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SAPERE AU D E Freedom, Legal Consciousness, Ethics 25 years of civic education SAPERE AUDE Freedom, Legal Consciousness, Ethics Segovia, June 13–17, 2018 Association of Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe In memory of Arseny Roginsky El Rancho de la Aldegüela, Torrecaballeros (Segovia) in collaboration with Valsaín Foundation (Fundación Valsaín para la promoción y defensa de los valores democráticos) Wednesday 13 June DEMOCRACY, R U LE OF LAW, AND ETHICS 09.45–10.30 Opening session 15.30–17.00 Session: Lena Nemirovskaya Democracy, Rule of Law and Values in the Founder, Moscow School of Civic Education Digital Society Álvaro Gil-Robles Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo Commissioner for Human Rights of Council of Europe (1999–2006), President of the Valsaín Foundation 17.00–17.30 Coffee break Vladimir Lukin Human Rights Commissioner of Russia (2004–2014), 17.30–19.00 Session: president of the Russian Paralympic Committee Authoritarian Regime and Russian Society Javier López-Escobar Tatiana Vorozheikina Regional Delegate, Regional Community of Castilla y León 19.00–19.30 Coffee break 10.30–12.00 Session: Can We Get Democracy Without Values? Álvaro Gil-Robles 19.30–21.30 Round table: The Rule of Law. What Rule? What Law? 12.00–12.30 Coffee break Alexander Shmelev 12.30–14.00 Session: 21.30 Dinner Securing Identity – Estonia’s Return to Europe Riina Kaljurand 14.00–15.30 Lunch 4 / 5 Thursday 14 June Friday 15 June POLITICS, ECONOMY, S OCIETY, AND ETHICS THE RULE OF LAW, AND ETHICS 10.00–11.30 Session: 9.30–11.30 Session: The Language of Propaganda Aristotle and Plato: the Idea of a State Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya Andrey Zakharov Vasily Zharkov 11.30–12.00 Coffee break 11.30–12.00 Coffee break 12.00–13.30 Session: 30 Years on the Road Across the Empire: a Selfie 12.00–13.30 Session: Pilar Bonet Legal Tools as Mechanism for Repairing Broken Societies - The Rule of Law and 13.30–15.00 Lunch International Obligations Arild Humlen 15.00–16.30 Session: Global Institutions: Challenges, Crises and 13.30–15.00 Lunch Ways Out Alexandre Guessel 15.00–16.30 Session: Former Socialist Countries Lagging Behind 16.30–17.00 Coffee break in Democracy Elena Lukianova 17.00–18.30 Session: 30 Years on the Road to Economic Success 16.30–17.00 Coffee break and Back Kirill Rogov 17.00–19.00 Round table: Civilisation and Culture 18.30–19.00 Coffee break Alexander Shmelev 19.00–20.30 Discussion 19.00 Dinner 20.30 Dinner 6 / 7 Saturday 16 June 18.00–20.00 Screening: The Right to Remember FREEDOM, MEMORY, AND ETHICS Elena Zhemkova Vladimir Lukin Natalia Mirza You can only understand freedom from the experience of Alexander Daniel “unfreedom ARSENY ROGINSKY ” 20.00 Dinner 9.00–10.30 Session: “Volya”: a Different Kind of Liberty Sunday 17 June Maxim Trudolyubov 25 YEARS OF CIVIC EDUCATION: WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, 10.30–11.00 Coffee break BUT WE ARE ALL CITIZENS 11.00–12.30 Session: The Future of the Past 9.00–10.30 Session: Dmitry Gorin Russia and the West. Reflections on recent events 12.30–14.00 Lunch Lord Robert Skidelsky 14.00–15.30 Session: 10.30–11.00 Coffee break The Politics of Memory Alvydas Nikžentaitis 11.00–12.30 Session: Split Between Eastern and Western Christianity 15.30–16.00 Coffee break – and Its Impact on Russian Thought Edward Skidelsky 16.00–17.30 Session: Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism as Actual 12.30–13.00 Closing remarks Concepts of Present Issues: Yury Senokosov Rethorics and Narratives Alexander Daniel 13.00–14.30 Lunch 17.30–18.00 Coffee break 15.00–18.00 Visit to San Lorenzo de El Escorial 8 / 9 Experts Anastasia Associate Professor, Faculty of Elena Lukianova Professor, Department of Constitutional Bonch-Osmolovskaya Humanities School of Linguistics (Russia) and Municipal Law, Faculty of Law, (Russia) Programme; Academic Supervisor, National Research University of the National Research University Higher Higher School of Economics; Lawyer School of Economics Vladimir Lukin Human Rights Commissioner of Russia Pilar Bonet Chief Correspondent in Moscow, El País (Russia) (2004–2014); President, Russian (Spain) Paralympic Committee Alexander Daniel Historian, Board Member, Memorial Natalia Mirza Head of Secretariat, Russian Paralympic (Russia) human rights and humanitarian society (Russia) Committee Tomás De La Professor, University Carlos III, Madrid Lena Nemirovskaya, OBE Founder, Moscow School of Civic Education Quadra-Salcedo (Russia) (Spain) Alvydas Nikžentaitis Historian Álvaro Gil-Robles President Valsaín Foundation; (Lithuania) y Gil-Delgado Commissioner for Human Rights, Kirill Rogov Political Scientist; Academic Secretary, (Spain) Council of Europe (1999–2006) (Russia) Member of the Editorial Committee, Alexandre Guessel Director of Political Advice, Te New Model of Economic Growth (Council of Europe) Council of Europe