Today´s news
concerns the plan of the Swedish government to stop funding the Mediterranean Institutes
at Athens, Rome and Istanbul from 2017 onwards. This budget cut would force all
three research Institutes to close down. As you will see, a number of classicists
has called attention to the issue and you are asked to sign a petition if you
think the institutes´ scientific as well as educational work is worth saving.
See below
for further information! Also notice the instructions on how to sign the
petition in Swedish.
Dear
colleagues,
Yesterday
[23.10.14] the Swedish Government announced that they will end all state
funding for the Swedish Institutes at Athens, Rome and Istanbul from 2017. Our
research Institutes have no private funding and will therefore have to close
down and terminate their work within two years.
The decision
has been made without any prior consultation or investigation of the consequences:
the Institutes will not be able to fulfill their responsibilities of taking
care of archaeological material or sites in the Mediterranean and providing
education with the fields of Classical Archaeology, Classics, Art History,
Architecture and Social sciences, nor to conduct and publish research, give
conferences, host cultural activities, take part in heritage management or run
our research libraries in the Mediterranean countries.
The decision
would be a huge tragedy for Classical research and education in Sweden and we
ask you to consider signing the petition against it:
http://www.namninsamling.com/site/get.asp?Medelhavsinstitut#.VElipDs-IkA.facebook
Please enter
through "Skriv på listan" (Sign the list)
Add your
"förnamn" (name), "efternamn" (surname), emailadress (for
verification only), "postort" (city), and "ämne/titel"
(title/subject). Press "spara" (save) and sign through the
verification email.
Thank you
for your support,
Jenni
Hjohlman
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