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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES holds its legislative conference themed Homeland SecurityFirst Responders: Counties Secure America
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - Pre-Conference Seminar:
(Separate Registration Fee Required)
Workshop #1 - "What's That You Said?" Crafting and Developing Your Counties Message
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-42-4293.
WEB ADDRESS:naco.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a workshop on "Control Without Control: From Complexity to the Management of Innovation featuring science author M. Mitchell Waldrop
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law holds a Legitimating Fictions: A Symposium on Law and Literature.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:15 a.m. -- Praxis
David Caudill, "Scientific Narratives in Law: Contours of a Law, Literature and Science Movement"
Adam Thurschwell, "Law and Literature and the Right to Death"
10:15 a.m. -- Law And Popular Culture
Blake Morant, "Lawyers and Television: Lights, Cameras, Action and the Theory of Presentment"
Mark Niles, "The Relationship Between Law and Justice in American Popular Culture"
William MacNeil, "You Slay Me! Buffy as Jurisprude of Desire"
1:30 p.m. -- Law And Gender
Peter Goodrich, "Amici Curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Fictions in Renaissance England"
Penelope Pether, "Reading Measure for Measure: Toward an Equitable Foundational Legal Pedagogy"
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 9:30 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a program on "The Future of Campaign Finance Reform: Constitutional Challenges, Political Realities."
Thomas E. Mann, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution; Director, Brookings Campaign Finance Website
Randolph Moss, Partner, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Director, Campaign Finance Project (funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts)
Daniel R. Ortiz, John Allan Love Professor of Law and Joseph C. Carter, Jr. Research
Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Trevor Potter, Partner, Caplin & Drysdale; General Counsel, Campaign and Media Legal Center; Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL WOMEN'S CAUCUS holds a briefing with women's rights activist, Filomena Barros dos Reis is currently the Advocacy Officer for the NGO Forum, the umbrella organization for NGOs in East Timor. She was a delegate to the United Nations "Beijing Plus Five" international conference on women's issues in June 2001 and has represented the East Timorese Women's Network at other international conferences,
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 1539 Longworth Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-544-6911
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: USA VOTENET.COM holds a news conference to announce a report entitled "A Blueprint for Effective Voter Outreach."
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-331-0175
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: MILITARY TOXICS PROJECT holds a news conference to discuss military environmental compliance.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol. Washington, DC
CONTACT: 207-783-5091
WEB ADDRESS: miltocproj.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: PROGRESS & FREEDOM FOUNDATION hosted panel will examine the current market environment for multi-channel video services and the public policy implications of dynamic changes on the horizon.
WHO: The speakers are:
Panelists include David Gardy, Chairman and CEO, TVWorldwide.com, Inc.
Link Hoewing, Assistant Vice President, Verizon Communications
Chirstopher A. McLean, Vice President, National Strategies, Inc.
Steven F. Vest, Vice President, Congressional Relations, NCTA
Randolph J. May, PFF Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies FF President Jeffrey A. Eisenach
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-289-8928
WEB ADDRESS: pff.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program discussing Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the "Oasis of Peace," which is the only community in the Middle East where Jews, Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Muslims live, work and raise their children together as equals. Ahmad Hijazi and Nava Sonnenschein are both directors of the village's School for Peace.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The BMW Center for German and European Studies holds a workshop on "Historiography And National Identity In Spain."
WHO: The speakers are:
Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain as Patria: the Imagined Community of the Enlightenment
Carolyn P. Boyd, University of California at Irvine
The Second Battle of Covadonga: The Politics of Commemoration in Twentieth Century Spain
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 1:15 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYconcert series presents Palestinian pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar and Israeli pianist Shai Wosner. Internationally-acclaimed, award-winning pianists Saleem Abboud Ashkar and Shai Wosner will collaborate on several pieces in a classic music presentation that may include selections from Mozart, Satie and Brahms.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: THE LARRY KING CARDIAC FOUNDATION holds the annual black tie, star-studded "Evening with Larry King and Friends."
AGENDA: This year the foundation will bestow the Larry King Heart Award to Arthur F. Ryan, chairman and CEO of The Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Gabriella E. Morris, president of The Prudential Foundation.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton hotel at 22nd and M Streets, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703/522-0703
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Fisk Jubilee Singers, inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame in 2000.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE Thane Rosenbaum discusses and signs copies of the Golems Of Gotham in which Oliver Levin, gothic mystery writer, is blocked. His teenage daughter, Ariel, amateur kabbalist and klezmer violinist, tries to help by summoning the spirits of his dead parents.
DATE: March 1, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
