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SUMMARY:Holocaust Denial: A Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Dange
 r? - Professor Deborah E Lipstadt\, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish Histo
 ry and Holocaust Studies (Emory University)
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CONTACT:Vickie Freer
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy resea
 rch project when Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt\, Dorot Professor of Modern
  Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University\, will speak abo
 ut ‘Holocaust Denial: A Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Danger?
 ’\n\nMONDAY\, 5th May at 5pm – SG1\, Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick
  Site)\n\nHolocaust denial\, the attempt to deny that the Third Reich enga
 ged in the annihilation of approximately six million Jews\, has been depic
 ted as a serious threat to historical truth. Others have dismissed it as t
 he equivalent of the theory that the earth is flat\, i.e. absurd\, illogic
 al\, and unworthy of serious consideration. In this presentation Professor
  Lipstadt will explore these two contradictory perspectives on Holocaust d
 enial.  In addition\, she will explore the difference between “hardcore
 ” or traditional Holocaust denial and the more recent phenomenon of “s
 oft core” denial.\n\nThe event will be followed by a wine reception.\n\n
 Deborah E. Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Ho
 locaust Studies at Emory University. In 1996\, David Irving sued Professor
  Lipstadt and her publisher\, Penguin Books\, for libel for calling him a 
 Holocaust denier and falsifier of history in her book “Denying the Holoc
 aust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory” (published in 1994). Irvi
 ng lost the case. Professor Lipstadt’s book about the trial\, “History
  on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving” (2006)\, is currently in p
 roduction as a film with Participant Pictures and the BBC. Her most recent
  book is “The Eichmann Trial” (2011).\n
LOCATION:CRASSH Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9D
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