[Daviscenter-list] Register for “Human Rights in the USSR and Putin’s Russia: A Memorial Symposium for Elena Bonner” (April 6)

On Saturday, April 6, from 1-5:30pm, please join us for a memorial symposium for human rights activist Elena Bonner, to be held on the campus of Harvard University. Registration and more details can be found on the event’s webpage: elenabonnersymposium.eventbrite.com. [Title: Human Rights in the USSR and Putin's Russia: A Memorial Symposium for Elena Bonner - Description: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 1-5:30 pm Lessin Lecture Hall, Maxwell Dworkin Harvard University 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Focusing on human rights issues in both the Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia, this symposium will feature two panels on the role and experiences of Soviet human rights activists, as well as the modern-day legacy of Elena Bonner (1923–2011) and her husband, the renowned dissident and physicist Andrei Sakharov. The event will conclude with a commemorative presentation by Bonner’s daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. Free and open to the public. Please register at elenabonnersymposium.eventbrite.com] Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>