Re: Society for Classical Studies 2019
John Lauritsen <[email protected]>
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The third Dreher article, which I left off in my original post: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Fdreher%2Ffighting-to-the-death-over-scraps%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C83ba0b95934941e2333b08d68d70f5df%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636851913634511806&sdata=ALUHdTYbPCC5%2FIE5EOyA6HxHzOhrxqExjM6sPVrj2mY%3D&reserved=0 John Lauritsen, Independent Scholar. On 2/7/19 7:11 PM, John Lauritsen wrote: > Three articles by Rod Dreher in _The American Conservative_ > discuss the imbroglio at the recent SCS conference. The first article > has links to various reports: > > 29 January 2019: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Fdreher%2Fprinceton-professor-kill-the-racist-classics%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C83ba0b95934941e2333b08d68d70f5df%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636851913634511806&sdata=l3j18wEeRPW0xCYzYiza735w%2BwmRS59RI0Oq5y%2FO0U0%3D&reserved=0 > > > 30 January 2019: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Fdreher%2Fclassics-studies-no-country-for-white-men%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C83ba0b95934941e2333b08d68d70f5df%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636851913634511806&sdata=jBonud2XaE7J1YYHs6UyH65lCcg7QYUzQWFqt7Fdv6c%3D&reserved=0 > > > 1 February 2019: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Fdreher%2Fprinceton-professor-kill-the-racist-classics%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40LSV.UKY.EDU%7C83ba0b95934941e2333b08d68d70f5df%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636851913634521815&sdata=sYi3oodPzGskbGhWR%2FB0eNlzVmQYTlAEZqtN%2F5wsXvc%3D&reserved=0 > > > My own position is that I suspend judgment, since I don't know > the facts. I'm skeptical of the initial/official reports, which seem > unduly hostile to Mary Frances Williams, who does have a PhD in Classics > and two books to her credit, Recollections can be notoriously > unreliable. The only evidence I'll trust is the video that was made of > the panel; so far, the SCS has not put it up on their YouTube channel. > The Peralta paper is appalling. Aside from its neologisms, > it has no classical content. With a few words changed, it could just > as well have been delivered at a conference of mathematicians or > rocket scientists. > Anyway, this episode interests me. All info welcome. > > John Lauritsen, Independent Scholar. >