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EVENTS ON MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION holds its annual meeting.

AGENDA: Highlights:

7 a.m. - Trustee Leadership Breakfast "National Political Update"

8:30 a.m. - Federal Relations Forum featuring former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani

Gov. Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security,

Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-MO,

Tom Scully, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

12:45 p.m. - AHA Recognition Luncheon featuring former U.S. Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-WY).

DATE:

LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-483-3000

WEB ADDRESS: aha.org

TIME: All Day.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY School of International Service conference, "Pakistan: Islam and Civil Society at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century."

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:45 a.m. - Dr. Louis Goodman, dean, American University School of International Service

Dr. Mustapha Kamal Pasha, professor of international relations, American University.

9 a.m.- Interrogating Religion and Politics

"Islam and (Mis) Representation," Dr. Asma Barlas, Ithaca College;

"Postcolonial Anxieties and Designs of the State: Official Islam and

Its Discontents," Dr. Tayyab Mahmud, Cleveland State University;

"Religious Groups and Politics in Pakistan," Dr. Saeed Shafqot,

Quaid-e-Azam Distinguished Professor, Columbia University;

Chair: Dr. Mustapha Kamal Pasha, American University.

10:45 a.m.- Ideology, Cultural Politics and Development

"Ideology and Praxis of Islamic Economics: The Case of Pakistan,"

Dr. Syed Bashir Hussain, University of Wisconsin;

"Islamization, the University and Political Distemper in Pakistan,"

Dr. Manzur Ejaz, The News;

"Religion, Women and Empowerment," Dr. Anita Weiss, University of

Oregon

"Morphology of Cultural Politics in Pakistan," Dr. Agha Khalid Saeed,

University of California-Berkeley;

Dr. Agha Khalid Saeed, University of California-Berkeley.

1:15 p.m.- Keynote Address

"Islamic Society and Civil Society: A Direction for Pakistan,"

Dr. Riffat Hassan, University of Louisville.

2:30 p.m.- Pakistan and Islam: The Wider Setting

"Ethnicity and Islam in Regional and Global Perspective,"

Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair, American University;

"Religion, Nation, and the State: Pakistan in Comparative

Perspective," Dr. Raju G.C. Thomas, Marquette University;

"The Vortex of Identities: Kashmir, Islam and Nationalism,"

Dr. Aurangzeb Syed, Northern Michigan University;

"The Military and Islam: Regional Implication," Dr. Stephen P. Cohen,

senior fellow, Brookings Institution;

Dr. Louis W. Goodman, dean, American University School of International Service

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: FEMINIST MAJORITY holds Women's Equality Summit themed "Uniting Women & Fighting for Our Issues."

AGENDA: Highlight:

10 a.m. - International Women's Rights Forum

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: National Education Association, 1201 16th St. NW, Washington DC

CONTACT: 703-522-2214

WEB ADDRESS: feministmajority.org

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law and The Law Library of Congress announce the flagship event for the 2002 AU Law Founders' Celebration. A conference discussing New Policies and Realities in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks of 9-11.

AGENDA: Highlights:

10 a.m. - The War on Terrorism: Implications for the Laws of War

Urs Boegli, head, Regional Delegation for N. America, Int'l Committee of the Red Cross

John Cooke, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.), director of Judicial Education at the Federal Judicial Center, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law

Eugene R. Fidell, partner, Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank, LLP

Kenneth Roth, executive director, Human Rights Watch

Diane Orentlicher, professor, AU Washington College of Law

Robert Kogod Goldman, professor, AU Washington College of Law

1:30 p.m. - What Patriotism Means Today

Walter Berns, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, Making Patriots

Roger Wilkins, professor of history, George Mason University; author, Jefferson's Pillow: the Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

John W. Ripley, Colonel, USMC (Ret.)

