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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR APRIL 8-11, 2003
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003
TIME: ALL DAY
EVENT: FOSE EXPO AND GCN MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION. FOSE hosts over 400 exhibitors showcasing the newest and most exciting integrated IT products and services.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - Stephen J. Rohleder, Group Chief Executive, Government Operating Group Accenture discussing Global e-Government Leadership: Charting the Path to Progress
1 p.m. - Steve Cooper, CIO and Senior Director for Information Integration
Department of Homeland Security with Homeland Security: From Day 1 to Year 1 .... Let's Roll
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Convention Center, 900 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-237-0300
WEB ADDRESS: fose.com
TIME: ALL DAY
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Center for the Global South holds a program on "The State of Human Development in the Global South: A Comparison of the Latin American and Arab Regions."
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-1612
WEB ADDRESS: american.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds its "Iraq: What Lies Ahead -- Black Coffee Briefings on the War in Iraq."
AGENDA: Highlight:
8:30 a.m. - Military Operations Analysis:
Thomas Donnelly, AEI resident defense and national security fellow
Michael Vickers, military analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
9 a.m. - Briefing:
Karlyn Bowman, AEI resident fellow, on public opinion of the war
Reuel Marc Gerecht, AEI resident fellow, on the future of Iraq
Kanan Makiya, Iraqi National Congress and Harvard University, on the role of the opposition in rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq
Danielle Pletka, AEI, moderator
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Angola's First Year of Peace: An Assessment.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary and Special Advisor for African Affairs to the UN
Walter Kansteiner III, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa
Ambassador Paul Hare, Executive Director, U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce
Witney Schneidman, President, Schneidman and Associates
John Prendergast, Co-Director, Africa Program, International Crisis Group
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a Book Launch - James MacGregor Burns, Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness with author James MacGregor Burns, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus, Williams College, and commentator Georgia Sorenson, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.
DATE: April 8, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 2003
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: PROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE AND THE NATIONAL CENTER ON EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY hold a policy forum on "The No Child Left Behind Act."
WHO: The Panelists include:
Rep. George Miller
U.S. Under Secretary of Education Eugene Hickok
former presidential advisor Sandy Kress
J.B. Buxton, senior education advisor to North Carolina Gov. Michael Easley
James Peyser, chair of the Massachusetts State Board of Education; and Judith Rizzo, former deputy chancellor of the New York City public schools.
DATE: April 9, 2003
LOCATION: The Cafritz Center is located at 800 21st St NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-783-3668.
WEB ADDRESS: ncee.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a program releasing a Report Card on State Liability Systems Survey of Corporate Counsels Ranks 50 States Based on Litigation Environment
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas J. Donohue, President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
Humphrey Taylor, Chairman, The Harris Poll
Dr. Harriet Smith Windsor, Delaware Secretary of State
DATE: April 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on From Forced Assimilation to Struggles for Recognition: The Case of the Roma in Post-1989 East-Central Europe with Julia Szalai, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Department of Research on Social Policy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; and Wilson Center Fellow.
DATE: April 9, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Chairman of the Lloyd's of London, Lord Peter Levene, speaking about terrorism and war risk.
DATE: April 10, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Is Islam Inherently Anti-American?
WHO: The speakers are:
Featuring Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad Author, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality (Zed Books, 1991)
Peter Bergen, Author, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden (Free Press, 2001).
DATE: April 10, 2003
LOCATION: The Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a luncheon discussion on "Dangerous Minds: The Track Record of Economic and Financial Analysts."
With Dean Baker, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
DATE: April 10, 2003
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Open Networks, Closed Regimes with Shanthi Kalathil, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
DATE: April 10, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2003
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Professional Affairs Committee will sponsor a panel discussion on polls that show minorities, particularly African-Americans, disapprove of the war more than other groups.
WHO: The speakers are:
John AbiNader, Arab American Institute; Rev. Walter Fauntroy, former congressman who recently lead a 10-day peace mission to Iraq; George Curry, National Newspaper Publishers Assn.; David Bosits, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Dr. Alan Gropman, Dept. of Grand Strategy and Mobilization, along with Moderator Askia Muhammed, National Scene News Bureau.
DATE: April 11, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture on "China's Wild West: Report from the Field" with Anne Thurston, associate professor of China studies at SAIS, and several SAIS students will discuss their visit to Beijing, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Gansu, focusing on such issues as poverty alleviation, education, the environment and the development of the West Campaign.
DATE: April 11, 2003
LOCATION: Room 806, 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 "How Do They All Add Up? Quebec Elections, Iraq Perceptions and Canada-U.S. Relations" with Pierre Martin, a professor of political science at the University of Montreal.
DATE: April 11, 2003
LOCATION: Room 417, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org