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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Washington Independent Writers hold 2002 Washington Writers Conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
Track 1 focuses on fiction writing and includes critiques and an agents' roundtable titled "What's Selling in Fiction."
Track 2 is geared toward nonfiction writers. Panelists include representatives of the Washington Post and Preservation.
Track 3 features discussions on the impact of copyright in the digital age, script writing, and getting your play produced in Washington.
Track 4 includes discussions on setting up a writing business, getting work online, and conducting research.
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7:45 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY holds a symposium on examining the roles and responsibilities of the executive and legislative branches in the federal judicial selection process
WHO: The speakers are:
Eleanor D. Acheson, former Assistant Attorney General during the Clinton Administration
Victoria Bassetti, Judiciary Committee counsel to Senator Herb Kohl
Stephen B. Burbank, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania and co-chair of AJS's Judicial Independence Task Force
Walter Dellinger, former Assistant Attorney General during the Clinton Administration
Dick Durbin, United States Senator
C. Boyden Gray, counsel to former President Bush
James L. Huffman, Dean and Erskine Wood, Sr., Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School
Brett Kavanaugh, Associate White House Counsel
Connie Mack, former United States Senator
Howard Metzenbaum, former United States Senator
Jon O. Newman, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Michael E. O'Neill, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Alan Charles Raul, Associate Counsel to President Reagan
Elliot E. Slotnick, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: The Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Malia Reddick, 202-973-5846
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Brazilian Foreign Policy Under Fernando Henrique Cardoso."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Amaury de Souza, Senior Partner, Techne and MCM Consultores Associados
Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Valor Econômico
Ambassador Anthony Harrington, Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, President, Stonebridge International; Ambassador Crescencio Arcos, Member of the US Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board
Ambassador Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Former Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs
President Conselho Curador CEBRI
Ambassador Gelson Fonseca, Brazilian Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Ambassador Rubens Antonio Barbosa, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE U.S. holds a briefing on "Transatlantic Relations and the President's Trip to Europe and Russia."
WHO: The speakers are:
William Drozdiak, director German Marshall Fund
Phillip Gordon, Brookings Institution
Paul Sauners, Nixon Center
Gary Schmitt, New American Century
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: Old Ebbitt Grill, 675 15th Street NW, Washintgon, DC
CONTACT: 202-238-2258
WEB ADDRESS:gmfus.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: DEFENSE FORUM FOUNDATION holds its policy forum featuring Officer in North Korea's National Defense Service, Yoon Sung-Soo discussing How Kim Jong-il "Enslaves 23 million People: A look From Inside North Korea's Regime."
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: B-339 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-534-4313
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Yuqin Wang and Zhangli Xu, puppeteers, presenting the ancient art form of Chinese rod puppetry, combined with music, humor, and special effects.
DATE: May 17, 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 presents historian John Lukacs discussing and signing copies of At The End Of An Age which is an extended essay on historical and scientific knowledge. He has characterized his book as being "about thinking itself," and its reward lies in his intellectual pursuit of defining the disappearing Modern Age
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF AND THE MARSHALL LEGACY INSTITUTE holds a gala benefiting landmine-contaminated countries.
WHO: The speakers are:
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Chuck Hagel, R-NE
Patrick Leahy, D-VT
James V. Kimsey, Founder, AOL and Kimsey Foundation
Brenda, a Mine Detection Dog and K9 Hero.
Sam Donaldson as Master of Ceremonies
Judy Collins, Musician
performance by the World's Children's Choir.
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-799-2449
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER presents"Portraits in Jazz: A Gallery of Songs."
WHO: Starring vocalists:
Carl Anderson
Patti Austin
Janis Siegel
Steve Tyrell
Lillias White
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
DATE: May 17, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
