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Emory's Lipstadt, Attorney Rampton Highlight Nov. 1-2 Conference On Libel Law, Jewish Identity Richard Rampton, the British barrister who successfully defended Emory University's Deborah Lipstadt during her libel trial in England on her book, "Denying the Holocaust," will be the keynote speaker for a two-day public conference titled, "Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Holocaust Denial, Historical Truth and Jewish Identity," Nov. 1-2 at Emory University School of Law. Rampton's keynote speech on "Defending the Truth of the Holocaust:
Irving v. Lipstadt" will open the conference at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 1 in the law school's Tull Auditorium. Thursday's events begin at 9 a.m. with a panel discussion at the law
school on "Free Speech and the Holocaust Experience." Panelists
include: Rampton, who will address "Libel Law in England";
David Bederman, associate professor of law at Emory, on "Hate Speech
and International Law"; and Anita Bernstein, Sam Nunn Professor
of Law at Emory, on "What Can American Defamation Law Vindicate?"
A panel at 2 p.m. Thursday on "Jewish Identity, the Holocaust
and Holocaust Denial" will be held in the Michael C. Carlos Museum
reception hall on campus. Panelists include: Joel Levy of the Lauder
Foundation, on "German Perspectives Today on the Holocaust";
and Shalom Goldman, assistant professor of Middle Eastern studies at
Emory, on "Poetry, Politics and the Shadow of the Holocaust in
Israeli Culture." Lipstadt will give the closing address of the conference, the 2000
Tenenbaum Lecture in Judaic Studies, at 4 p.m., also at the Carlos Museum
reception hall. Her topic will be "The Holocaust and American Jewish
Identity: Surviving the Survivors." All conference sessions are free and open to the public with no reservations
needed. For daytime events, use the Visitor Parking Deck behind the
Emory Clinic at 1365 Clifton Rd. For evening events, use either the
Fishburne or Lowergate South decks and follow the signs. For information
call 404-727-0699, or 404-727-6504. To see a map of campus on-line,
go to www.emory.edu/MAP. The conference is co-sponsored by Emory, the Tenenbaum Family Lecture
Series and the Hightower Fund, along with the Jewish Federation of Greater
Atlanta and the Weinberg Holocaust Education Center of the William Breman
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