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Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights The Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights features scholars working in human rights field, broadly defined, and human rights activists from the former Soviet Union. Sponsored by the Sakharov Program on Human Rights Unless noted otherwise, meets monthly on Mondays, View the Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights Calendar Below are the partial listings for spring 2007 sememster. Monday, February 26 BIOS (in alphabetical order): Anton Burkov is a law attorney in Russia, who holds a law degree from the Urals State Law Academy, an advanced a law degree from the Tiumen’ State University (kandidat iuridicheskikh nauk), and an LL.M. from the University of Essex, where he was a Chevening Scholar. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in law at the University of Cambridge as the TNK-BP Kapitza Scholar. In 2001-2002, he completed the PILI/COLPI Public Interest Law Fellows Programme at Columbia University School of Law in New York. Since 1998, he has been practicing and teaching human rights law. During his nine years of practice as a human rights lawyer with the Urals Centre of Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection of the NGO Sutyajnik (Solicitor), Anton Burkov litigated cases in district and regional courts, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. He also took part in the case of Rakevich v. Russia. Presently, he serves as a legal representative in a number of cases before the European Court of Human Rights. Anton Burkov was on the faculty of the Urals State Law Academy and the Urals Institute of Economy, Management and Law, took part in many workshops as a trainer, presented papers at conferences, and published five books and more then 20 papers in major Russian law journals and in English-language law journals. In addition to his theoretical contributions to these fields, he developed the Alcator (experimental) Program at MIT, which is one of the three main experimental efforts on magnetically confined plasmas in the U.S. He also started the Frascati Torus Program, presently the major experimental undertaking on plasma physics in Italy. He developed and leads the Ignitor Program in the U.S. and Europe which has been the first experiment proposed and designed to reach ignition by nuclear fusion reactions in the laboratory. He was a member of the Voyager II science team for encounters with Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989). Professor Coppi has been a member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences since 1976. He is a recipient of the Maxwell Prize and the Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, the Prize for Science of the Italian Government and the International Italgas Prize for Science and Technology, the Theresian Medal by the University of Pavia (together with Sir Karl Popper), the Dante Alighieri Prize in the U.S., the Distinguished Achievement Award for Fusion Research by the U.S. F.P.A, and the Gold Medal of the Polytechnic of Milan. He has been knighted Great Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President of Italy. Professor Coppi was a founder of the Plasma Astrophysics Subdivision of the American Physical Society. He directed three of the International Conferences on Plasma Astrophysics (including the Enrico Fermi School at Varenna) and of the original Varenna International Courses on Plasmas Close to Thermonuclear Conditions. He served on, and was chairman of, the American Physical Society Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists. Since his days at Princeton University, Professor Coppi has annually presented invited papers and lectures at major international conferences, universities and research centers on plasma physics, space physics, astrophysics, fusion research, and technology for advanced experimental machines. Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, Jr. is a Russian journalist, historian and opposition politician. He is currently the Washington bureau chief and political correspondent of RTVI, an international Russian-language television network. He was born in Moscow and graduated with honors degree in history from Cambridge University, England. >From 1997 to 2003 he was the London correspondent for Novye Izvestia and later Kommersant daily newspapers. From 2000 to 2003 he was also an advisor to Boris Nemtsov, leader of the democratic opposition in the Russian Parliament (Duma). Vladimir Kara-Murza was a democratic opposition candidate for the Russian Parliament in the 2003 elections; he came second in Moscow’s Chertanovsky district with 23,800 votes. In 2004, along with Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Bukovsky, Boris Nemtsov and other prominent democrats, Vladimir Kara-Murza co-founded the 2008 Committee, an umbrella group of the Russian opposition. In 2005 he authored They Chose Freedom, a four-part television documentary on the history of political dissent in the Soviet Union produced for RTVI network. They Chose Freedom tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the late 1950s until the 1990s. Public readings of banned poetry on Mayakovsky Square, the development of samizdat, the 1965 and 1968 opposition demonstrations in Moscow, and the harsh repressions unleashed against dissidents by Communist authorities (forced psychiatric treatment, prison camps and deportations) are all reflected in the film. Its third episode focuses on events leading to the collapse of Soviet dictatorship and the democratic revolution of August 1991, and the fourth episode addresses the future of Russia. They Chose Freedom is narrated primarily through the interviews of prominent Russian dissidents: Elena Bonner, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Dremlyuga, Viktor Fainberg, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Naum Korzhavin, Sergei Kovalev, Eduard Kuznetsov, Pavel Litvinov, Yuri Orlov, Alexander Podrabinek, Anatoly Sharansky and Alexander Yessenin-Volpin. They Chose Freedom was first broadcast on RTVI in October 2005, and in December 2005 its Russian premiere took place at the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow. Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a Senior Fellow and director of The Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, and the author of the book Liberty for Latin America, which recently obtained the Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award for its contribution to the cause of freedom in 2005. He was recently appointed Young Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Tatiana Vorozheykina received her education at Moscow State University, graduating with a Ph.D in History and Latin American Studies in 1976. From 1977 to 1999 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and from 1996 to the present, a lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, where she has also occupied the positions of Deputy Dean, and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. At the Department of Political Science she teaches several master-level courses in comparative politics and state and society in Russia and Latin America. She has also been a visiting professor and lecturer in the US (The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington, Georgetown University, Princeton University, Vassar College), Argentina (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Relations of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, Institute of Economic and Social History Investigations at University of Buenos Aires, National University of Rosario, Torcuato di Tella University, San Andres University), Brazil (Institute of International Relations of Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Chile (Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of University of Chile), and, sponsored by World Society Foundation, she was the Peter Heinz Visiting Professor at Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Richard Wilson has been at Harvard University since 1955 where he is now Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics. In his 50-year career he has worked on a variety of projects in nuclear and particle physics. Starting with nucleon scattering, he has worked on scattering of leptons, both electrons and muons, by nucleons. Then on electron- positron colliding beams at Harvard from 1970-73, and then at Cornell University until 2001. He works on experiment with scattering of polarized electrons by protons at the CEBAF (JLAB) in Virginia, to search for strange quark form factors, and on "little a" in neutron decay at Indiana and NIST in Maryland. Professor Wilson is an affiliate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of the Program on Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or coauthor of 867 published articles and papers. When opportunity arises he engages in various human rights activities; he is till involved in experiments on parity violation in electron proton scattering at CEBAF and on an asymmetry in neutron decay. He is now President of the ARSENIC FOUNDATION dedicated to helping to avoid arsenic poisoning through water supplies in SE Asia.
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