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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT holds a news conference on FY 2003 Defense Budget.
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Krepinevich, CSBA Executive Director
Steven Kosiak, CSBA Director of Budget Studies
Stan Collender, Senior Vice President, Federal Budget Consulting Group, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: Jefferson Hotel, 16th and M Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-331-7990
WEB ADDRESS: csbaonline.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE holds a colloquium on "After The Appeal: The FSC/ETI Dilemma."
WHO: The speakers are:
Assistant Secretary Faryar Shirzad, Department of Commerce
Ted Posner, Senate Finance Committee
Gary Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics
William A. Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-223-7687
WEB ADDRESS:gbs.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY holds a breakfast briefing to release a report on Federal Funding for Biomedical and Related Life Sciences Research, FY 2003, its annual report to Congress.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Paulette Campbell, 301-571-0657
WEB ADDRESS:faseb.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SAUDI INSTITUTE holds a news conference releasing its report on religious freedom of Saudi citizens.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 311 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-766-0200
WEB ADDRESS: saudiinstitute.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Federal District in Today's Russia: Its Function and Effectiveness with Sergei Kirienko, Presidential Representative to the Volga Federal District and former Prime Minister, Russian Federation.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOMEN IN HOUSING AND FINANCE holds a luncheon program featuring Sen. Ben Nelson, D-NE, discussing insurance issues.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 515 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-751-7328
WEB ADDRESS: whfdc.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Brazil in 2002" with Paulo Sotero, North America chief correspondent for O Estado de S. Paolo.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a national issues forum on an "Assessment of Bush's First Year and Future."
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies Program
Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies Program
Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program;
Co-Director, Welfare Reform & Beyond
Paul C. Light, Vice President and Director, Governmental Studies Program;
Director, Center for Public Service
Tom Loveless, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies Program; Director, Brown Center on Education Policy
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies Program
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program
Bill Frenzel, Guest Scholar, Governmental Studies Program
James M. Lindsay, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR PEACE IN CHECHNYA hold a briefing on the Prospects for Peace in Chechnya.
WHO: The speakers are:
Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Ilyas Ahkmadov,
Andrei Babitsky, Russian War Correspondent
Zbigniew Brzezinski, CSIS
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-293-9072
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program on Homeland Security Agenda for 2002: Priorities from the State Of The Union Address."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dan Fisk The Heritage Foundation
Jack Spencer The Heritage Foundation
Larry Wortzel, The Heritage Foundation
Michael Scardaville, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: ROLE OF AMERICAN MILIRTARY POWER holds a book launch for Jane Holl Lute who discusses and signs copies of her book "Greater Guns For Greater Goods."
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA
CONTACT: 703-907-2400
WEB ADDRESS:ausa.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Kayaga of Africa, musicians and dancers of varied cultures of Uganda.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC RELATIONS SOCIETY OF AMERCA holds a professional seminar entitled "Stirred But Not Shaken: How America Communicates in the Face of Catastrophe."
WHO: The speakers are:
James Wilkinson -- Director of the Coalition Center, The White House
Shelley Thakral -- Producer, BBC, Washington Bureau
Hafez Mirazi -- Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera, Washington Bureau
Sharon Gang -- Deputy Director, Office of Communications,
Office of the Mayor, Washington DC
Jamie Moeller -- Managing Director for Global PR Practice, Ogilvy International
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-776-9612
WEB ADDRESS: prsa-ncc.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents the third annual Casey/McIlvane Lecture featuring Cokie Robert the chief congressional analyst for ABCNEWS and the co-anchor of the ABCNEWS Sunday morning broadcast, "This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts" and Steve Roberts, currently a contributing editor for U.S. News and the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: Bunn Intercultural Center Auditorium, 37th & O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER holds a seminar entitled "Challenges and Opportunities for the United States in the Middle East and North Africa," with William Burns, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Crescent Place NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-939-5568
WEB ADDRESS:meridian.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Sen. James Jeffords, I-VT, discussing and signing copies of his book "My Declaration Of Independence" in which he shares his actions regarding the 2001 departure from the Republican Party.
DATE: January 30, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
