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The itinerary in Washington was organized by . Rubens Medina, the Law Librarian of Congress; Bryan Bachner; Leon Scioscia,
Special Assistant to the Law Librarian; Alisa Carrel, of the Law Library of Congress; and Professors Stephen Wermiel and
Daniel Marcus of the Washington College of Law at American University.
In February 2007, the international legal scholars of the Law Library of Congress participated in the EPIIC symposium,
“Global Crises: Governance and Intervention.” Professor Michael Glennon of the Fletcher School helped prepare the
student for the simulations. Support for the National Security and Civil Liberties Program was provided by the Office of
the Dean of Undergraduate Education and the Merrin Family Fund.
Tufts Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights
This year, the IGL initiated a Tufts Chapters of Physicians for Human Rights
that extended beyond the medical school to include undergraduates. The
first effort of this new chapter was to hold a pre-conference event before the
annual Physicians for Human Rights Student Conference in November. The
day featured two panels and two photography presentations (coordinated
by EXPOSURE). The first panel looked at “Avian Flu and Risk Analysis” and
featured David Dapice, Professor of Economics at Tufts University; David
Gute, Professor of Civil Engineering at Tufts University; Bela Matyas, Director
of the Massachusetts State Epidemiology Program; and Elena Naumova,
Director of the “Tufts Initiative for Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious
Diseases” at the Tufts School of Medicine. The second panel focused on
“Past Pandemics and Lessons Learned: SARS and HIV/AIDS”, and featured
Panther Alier, a Sudanese refugee and Board Member of the Sudanese Education Fund; Edith Balbach, Director of the
Community Health Program at Tufts; Anne De Groot, Director of the TB/HIV Lab, Brown University; George Saperstein,
Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. The two photography presentations were:
“Perilous Light: Photography and the Ethics of Representing Suffering from a Distance” by Fuyuki Kurasawa, associate
professor of sociology at York University in Toronto; and a compilation of the work on global health of the photographers
from the VII photo agency: Alexandra Boulat (Paris), Ron Haviv (Darfur), Gary Knight (India), John Stanmeyer (Indonesia),
and James Nachtwey (Agent Orange).
Next Steps for Students
Following graduation or during their summer break, the students that the IGL works with pursue a broad range of interesting
opportunities, a number of which are arranged or inspired by the Institute.
A sample of plans for graduating seniors:
• Working for Projects for Peace in Kiribati
• Fulbright Scholarship to Argentina
• Working on Governor Bill Richardson’s Presidential Campaign
• Dutko Fellowship at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC
• Program Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York
• Research Associate at the Stockholm Environmental Institute
• Pursuing an M.A. in French Language and Civilization through New York University in Paris
• Working at the Mexican Institute for Family and Population Research (IMIFAP) in Mexico City
• Humanity in Action Fellowship in the Netherlands, Summer 2007
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