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http:\/\/mybyzantine.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/19\/save-the-department-of-byzantine-and-modern-greek-studies-at-kings-college-london\/<\/a><\/p>\n View Current Signatures<\/a> \u00a0 – \u00a0 Sign the Petition<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n To:\u00a0 Professor Richard Trainor, Principal, King\u0092s College London<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>We would like to express our deep concerns over the projected dismemberment of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King\u0092s College London. Although we recognise the need for King\u0092s to make savings, we fail to understand what long-term purpose is served by dismantling a department and allocating its members to two or more different units. Experience teaches that, when a subject area is dispersed around departments and faculties, it never gets priority and in the end loses its capacity and influence. It is only too likely that the university sector will experience further cuts and in such circumstances isolated specialities would be particularly vulnerable. The great strength of King\u0092s has always been that it is the only university in the UK to offer a combined programme in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, thereby emphasising the importance of continuity through the centuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0The ideal of Hellenism in its broadest sense, for which King\u0092s stands, is reflected in its Centre for Hellenic Studies and in the Koraes chair. As dismantling the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies would mean the end of a long and rich tradition, we urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to reconsider your plans.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n The Undersigned<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n View Current Signatures<\/a> The Save the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King’s<\/a> Petition to Professor Richard Trainor, Principal, King\u0092s College London was created by and written by Marc D. Lauxtermann<\/strong> (marc.lauxtermann@exeter.ox.ac.uk).\u00a0 This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com<\/a> as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc.<\/a> or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help<\/a> form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u03c0o\u03c3\u03c4o\u03bb\u03b7: \u03a0\u03b1\u03bdo\u03c2 I\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u00ed\u03b4\u03b7\u03c2 (K\u03c5\u03c0\u03c1o\u03c2) http:\/\/mybyzantine.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/19\/save-the-department-of-byzantine-and-modern-greek-studies-at-kings-college-london\/ View Current Signatures \u00a0 – \u00a0 Sign the Petition \u00a0 To:\u00a0 Professor Richard Trainor, Principal, King\u0092s College London \u00a0We would like to express our deep concerns over the projected dismemberment of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King\u0092s College London. Although we recognise the need for King\u0092s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-40278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vivvo-category-35","tag-75"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137416,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40278\/revisions\/137416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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