Jamin Raskin, professor, AU Washington College of Law

3:45 p.m. - Foreign Legal Responses to Terrorism

Ruth Levush, senior legal specialist, Eastern Law Division

Edith Palmer, senior legal specialist, Western Law Division

Peter Roudik, senior legal specialist, Eastern Law Division

George Sfeir, senior legal specialist, Eastern Law Division

Kersi B. Shroff, chief, Western Law Division, Directorate of Legal Research, Law Library of Congress (Moderator)

5 p.m. -- Tour of the Thomas Jefferson Building/Library of Congress

6 p.m. -- Reception in the Great Hall

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-885-5950

WEB ADDRESS:au.edu

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: THE FINANCIAL TIMES presents the Scottish-American Business Forum featuring a lecture by First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell on the opportunities for inward investment in Scotland.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: Pepco Conference Center, Second Floor, 701 9th St. NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 703-409-2272.

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: JAPAN INFORMATION ACCESS PROJECT & JAPAN-US FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION hold a symposium on Fixing Japan's Economy.

WHO: The speakers are:

Keynote Luncheon Speaker: Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard, Council of Economic Advisers, The White House

Ms. Gillian Tett, The Financial Times

Professor Magnus Blomström, President of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics-Lessons for Japan from Sweden's Financial and Economic Crisis

Professor Anil Kashyap, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago-Japan's Financial Crisis: Priorities for Policymakers

Professor Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii and East-West Center-Institutional Change in Japan: Why it Happens, Why it Doesn't

Professor Hiroshi Ono, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics-The Rough Road to Labor Market Reform

Jay Tate, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Berkeley-Japan's Industry Associations: Reconsidering Business Relations

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-822-6040

WEB ADDRESS:jiaponline.org

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

EVENT: INTERNATIONAL ANSWER holds a news conference to discuss "Anti-War activists condemning the Bush/Sharon war against the Palestinian people.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-332-5757.

WEB ADDRESS: internationalanswer.org

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Market Reform in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Achievements, Challenges, and Dangers with Mladjan Dinkic, Governor, National Bank of Yugoslavia.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program on The Terrorism Problem in Libyan-American Relations: Past and Future featuring Ronald Bruce St John, author of the newly published book, Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Conflict, which explores American-Libyan relations during the Qaddafi years in the context of international terrorism.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-785-1141

WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Ten Years of Civil Society Development in Siberia 1992-2002: Lessons Learned by an American Activist with Sarah Lindemann, Open Society Fellow, Novosibirsk.

DATE: April 8, 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: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Burma: The Current Situation and a Refugee's Perspective."

WHO: The speakers are:

Rocky Htoe Thein, Burmese refugee

John Knaus, program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Bridging the Digital Divide in Developing Countries" with Charles Santangelo, an independent international trade consultant and former Eastern Europe director of the USAID Global Technology Network.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 1:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a director's forum entitled "My Ten Years As UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Lessons for the Future," with Sadako Ogata, current Scholar-in-Residence, The Ford Foundation.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a director's forum entitled "Towards a New Consensus: Directions and Implications of the German Political Debate," with Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-287-3400

WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled ""Poland's Golden Decade: Solidarity in the 1980s" with Janusz Onyszkiewicz, chief spokesman for Solidarity in the 1980s and former Polish minister of National Defense.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Why Human Rights Matter: A Road Map to Democracy in Asia" with Doan Viet Hoat, a prominent Vietnamese dissident and journalist.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 5:30 p.m.

EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Bradley Lecture features John O'Sullivan, United Press International discussing "Nationalism and its Rivals."

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-862-5933

WEB ADDRESS: aei.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Singers/songwriters Kim Buchanan, Mary Sue Twohy, and Rachel Cross performing a mixture of pop, jazz, and folk music.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-416-8000

WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY First Annual Nikolay Novoselov Memorial Forum discussing the changing U.S.-Russia relations after the terrorist attacks of September 11.

WHO: The speakers are:

GW Shapiro Professor Leon Fuerth of the Elliott School of International Affairs

Georgetown Professor Allen Weinstein, president of The Center for Democracy

Law Professor William V. Smirnov, vice chairman for the Commission on Human Rights of the President of Russia Federation

Eugene Lawson, president of the U.S.-Russia Business Council.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-994-3087

WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Bernhard Schlink discussing and signing copies of his short stories, Flights Of Love.

DATE: April 8, 2002

LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-364-1919

WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com