Group; Columnist at Vedomisti daily business newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Gorin Professor, Plekhanov Russian University RBC, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Te (Russia) of Economics Financial Times Arild Humlen Lawyer (with admission to the Supreme Yury Senokosov (Norway) Founder, Moscow School of Civic Education Court); Humlen Advokater AS (Humlen (Russia) Lawyers Ltd Co) Alexander Shmelev Riina Kaljurand Political Analyst Director, Lennart Meri Conference (Russia) (Estonia) Edward Skidelsky Javier López-Escobar Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter; Regional Delegate, Regional (United Kingdom) (Spain) Author Community of Castilla y León 10 / 11 Lord Robert Skidelsky Member of the House of Lords, UK (United Kingdom) Parliament, Author Participants Maxim Trudolyubov Columnist, Vedomosti daily, Te New (Russia) York Times, Republic; Author and ARMENIA Contributor, Te Russia File, Kennan Institute, Inliberty Armen Ghazaryan Research Fellow, Caucasus Institute Tatiana Vorozheikina Political Analyst (Russia) POLAND Andrey Zakharov Editor, Neprikosnovennyi Zapas: Debates Lola Buryeva (Russia) on Politics and Culture magazine Correspondent, News Department, TV Belsat Maria Harmast Vasily Zharkov Programme Director, Head of the Chairman, For Free Russia association (Russia) International Politics Master’s Agnieszka Kaniewska Programme, Te Moscow School of Social PR Specialist, Coordinator, Siberian and Economic Studies Bialystok- Resurrection project Elena Zhemkova Executive Director, Memorial human (Russia) rights and humanitarian society RUSSIA Yegor Alasheev Staff Member, Headquarters of Alexei (Samara Oblast) Navalniy, Samara Maria Anikina Correspondent, Belsat TV; Coordinator, (Novosibirsk Oblast) Strange People community Alexey Barayev Public Council Member, Department of (Yaroslavl Oblast) Tourism, Yaroslavl Region Sergey Belinin Head of Debt Collection, Legal Entities (St Petersburg) Department, Finance Capital Andrei Berezin Chairman, Youth Committee, (St Petersburg) Novosibirsk Chemical Chemical Concentrates plant Roman Bugakov Coordinator, Headquarters of Alexei (Ryazan Oblast) Navalniy, Ryazan 12 / 13 Lyudmila Bulygina Volunteer, Lisa Alert public search squad Ruslan Kahrimanov Project Manager, Civil Society (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (Republic of Dagestan) Development Assembly regional public organisation, Dagestan Sergey Chekandin Teacher of History and Social Studies, (Krasnodar Krai) All-Russian Children’s Centre, Orlyonok Yuri Kanygin Coordinator, Regional Office of the (Pskov Oblast) Open Russia movement, Pskov Maxim Dementiev Civic Activist, Regional Office of Te (Samara Oblast) Progress Party political party, Samara Tatyana Karchenkova Freelance Journalist (Omsk Oblast) Anna Dulevskaya Coordinator, Memorial movement: (Oryol Oblast) Rasul Kataganov Te Last Address, Oryol Leader, Public Nogai national organisation (Karachay-Cherkess Republic) Rinat Galeev Deputy Chairman, Regional Office of (Rostov Oblast) Roman Kazakov the Civil Initiative political party Chairman, Coordination Council, people’s (Krasnoyarsk Krai) control in housing and communal Alisa Galyenko Deputy, Council of Deputies, services interregional public movement (Moscow) Khoroshevsky District Polina Kostyleva Dmitry Garmatyuk Civic Activist, Election Observer Director, UniCon-Kuban company (St Petersburg) (Krasnodar Oblast) Andrey Lapehin Nikita Gerasimov Lawyer, AGORA international human Private Practice Lawyer (Chelyabinsk Oblast) (Moscow Oblast) rights group Olga Lapehina Lawyer, AGORA international human Alexander Gorbachev Head, Land, Labor and Environmental (Chelyabinsk Oblast) rights group (Bryansk Oblast) Law Department, Bryansk State University Elena Lashmanova Natalia Gorbacheva Civic Activist, Animal Rights Advocate Individual Entrepreneur (Republic of Mordovia) (Moscow Oblast) Ekaterina Leonova Head of Academic Programmes, Dmitry Gorokhov Coordinator, Observers of St Petersburg (Rostov Oblast) International School of Business, (St Petersburg) public organisation, Krasnogvardeysky Southern Federal University district Olga Lisinova Maxim Gradoboev Photo Correspondent, Rabochiy Put’ Homeowners’ Representative (Smolensk Oblast) (Kirov Oblast) regional socio-political newspaper, Smolensk Grigory Gribenko Chairman, Regional Office, Yabloko Martha Lubas Chairman, Public Environmental (Irkutsk Oblast) political party, Irkutsk (Tyumen Oblast) Council, Tobolsk Eugene Ivanov Research Fellow, Teacher, Higher School Ruslan Magomedov (Kursk Oblast) Coordinator and Co-Founder, Observers of Economics Research University (Republic of Dagestan) of Dagestan project Olga Juravel Head of Journalism Training Department, (Novosibirsk Oblast) Novosibirsk State University 14 / 15 Kamran Manafly Author, Laboratory of Citizenship project Roman Rusanov Deputy Assistant, City Duma, (Krasnodar Krai) (Amur
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