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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2002
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents Brazil's Energy Czar Minister Pedro Pullen Parente discussing Prospects for Brazilian Energy Sector.
DATE: March 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service James Ziglar.
DATE: March 19, 2002
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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Boston Globe columnist, Alex Beam, returns to our podium with a new bestseller, "Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital."
DATE: March 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY holds its 40th Goddard Memorial Symposium themed "Partnering with NASA - The Wave of the Future."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Space Science & Technology
Chair: Andrew Dantzler, Assistant Director for Technology, NASA GSFC
12:15 p.m. -- Luncheon speakers is Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator
2:15 p.m. - II: Interagency and International Partnerships
DATE: March 20, 2002
LOCATION: Greenbelt Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, Maryland
CONTACT: 703-866-0020
WEB ADDRESS: astronautical.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Seeking Justice in the Balkans: New Strategies of War Prevention."
WHO: The speakers are:
Nina Bang-Jensen, executive director and general counsel of the Coalition for International Justice
Mark Freeman, a senior associate at the International Center for Transitional Justice, will discuss this topic
DATE: March 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
Thursday, March 21, 2002
TIME: All day
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS holds its Washington symposium themed International Dimensions of Higher Education in the Next Decade, which brings together senior-level educators to stimulate discussion on current issues in international education.
DATE: March 21, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-737-3699
WEB ADDRESS: nafsa.org
TIME: 2 p.m. please note time
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Do 401(k) Plans Help Retirees and the U.S. Economy?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric M. Engen, AEI
James Poterba, MIT
Julia Coronado, Federal Reserve Board
Kent Smetters, U.S. Department of Treasury
Kevin Hassett, AEI
DATE: March 21, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine: Competing Political Blocks and Public Opinion with Oxana Shevel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.
DATE: March 21, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
Friday March 22, 2002
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Chairman of the South Africa Diamond Board and Chairman of the Kimberly Process, Abbey Chikane, discussing "The Kimberly Diamond Process: After Ottawa."
DATE: March 22, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Survival 101: The New Demography and What It Means" featuring AEI scholar Ben Wattenberg discussing upcoming book on demographics, immigration and foreign policy. Among his findings: America will grow from 283 million people to nearly 400 million people in the next half century.
DATE: March 22, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
