Upcoming Event at Penn: Russia and the World

[Kevin M. F. Platt]

Dear Colleagues:

On April 24th the Penn Slavic Department, in collaboration with the  
International League for Human RIghts, will be hosting a gathering of  
leaders of international NGOs working in Russia and Russian NGOs at  
Penn. I am writing to invite you to attend, and to encourage  
interested students and graduate students to attend as well. This  
will be a rare opportunity to participate first-hand in discussions  
of great significance and high public visibility.

The purpose of the gathering is to discuss Russia's restrictive new  
NGO law and increasingly problematic record on human rights. As you  
know, these issues have been getting a good deal of press coverage in  
the past months and are becoming matters of important international  
concern, especially in light of the upcoming St. Petersburg G8  
meetings. We expect the deliberations of this gathering to contribute  
in important ways to international public opinion concerning Russia's  
position in the world community.

Please direct inquiries and (if possible) RSVP to me (off-list) at  
the address below,

Assoc. Prof. Kevin M. F. Platt, Slavic Dept.

PROGRAM:

Russia and the World: The St. Petersburg G-8 and Beyond
April 24, 2006

At the
University of Pennsylvania
The Crest Room, Arts Research and Culture House (the ARCH)
3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Roundtable: Russia and Human Rights

Oksana Chilysheva, Russian Chechen Friendship Society
Robert Arsenault, International League for Human Rights
Benjamin Nathans, History Department, University of Pennsylvania

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Roundtable: Racism and Xenophobia
Kirill Babichenko, Sakharov Fellow on Human Rights, Harvard University
Arkady Leybovsky, Sakharov Fellow on Human Rights, Harvard University
Rudra Sil, Politics Department, University of Pennsylvania
Serguei Oushakine, Slavic Department, Princeton University

3:00 p.m. -  4:30 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion: The New NGO Law and Its Consequences

Irina Yasina, Open Russia Foundation
Anastasia Aseyeva, Moscow Helsinki Group
Aaron Rhodes, International Helsinki Federation
William Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Contact to RSVP or for information: kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu
Made possible by the support of: The Office of the Provost, the  
School of Arts and Sciences, the Program in International Relations,  
the Politics Department and the History Department.


Associate Professor Kevin M. F. Platt
745 Williams Hall
255 S. 36th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic

Tel: 215-746-0173
Fax: 215-573-7794




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