Fresh from her victory in the libel case brought by the writer, David Irving, in a London court, Deborah Lipstadt gave this year's Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectures in September: “For the Sake of Truth and Memory: David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt” and “New perspectives on Holocaust Denial.” Lipstadt, author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986) and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Emmett E. “Bud” Welch, critic of the death penalty, widely known father of a daughter killed along with 167 others in the 1995 Oklahoma City bomb blast, gave the second annual Joseph Cardinal Bernadin Lecture in October. His evening lecture, “From Rage to Reconciliation,” was preceded by an afternoon panel discussion with Donny Myers, Solicitor of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit; Jan Love, Assoc. Prof. of Government and International Studies; and Donald Zalenka, Asst. Deputy Attorney General of SC.