From: lrolin-AT-telusplanet.net
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:32:38 -0700
Subject: Re: [BOU:] on Koenigsberg


Would you say that Dr. Koenigsberg lacks the cultural capital and perhaps also 
the material capital to make the claims he does?

Louise Rolingher
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History and Classics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta

Quoting 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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