Skeptics in the Pub with Mary Lefkowitz: “Academic Fictions and Fantasies”
Posted on : 13-11-2011 | By : John | In : Event, Skeptics in the Pub
Tags: history, political correctness, post-modernism, Skeptics in the Pub
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Dr. Mary Lefkowitz is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita at Wellesley College. She is the author of Not Out of Africa, Black Athena Revisited*, and History Lesson. She has also written several books about ancient Greece, including Women in Greek Myth and Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths and many others.
She will be talking about the “Black Athena Controversy”, the notion that Greek culture was stolen or borrowed from Egypt, and her attempts to talk about evidence-based history in the era of post-modernism and political correctness.
If this subject is new to you, as it is to me, having skillfully avoided academia in the 1980s and 90s, I recommend doing some background reading, or at least a bit of googling, in advance. (One of the Amazon reviews of one of her books compared arguing with Afro-centrists to arguing with anti-vaxxers, a conflict I’m more familiar with.)
We’re back to our usual place and time this month, upstairs at Tommy Doyle’s on Monday, November 28 at 7 PM.
Feel free to sign up on our Facebook event page.
[*] which she edited with Guy Rogers, though for some reason the Amazon page doesn’t mention him.