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When Mike Sell asked me to contribute to Critical Stages on the topic of “recent emigration in the field,” I had to make sure I understood. “Do you mean people like me,” I asked, “who have taken jobs outside the U.S.?” “Well yes,” he answered. “There's been quite a lot of informal discussion about this trend at various conferences and events.” Fair enough, but it has proven surprisingly difficult to quantify this phenomenon, and the data are partial and sometimes contradictory. There are a number of reasons why some American performance scholars may be choosing to work abroad now. Part personal, part professional, such reasons resist straight-ahead explanations. In what follows, I employ a somewhat paratactic structure to capture fragments of uneven cause and effect, finally placing the question of intellectual migration in the disciplinary experiences of Theodor Adorno during his period of exile in the United States.
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2. Ibid.
3. The first such assessment was held in 1992, followed by further cycles in 1996 and 2001. The 2007 round is reported to be the last such exercise in this form; a system of “metrics” has been discussed as replacement for highly time-consuming and bureaucratic procedures. Arts and humanities faculties are, of course, concerned that metrics are suited to the sciences and will disadvantage their disciplines. Further information about assessment reform can be found at the Higher Education Funding Council for England [www.hefce.ac.uk/research/assessment/reform/] (accessed 20 May 2007).
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