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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS holds its "AIAA Defense 2002 Conference: Excellence."
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - National Security in the 21st Century
12:30 p.m. - Paul D. Wolfowitz
Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:30 p.m. - Macro-economic View of the Defense Industry
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-264-7500
WEB ADDRESS:aiaa.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled "Beyond the Magic Bullet: African Women & their Long and Complex Quest for Gender Justice," with Zenebeworke Tadesse, founder, Association of African Women for Research and Development and board member, Women's Learning Partnership.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:45 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE-BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER hold a program on "Regulating Air Pollutants from Power Plants: What is Sensible?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center
Randall Lutter, Joint Center
Anne E. Smith, Charles River Associates
Peter E. Tsirigotis, EPA
C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
David G. Hawkins, National Resources Defense Council; Jeffrey R. Holmstead, EPA
John Palmisano, Evolution Markets
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONVENTION AND TOURISM CORPORATION holds a news conference to announce initiatives to increase travel to Washington, DC.
WHO: The speakers are:
DC Mayor Anthony Williams
William Hanbury, DC Convention and Tourism Corporation
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-7046
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: the ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE holds a program on
Bushmeat" and the Origin of HIV/AIDS: A Case Study of Biodiversity, Population Pressures and Human Health."
AGENDA: It is believed that a sub-species of chimpanzee in west-central Africa may be the original source of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and that transmission of the virus, a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), to humans was the result of blood exposures from the handling of chimpanzees killed by hunters.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric Chivian, M.D., Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Stuart Pimm, Ph.D., Professor of Conservation Biology, Columbia University
The Concept of "Biodiversity Hotspots"
Robert Engelman, Vice President for Research, Population Action International
Population Pressures in "Hotspots"
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., C.B.E., Founder and Trustee, The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation
The Practice of "Bushmeat" in West African Forests
Beatrice H. Hahn, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
SIV-Infected Primates as Sources and as Models for Understanding HIV/AIDS
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 124 Senate Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-1400
WEB ADDRESS:eesi.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum discussing "School Choice: Is It Good? Is It Constitutional?"
WHO: The speakers are:
David Salisbury, Cato Institute
Clint Bolick, Institute for Justice
Tom Mooney, Ohio Federation of Teachers
Barry Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program entitled The US Campaign Against Terrorism: Insights from the Arab World with Dr. Ziad Asali, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Kennan Institute U.S. Alumni Series presents Political Pathologies of the Russian Duma: Electoral and Organizational Problems of the Legislature with William Clark, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University, and former short-term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM holds a lecture by American Planning Association executive director W. Paul Farmer on achieving smart growth through changes in the current planning system.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-272-2448
WEB ADDRESS:nbm.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Carol Goldman president The L' Enfant Trust.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: ENTERPRISE PRISON INSTITUTE holds a news conference to discuss a survey that reveals the satisfaction of businesses with state prison inmate workers -- as compared with domestic workers, when they can be found.
WHO: The speakers are:
Morgan O. Reynolds, chief economist, U.S. Department of Labor
Ron Bird, chief economist, Employment Policy Foundation
Thomas J. Petersik, CURE
Knut Rostad, president EPI
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: Rayburn Office Building, Room 2226, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 301-320-9180
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Latest Developments in the European Union" with Francois Bujon de l'Estang, ambassador of France to the United States.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Violin and Double-Bass Duo, Bridging the Gap who enjoy bringing people together through classical music merged with jazz. movie music, and funk.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: TRANSAFRICA presents Adolfo Biko, discussing and signing copies of Equatorial Guinea: From Spanish Colonialism to the Discovery of Oil: A Personal Account
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: TransAfrica Forum, 1744 R St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-2301
WEB ADDRESS:transafrica.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES National Academy of Engineering will present this year's Charles Stark Draper Prize and the new biennial Bernard M. Gordon Prize at a dinner and ceremony.
AGENDA: Awarded annually since 1989, the Draper Prize recognizes engineering achievement specifically directed to the advancement of society and its ability to sustain a certain quality of life and freedom. The recipient receives a $500,000 cash award, gold medallion, and hand-scribed certificate.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: East Hall of Washington's Union Station, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Arnost Lustig one of the most acclaimed Czech writers, that teaches creative writing and film studies at American University discussing and signing copies "Of The House Of Returned Echoes," which is the fictionalized memoir of his father who perished in Auschwitz.
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY School of Communication hosts An American Forum panel discussion titled, "Covering the West Wing: Drawing the Battle Lines for 2002."
WHO: The speakers are:
Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent, Newsweek
Jonathan Karl, correspondent, CNN
Martin Walker, chief international correspondent, United Press International
David Winston, president of The Winston Group
DATE: February 19, 2002
LOCATION: Kay Spiritual Life Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
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