<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Olá a todos</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Já agora junta-se esta informação ao "dossier" recém criado.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Abraços</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">FJP</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Carta a enviar ao "Times Higher Education"</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(as assinaturas presentes são de convidados e colaboradores regulares do&nbsp;Centre for Research in Modern European&nbsp;Philosophy / Middlesex University)&nbsp;</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></font><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Letter for the Times Higher Education</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i></i></font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">We the undersigned deplore the recent decision of Middlesex University to close all its Philosophy programmes, including its prestigious and successful MAs. The abrupt closure of these programmes is a matter of national and indeed international concern. Not only does it contradict the stated commitment of Middlesex University to promote 'research excellence', it represents a startling stage in the impoverishment of Philosophy provision in the UK.</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have participated in events organised by the Philosophy group at Middlesex and we can testify to its unique combination of strengths, and to the significant and distinctive contribution it makes to philosophy in the UK. Its set of MA programmes is currently the largest in the UK. Philosophy is the most prestigious and highest research-rated subject at Middlesex University. In RAE 2008 Middlesex was rated first in philosophy among post-1992 universities, with 65% of its research activity judged ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. It is widely recognised as one of the most important centres for the study of modern European philosophy anywhere in the English-speaking world.&nbsp; It is one of only a handful of Philosophy departments left in the UK that provides both research-driven and inclusive post-graduate teaching and supervision aimed at a wide range of students, specialist and non-specialist.</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We call on Middlesex University to reverse this damaging and ill-judged decision to close its Philosophy programmes, and to renew its commitment to widening participation in education and to excellence in research.</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Keith Ansell-Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Alain Badiou, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Etienne Balibar, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris-Nanterre &amp;&nbsp;Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California Irvine</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Miguel Beistegui, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick</font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics, Monash University</font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Andrew Bowie, Professor of German and Philosophy</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Judith Butler,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley.</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Susan Buck-Morss,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Jan Rock Zubrow ‘77 Professor of Government Cornell University,&nbsp;New York</font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Barbara Cassin, Directeur de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department, New&nbsp;School for Social Research, New York</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Christopher Fynsk,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Head of the School of Language and Literature, and Director of the&nbsp;Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Simon Glendinning,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Reader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics &amp;&nbsp;Director of the Forum for European Philosophy</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Boris Groys, Professor of Slavic and Russian Studies, New York University</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke University, NC</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Harry Harootunian – Emeritus Professor of History, Chicago and New York Universities</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Joanna Hodge,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Professor of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University<br></font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Claude Imbert, Emeritus Professor, l' Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Mandy Merck,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><i></i></font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dermot Moran, Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Michael Moriarty FBA, Centenary Professor of French Literature and Thought, Queen Mary,&nbsp;University of London</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Antonio Negri, philosopher and political scientist</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Jacques Ranciere, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris VIII</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Kristin Ross, Professor Comparative Literature, New York University</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Lynne Segal,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Anniversary Professor, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Peter Sloterdijk, Rektor der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Gayatri Spivak,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Isabelle Stengers, Professor of Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO, ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">James Williams, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Dundee</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Slavoj Zizek, Co-Director of the International Centre for Humanities, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><o:p></o:p></font></i></span></font></span></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Prière de diffuser largement avec la&nbsp;pétition online :&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.gopetition.com/p</font></i></span></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">etitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html</font></i></span></font></a></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">et les adresses&nbsp;mails des quatre "responsables" de la décision &nbsp;de fermeture du département de philosophie à Middlesex University:</font></i></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dean of the School of Arts &amp; Education, Ed Esche,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><a href="mailto:e.esche@mdx.ac.uk"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">e.esche@mdx.ac.uk</font></i></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">.&nbsp;</font></i></span></font></div></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Vice-Chancellor of the University, Michael Driscoll,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><a href="mailto:m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk</font></i></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">;<br>Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, Waqar Ahmad,</font></i></span></font><a href="mailto:w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk</font></i></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">;<br>Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, Margaret House,&nbsp;</font></i></span></font><a href="mailto:m.house@mdx.ac.uk"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">m.house@mdx.ac.uk</font></i></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">;</font></i></span></font></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style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