Lewis & Clark College welcomes Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt for a 1-hour free ticketed talk and Q&A.

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. She served as the United States special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism from 2022 to 2025. Ambassador Lipstadt is currently the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ambassador Lipstadt is probably best known for having been sued for libel by David Irving, one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. The case, which lasted for six years and was heard in court in a twelve-week trial, resulted in Irving being declared by the court to be “a right wing polemicist,” who engages in antisemitism, racism, and misogyny. That trial was depicted in the 2016 film Denial, which was based on her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

Join us for a curated journey through a distinguished career, as Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt pulls back the curtain on her work before, during, and after serving as an Ambassador in the Biden Presidential Administration.

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