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EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 1, 2001
October 2, 2001
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a discussion on ¡§Defending America: A Homeland Defense Strategy For The 21st Century.¡¨
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher Whitcomb and Author, Cold Zero: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team Antulio J. Echevarria Author, The Army and Homeland Security: A Strategic Prospective
Larry Wortzel, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: October 2, 2001
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled "Debating the Real State of the World: Are Dire Environmental Claims Backed by Sound Evidence?" with Bjorn Lomborg, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and author.
DATE: October 2, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Fighting Terrorism, Preserving Civil Liberties.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Bob Barr, R - GA.
Solveig Singleton, Senior Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Stuart Taylor, Senior Writer, National Journal
Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law, George Washington University.
DATE: October 2, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
October 3, 2001
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled ¡§Toward a New Security Framework," with Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator from Georgia, co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
DATE: October 3, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program entitled ¡§The Environment: Getting Better, Not Worse.¡¨
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
James K. Glassman, AEI and TechCentralStation.com
Bjorn Lomborg, University of Aarhus
Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute
David Sandalow, World Wildlife Fund
DATE: October 3, 2001
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its ¡§Luncheon Newsmaker¡¨ news program with The Assistant for Legal Reform to President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Kozak, discussing "Legal Reform in Russia."
DATE: October 3, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
October 4, 2001
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Louise Shelley, Director, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University discussing Terrorism, Money and Organized Crime.
DATE: October 4, 2001
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled Iranian Women: Rising Expectations with Jaleh Shadi-Talab, Director of the Women's Center at Tehran University.
DATE:
October 4, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY presents Professor Akbar Ahmed discussing the understanding of Islam in relation to current events in his inaugural address as chair of the Islamic Studies Department.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ahmed A. Kattan, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States
Abdul Aziz Said, Mohamed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, American University
Osman bin Bakar, Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia, Georgetown University?n
John Esposito, director, Center for Muslim and Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Sulayman Nyang, professor of African Studies, Howard University
Lawrence Rosen, chair, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Tamara Sonn, William R. Keenan Distinguished Professor of Humanities, College of William & Mary
Yasmin Said, president, Muslim Student Association, American University
DATE: October 4, 2001
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
October 5, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES and the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College hold a daylong conference, ¡§The Defense Transformation Debate: The American Military at the Dawn of the 21st Century."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions
Eliot A. Cohen, Professor and Director of Strategic Studies, SAIS
8:40 a.m. - Keynote Address
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense (invited)
10 a.m. - Session I - Strategy
Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, SAIS
William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations, Boston University
11:45 a.m. - Luncheon Seminar Discussion: Imperatives for U.S. Defense Policy
Eliot Cohen, Professor and Director of Strategic Studies, SAIS
1:30 p.m. - Session II - Force Structure and Technology
Stephen Biddle, Associate Professor of National Security Studies, The Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Michael Vickers, Director of Strategic Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Michael O¡¦Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
3:15 p.m. - Session III - Organization
Thomas Mahnken, Professor of Strategy and Policy, Naval War College
Randy Larsen, ANSER Institute for Homeland Defense
Kurt Campbell, Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
DATE: October 5, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
