigious and respected academics in the Humanities at Goldsmiths

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:53:45 UTC 7899658 julia biggane [Signature #521] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899657?utm_medium=rss please preserve this valuable course; intelelctual life at Goldsmiths will be much the poorer for it

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:53:39 UTC 7899657 Cameron Leonard [Signature #520] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899638?utm_medium=rss First Middlesex, now Goldsmiths

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:50:05 UTC 7899638 Iris Balija [Signature #519] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899413?utm_medium=rss Howard Cayghill is an outstanding lecturer teaching a unique and valuable course, which, if cut, would be a great loss to his students and the integrity of Goldsmith's curriculum. I sincerely hope that the decision to cut the course is reversed.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:16:13 UTC 7899413 Mr Vasilis Gravanis [Signature #518] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899380?utm_medium=rss "They" feel that human beeings started thinking again in great numbers! It is very dangerous for "them". They will not win in any way by fighting philosophy.

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 04:13:08 UTC 7899380 Valeria Bonfiglio [Signature #517] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7899176?utm_medium=rss Keep it alive!

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:41:53 UTC 7899176 Dr David Nowell-Smith [Signature #516] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7898610?utm_medium=rss facebook groups against barbarism

]]> Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:42:30 UTC 7898610 Mr Ewan Jones [Signature #515] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7898119?utm_medium=rss Solidarity!

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:44:47 UTC 7898119 Ms Jo Daniell [Signature #514] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7897178?utm_medium=rss xx

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:20:37 UTC 7897178 Prof Ahuvia Kahane [Signature #513] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7894793?utm_medium=rss Keep this important course

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:50:01 UTC 7894793 Dr France Grenaudier-Klijn [Signature #512] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7894617?utm_medium=rss Philosophy, and the Humanities in general, teach us how to think, how to perceive the world, how to appreciate it in old its beauty, contradictions and complexiness. Given the state of the world today, it seems to me that we need it more than before. Universities should stand behind their Humanities staff.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:32:20 UTC 7894617 Dr Senija Causevic [Signature #511] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7894394?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:02:12 UTC 7894394 Katherine Maich [Signature #510] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7894384?utm_medium=rss Save Contemporary Thought!

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:00:09 UTC 7894384 Jeff Heydon [Signature #509] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7894221?utm_medium=rss The rising tide against critical thought in the UK is deeply disturbing. Please don't let Goldsmiths become part of the problem.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 03:35:31 UTC 7894221 Miss K Doyle [Signature #508] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7893752?utm_medium=rss -

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:31:30 UTC 7893752 Mr Enis Oktay [Signature #507] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7893466?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:00:15 UTC 7893466 Ms Lindsay Crisp [Signature #506] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7893148?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:56:57 UTC 7893148 Dr Paul Maltby [Signature #505] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892930?utm_medium=rss Prof. H. Caygill is an eminent scholar, whose MA seminar in contemporary thought should be honored, not axed.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:19:25 UTC 7892930 Dr Jamie Heckert [Signature #504] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892877?utm_medium=rss I SUPPORT CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT!

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:11:47 UTC 7892877 Dr Emanuela Bianchi [Signature #503] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892731?utm_medium=rss Save Contemporary Thought at Goldsmiths.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:54:11 UTC 7892731 Dr Karen Feldman [Signature #502] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892726?utm_medium=rss Yes

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:53:06 UTC 7892726 Dr David Kazanjian [Signature #501] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892664?utm_medium=rss Save Contemporary Thought!

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:44:15 UTC 7892664 Dr. Clara Pacquet [Signature #500] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892647?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:41:43 UTC 7892647 Dr Min Wild [Signature #499] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892577?utm_medium=rss Contemporary philosophical thought will be much poorer without seminars and programmes like this.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:32:52 UTC 7892577 mr ali alizadeh [Signature #498] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892533?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:26:46 UTC 7892533 Miss Susan Fitzpatrick [Signature #497] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892485?utm_medium=rss At the present time, when more and more universities are closing down subject areas that are of the most fundamental importance to the social sciences, I sincerely hope that Goldsmiths has the imagination to protect the contemporary thought module.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:18:50 UTC 7892485 Dr. Graham MacPhee [Signature #496] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892299?utm_medium=rss This is a world class course that is respected internationally. Professor Caygill's teaching and research are especially valuable for opening up philosophy to different disciplines and new audiences.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:50:59 UTC 7892299 David Reason [Signature #495] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7892191?utm_medium=rss I am dismayed to learn of the proposed closure of Howard Cargill's courses in Contemporary Thought and Cultural History. These are important courses, not least because they explain the bases of critical thinking about the fundamental frameworks of academic disciplines and subjects. Not only are they stimulating and sanitary courses in their own right, but their absence in the university curriculum leaves students ill-equipped to pursue independent creative thought.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:32:17 UTC 7892191 Miss Anonymous [Signature #494] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7891933?utm_medium=rss I believe these courses to be integral to the provision and reputation of the department.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:59:59 UTC 7891933 Mr George Collins [Signature #493] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7891917?utm_medium=rss It would appear they've decided to start with the very best. This is a shocking reversal of values.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:58:07 UTC 7891917 Anna Antaloudaki [Signature #492] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7891312?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:46:37 UTC 7891312 Dr Will Montgomery [Signature #491] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7891151?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:29:25 UTC 7891151 Stella Paschalidou [Signature #490] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7891087?utm_medium=rss Don't cut down on thought.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:22:25 UTC 7891087 Mr Aecio Amaral [Signature #489] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890900?utm_medium=rss I attended Contemporary Thought from 2007 to 2009. As an oversea and non-History department-based research student at Goldsmiths, I could see why the course is both internationally aclaimed by its academic excellence, and the best and most attractive course in college.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:05:57 UTC 7890900 miss Catarina Oliveira [Signature #488] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890883?utm_medium=rss Save Goldsmiths' Contemporary Thought

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:04:00 UTC 7890883 Professor Michael Syrotinski [Signature #487] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890699?utm_medium=rss This is a very short-sighted and small-minded decision on the part of the senior management at Goldsmith's. We all know times are tough economically, but it is a sign of weakness and cowardice rather than of real academic leadership when programmes of which the university should be bursting with pride are simply cut because they are seen as so-called 'soft' targets..

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:43:22 UTC 7890699 Miss Sophie Baker [Signature #486] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890696?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:42:56 UTC 7890696 Dr Maxwell Stevenson [Signature #485] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890662?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:39:02 UTC 7890662 professor james powderly [Signature #484] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890648?utm_medium=rss “Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”

Alfred Whitney Griswold

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:37:29 UTC 7890648 Dr Lars Iyer [Signature #483] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890584?utm_medium=rss The closure of Howard Caygill's Contemporary Thought would be a great loss to philosophy in the UK.

]]> Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:20 UTC 7890584 Roger Simmonds [Signature #482] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7890580?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:04 UTC 7890580