Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:36:31 -0500
Subject: [BOU:] on Koenigsberg
From: Michael Franklin <frank061-AT-umn.edu>


From: Mark Kelly <mgekelly-AT-hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 28, 2004  8:52:51  PM US/Central
To: Foucault List <foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Richard Koenigsberg
Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU

This is from a net source ( http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/), so
unsubstantiated, but I think there is sufficient reason to be concerned
about Koenigsberg:


In November of last year I responded to a call for conference papers 
under
the rubric of 'Symposium on the Psychological Interpretation of War,'
sponsored by the Library of Social Science in New York (Dr. Richard
Koenigsberg, Director). As this invitation appeared on my professional
list-serve, I had no reason to question the bona fides of this 
organization
(their website was also innocuous). The other participants (around 20 
total,
in two sessions), from multiple disciplines and major universities and
institutions here and abroad, also learned of this conference through 
their
professional list-serves and other networks. The conference took place 
last
week.

  The Library of Social Science, it turned out, was Dr. Koenigsberg's
  apartment living room in a run down corner of Elmhurst, Queens. The
  'Library', it seems, was not much more than a vanity project and
  sometime vendor of academic books at various professional organization
  conferences around the country. Incidentally, a $150.00 registration 
fee
  was charged. There were no stipends for travel or accommodations and no
  meals were provided (other than candy, fruit, and bottled water.) Dr.
  Koenigsberg's doctorate is, I surmised, in psychology or psychoanalysis
  but, in his own words, 'he has been studying Hitler for 30 years.'

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