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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION holds a it's annual network conference which brings together more than 1,600 community development practitioners themed 2001 conference, Community: A Capital Idea.
DATE: November 8 2001
LOCATION: Marriott-Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-2000
WEB ADDRESS: enterprisefoundation.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference on "Post-Crisis Malaysia: The Political and Economic Aftermath."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. -- Welcome and Opening Remarks
Professor Stephen Szabo, Interim Dean, SAIS
Professor Karl Jackson, Director, Southeast Asia Studies Program, SAIS
8:45 a.m. - Panel 1: New Malaysian Politics? Views from Academe
Dr. Meredith Weiss, Lecturer, Yale University
Dr. Pek Koon Heng, Scholar-in-Residence, School of International Service, American University
Dr. K.S. Jomo, Professor, University of Malaya
Ong Kian Ming, Policy Analyst, Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research
Dr. James Chin, Associate Professor, University of Papua New Guinea
11 a.m. - Panel 2: Political Transformations: Views from the Malaysian Political Ranks
Dr. Bridget Welsh, Assistant Professor, Southeast Asia Studies Program, SAIS
Khairy Jamaluddin, Supreme Council, United Malays National Organization (UMNO) Youth
Ti Lian Ker, State Assemblyman Pahang, Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA)
Dr. Syed Azman Syed Ahmad, MP Kuala Terengganu, Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
Adlan Benan Omar, Treasurer, Keadilan (Justice Party) Youth
Lim Guan Eng, Former MP, Democratic Action Party
12:45 p.m. - Keynote Speaker: Mr. Karim Raslan, Visiting Fellow, Columbia University & Senior Partner, Raslan Loong, Malaysia
2:15 p.m. - Panel 3: Economic Recovery? Macro Prespectives
Murray Hiebert, Washington DC Correspondent, Far East Economic Review
Dr. K.S. Jomo, Professor, University of Malaya
Dr. Bryan Ritchie, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Stephen Taran, Global Head of Sovereign Credit Research, Salomon Smith-Barney
4:15 p.m. - Panel 4: US-Asia-Malaysia Economic Relations
Dr. Orit Frenkel, General Electric Corporation
Remy Nathan, Director Brunei, Malaysia and eAsean Affairs, US-ASEAN Business Council
Eric Shimp, Director for ASEAN and Korean Affairs, Office of the US Trade Representative
Dr. Linda Lim, Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business,
University of Michigan Business School
7:45 p.m. - Keynote Speaker: Dato' Abdul Azim Mohd. Zabidi, Chairman National Savings Bank
Member, United Malays National Organization (UMNO) Supreme Council
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COAL COUNCIL holds its fall conference.
WHO: The speakers are:
11 a.m. -- Deputy Secretary Frank Blake
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-223-1191
WEB ADDRESS: nationalcoalcouncil.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: WOMEN IN HOUSING AND FINANCE holds a symposium on Mortgage Reform and Predatory Lending: Addressing the Challenges.
AGENDA: Highlighted panels:
Mortgage Reform:
Sue Johnson, Executive Director, Real Estate Services Providers Council, Inc. will moderate a panel discussing mortgage reform issues.
Predatory Lending:
Steve Zeisel, Senior Counsel for the Consumer Bankers Association, will moderate a panel focused on predatory lending issues.
Financial Literacy:
Lisa Andrews, President, Washington Communications Group, Inc., and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Public Liaison), will moderate a panel addressing financial literacy initiatives.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Willard Inter-Continental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
CONTACT: 202-752-1019
WEB ADDRESS:whfdc.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds seminar on "Coverage of the War on Terrorism: The Conflicting Needs Of The Media And The Department Of Defense."
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE AND CHINA CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH, holds a conference on Beijing present "China's Pension System: Crisis and allenge."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks
Justin Yifu Lin, Director, China Center for Economic Research
Edward H. Crane, President and Founder, Cato Institute
9:15 a.m. - Keynote Address
Sun Jian Yong, Deputy Director-General, Social Insurance Fund Supervision, Ministry of Labour and Social Security
The Future of China's Pension System
1:30 a.m. - Luncheon Address
José Piñera, Co-chairman of the Cato Project on Social Security Privatization and former Chilean Minister of Labor and Social Security
What China Can Learn from the Chilean Success Story
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION holds a briefing on American Indian Alaskan Native Education.
