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	<title>Love of History &#187; petition</title>
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		<title>Humanities and Social Sciences matter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not already signed the petition, I urge you to do so NOW! The University cuts we are going through will not make substantial difference to the overall budget, while they may cause chaos to Humanities and Social Sciences. Adam Smith from UCL is collecting signatures, so that we may avoid the worst. Specifically, he says that: &#8220;If you haven&#8217;t already, take a look at this site http://humanitiesmatter.wordpress.com/ and if you agree with the general thrust of it, please sign the petition and circulate as widely as possible. A lot of the problem with defending humanities in universities is that we don&#8217;t all agree about the best arguments to use &#8212; whether to &#8216;play their game&#8217; and make the case on the grounds of our contribution to the economy, or whether to argue on the basis of the intrinsic social &#38; cultural value of humanities a la Stefan Collini. This site is trying to build a coalition bringing together everyone who believes that HE teaching in humanities should be publicly supported, for whatever reason. Obviously e-petitions are unlikely in themselves to change policy any more than chucking fire extinguishers will, but scientists have quite rightly mobilised effectively behind &#8220;Science is Vital&#8221; and if humanities and social scientists don&#8217;t make similar efforts I think we&#8217;ll be even more vulnerable than we are already. At the very least it&#8217;s hard to see it doing any harm&#8230;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of the Humanities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Osborne brought to my attention the newly launched petition in defence of the humanities here, accessible via http://humanitiesmatter.wordpress.com/ with the hope that many classicists will sign up to this. It looks like a group of academics already took the initiative in the UK to defend the Humanities subjects across our universities. It is a worthy cause and ought to be honoured. If you wish, you can also leave a donation for the website but it is not compulsory.]]></description>
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