Reinstate Chris Knight

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• Harriet Stone

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  • Its an absolute disgrace!
• Roberta Wiseman
• Emily Wyman
• Luc Steels

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  • The University of East London should be proud to have academics that are concerned with their community and put their research into practice. By dismissing Prof. Knight, the university of East London signals that it is more interested in catering to private financial organisations rather than helping to stimulate debate and canalising public anger through playful protest.
• Robert Kruszynski
• David Graeber

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  • The idea of suspending a professor for saying they'd like to see a revolution is absolutely chilling: by that standard, half the people whose work we teach would not themselves qualify to teach in our schools. It's all the more ridiculous considering everyone is perfectly will aware Chris is not an advocate of violence. Shutting down the Alternative Summit was absolutely disgraceful. This is precisely the kind of resistance to government policies - the thoughtful discussion of alternatives - that one would have thought universities were there to encourage. Does UEL really want to go down in history as opening a new page in the suppression of intellectual freedom and freedom of speech? Because if they continue this way, that's certainly what they will be most known for throughout the world.
• Jean Lassegue
• Tony Benn
• Oliver Tickell

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  • Universities should be places for open debate and exchange of ideas in society, not mere education factories. UEL must fulfill this broader mission and it needs people like Chris Knight to achieve that.
• Catherine Stephens
• DR GERRY WOLFF

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• Tigana

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  • The least I can say is that this university has had a total sense of humour failure.
• Moanna Wright

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  • I learned more from Professor Knight than I did from any other lecturer I had throughout my academic career. You are doing students a disservice by not having him as an active lecturer.
• Karl Diller

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  • I am surprised that British universities don't have a more robust tradition of freedom of speech. In America this would not happen without an uproar. Are you concerned about the international reputation of the University of East London?
• Simone Pika
• Laura K. Brown, Ph.D.
• Laura Williams
• Cynthia A. Pearson

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  • Professor Knight's work is important to the health of women around the world. Cindy Pearson, Executive Director, National Women's Health Network (U.S.)
• Amanda MacLean
• Laurie O'Connell
• Eleanor Leone
• Richard Wilkinson

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  • This is a time when UEL should be doing all it can to encourage debate and engagement with the problems facing society - not trying to prevent it.
• Andrew Fowler
• john davey
• Daniela Peluso

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  • University of Kent
• bella

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  • this is a disgrace and makes mockery of freedom of speech
• Toby Brown
• Dominic Mitchell

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  • Chris Knight is a researcher of international standing in the field that I study; the Origin and Evolution of Language. TheUniversity of East London should be proud to have him.
• Louise Salkeld
• Katrina Norton-Knight
• Jacqueline Woodward-Smith

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  • Chris Knight is the most inspiring lecturer that I have ever met and is an intelligent and caring man who speaks out against violence. It is refreshing, in this day and age, to meet an academic who engages in what is happening in the real world and is able to relate that to the world of academia. I have learned from Chris Knight that the study of anthropology can challenge our accepted 'norms' and change the world and I never thought that I would find that in a university. UEL should be proud to have him as a lecturer, proud that their courses are so relevant to our society, and should be seen to protrect free speech, rather than suppress it.
• Susanna Lafond
• Nick Rogers

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  • Chris's suspension is a outrageous assault on academic freedom.
• Camilla Power

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  • A vicious attack on science and revolution!
• Vanessa David
• lou riboh

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  • Reinstate Chris Knight in the name of free speech !
• Pauline Moat Bradley
• James Stone
• Leticia Molera-Anderson

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  • I chose UEL because of Chris Knight and I know many others who have as well.Sacking him will be very bad for the UELs reputation and our department,I have already considered transferring.LM-University of East London,BSc Anthropology
• Steve Birch

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  • Dismissing Chris Knight will reflect badly on UEL, it will show potential students that there is little freedom of opinion allowed to the teaching staff and students (something we all loved about UEL, and the reason many of us chose it) in a time when freedom of speech is being eroded by the state, traditionally academics lead where others fear, clearly UEL is no longer a place of leaning but a place of profits and business decisions.
• Emma Sullivan
• Sarah
• johnny

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  • ANT 352 is the best module EVER. it is A MUST for any anthropology student. Please reinstate Chris knight in the interest of the many anthropologists-to-be at UEL. The University Certificate in Anthropology (AI1001,AI1002) has been a stepping stone for the Bsc at UEL for many mature students; this and last years former RAG students graduated with 2.1 or First and continued their studies at TOP universities in UK, elevating the prestige of the University of East London.
• Cherie Abbott

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  • stop the foolishness and bring Chris Knight back into UEL so he can continue teaching and inspiring those that crave knowledge and understanding.
• Dessalles J-L.

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  • Prof. Knight is a great thinker, who authored one of the most impressive theory in anthropology. Please, let him free to speak !
• Miroslava Bobakova

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  • as I know, professor Chris Knight is one of the most devoted "renaissance" persons I have ever met. In these days of lack of personalities who would do things with passion and wisdom, he shows us how important is to be critical, active and collective. To open up democracy means to accept all possible alternatives because they can reveal the mirrors for tomorrows solutions we need.
• Mark Barrett
• Louise Chambers

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  • Chris Knights theories and teaching of the origins of culture is the heatbeat of UELs anthropology programme and has been the inspiration for so many of his past and present students to go on and seek out the truth of the origins of human symbolic culture. This situation has come about because he dared to speak out against those authorities that we all feel totally oppressed by but are too scared to say or do anything. UEL a modern and dynamic university should be embracing Chris, his sacking will be a cruel act of fear and total injustice
• Simin Erbel
• Gianantonio Bubu Candiani

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