WHO: The speakers are:
Steve Anderson, NEA
Kerry Bird, President, National Indian Education Association
David Beaulieu, Department of Education
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-7228
WEB ADDRESS: nea.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: US PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP holds a news conference releasing its new report entitled Polluter Payday. The report analizies subsidies and tax breaks contained in the House energy Bill H.R. 4.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-546-9707
WEB ADDRESS:uspirg.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AAA holds a news conference on the leisure travel industry.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-942-2082
WEB ADDRESS:aaa.org
TIME: 11:45 a.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a luncheon featuring Viktor Yushchenko Former Prime Minister of Ukraine.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program on Israelis Confront the Failed Peace Process with Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science and director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SEN. DICK DURBIN, D-IL, SEN. MIKE DEWINE, R-OH, AND REP. TONY HALL, D-OH, hold a news conference discussing illegal diamonds.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Senate Radio/TV Gallery, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-7028
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a symposium entitled "Homeland Security - Defeating Terrorism In The 21st Century."
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: KUWAIT INFORMATION OFFICE "The War on Terrorism: A Parliamentarian's Perspective," with Mohammad Jassem Al-Saqer, Chairman of the Kuwait National Assembly's Foreign Relations Committee.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Watergate Office Building, 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Suite 404, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-0211, ext. 12
WEB ADDRESS: kuwait-info.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM briefing on "How States Are Coping With Tighter State Budgets In The Face Of Increasing Demand For Public Health Programs."
WHO: The speakers are:
Vern Smith from Health Management Associates
Barbara Edwards of the Ohio Medicaid program
Matt Salo of National Governors Association
Ed Howard, Alliance For Health Reform
Diane Rowland, Alliance For Health Reform
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Columbus Club, Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-466-5626
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring First Lady of the United States Laura Bush.
DATE: November 8, 2001
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. 2 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES holds conference call briefings covering the Baucus stimulus proposal that will be before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. The calls will also deal with a proposed temporary state sales tax moratorium that would have Washington reimburse the states for lost revenue.
DATE: November 8, 2001
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB features Rev. Barry Lynn is the Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Afghanistan: Averting Humanitarian Catastrophe, " with Urs Boegli, regional delegate to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2:15 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Gen Wesley Clark former Supreme Allied Commander and commander-in-chief of U.S. European command, will discuss strategies for fighting the war on terrorism.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY holds a program on "Voting Rights, and Wrongs."
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-639-0803
WEB ADDRESS:ceousa.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on "Medicare's Midlife Crisis."
WHO: The speakers are:
author Sue A. Blevin
Daniel "Stormy" Johnson, Past President, American Medical Association
Joseph Antos, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 4:45 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Can Russia Become a European Power?" with Angela Stent, professor and director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB 24th Annual Book Fair and Authors' Night. This year's event presents over 70 authors and more than 1,100 attendees. Children's books, cookbooks, Washington exposes, biographies, histories, humor and best-selling fiction all will be available. All books are new on the market this year.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:15 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents a forum on "Terrorism: What's Left Out?" to provide critical analysis of what precisely terrorism is, what its roots and causes are, and what is left out of the national discussion on terrorism that has been engaged since September 11.
WHO: The speakers are:
Judy Barsalou, Director, Grants Program, U.S. Institute of Peace
Michael Hudson, Saif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Bassam Haddad, Arab Studies Journal
Robert Jensen, University of Texas, Austin
Mark Lance, Georgetown University
Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch
Chris Toensing, Editor of the Middle East Peace Report
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features U.N. official Shashi Tharoor discussing and signing his new novel, RIOT. A young American aid worker, Priscilla Hart is killed in a remote village in Uttar Pradesh in north India. Her parents travel to the village to try to find out what actually happened.
DATE: November 8, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
