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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: THE NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL. This year's 2002 festival marks the 90th celebration of the original gift of the 3,000 cherry trees by the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington, DC in 1912.
AGENDA: Highlights:
The National Maritime Heritage Foundation brings Freedom Schooner Amistad, 161 years after former President John Quincy Adams went before the United States Supreme Court to defend the captured Africans of the Spanish cargo ship La Amistad, the recreation of the famous ship will ride in the waters of the nation's capital.
*Pyramid Atlantic, paper making demonstration, Daily Cultural Performances at the Tidal Basin
* 12 noon - Envelop in the relaxing sounds and sights of traditional Japanese dance and music, Union Station
DATE: March 25, 2002
CONTACT: 202-661-7596
WEB ADDRESS: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS 2002 Washington Economic Policy Conference themed "US Policy in an Uncertain Global Economy."
AGENDA: Highlight:
12:30 p.m. - Harvey Rosenblum, NABE President and Director of Research/SVP, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, presiding
Tim O'Neill, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, Bank of Montreal, introducing
Paula Stern, President, The Stern Group, Inc., and former head of the U.S. International Trade Commission
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Metro Center, 775 12th Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-6223
WEB ADDRESS: nabe.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Perspectives in the 2002 Brazilian Elections featuring political analyst Joao Geraldo Piquet Carneiro.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY holds a news conference to discuss automated meter reading.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 4241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-787-2200
WEB ADDRESS:wasa.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law features Samantha Power, former Balkan war correspondent and a graduate of Harvard University discussing 20th Century acts of genocide and the United States' consistent failure to prevent or stop them.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY holds a news conference with the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen discuss in meeting the President George Bush.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 3200 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-5363
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Novgorod Model and Russia's Path with Natalia Dinello, Research Associate, CSR Incorporated, Arlington, VA.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the United States, Canada and Mexico" with Richard Estes, professor of social work at the University of Pennsylvania.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Biofortification: Can It Help the 800 Million Malnourished People in the Developing World?" with Bonnie McClafferty, a representative from the International Food Policy Research Institute.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION news conference on the Impact of 2002 Medicare Cuts on Skilled Nursing Patients.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION:
CONTACT: 202-336-7963
WEB ADDRESS:ahca.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Sudan: The Search for Peace."
WHO: The speakers are:
John Garang, founding member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and Chairman and Commander-in-Chief
Francis Mading Deng, U.N. Secretary General's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:15 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS holds a briefing with the National Association for Business Economics' Health Economics' Health Economics Roundtable, to discuss the current state and future of employer-based private health insurance.
WHO: The speakers are:
Glenn Hubbard, Chair, Council of Economic Advisors
Jim Rodgers, Vice President, American Medical Association and chair of the Health Economic Roundtable
NCPA President John C. Goodman, founding member of the Health Economic Roundtable
Jon Gabel, Hospital Research and Educational Trust
Len Nichols, Center for Studying Health System Change.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: HC-5 of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Sean Tuffnell, 1-800-859-1154
WEB ADDRESS:ncpa.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Department of Government presents The 2002 Sullivan Lecture in Ethics given by Benjamin Wittes, Editorial Writer for The Washington Post, entitled "Truth, Justice and The Future of Independent Public Integrity Investigations."
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Book Event featuring historian, Professor Bernard Lewis and Islamic scholar, Professor Akbar Ahmed discussing the current state of world affairs.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features journalist Todd Gitlin discussing and signing copies of Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. His book is frightening in its reporting and analysis: compared to a generation ago, the sentences we read in books are shorter and the dialogues we hear in the movies are more clipped.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY holds a "Women, the Arts and Environmentalism" panel discussion on how women in the visual arts and in literature are addressing environmental issues in their work, whether through film, sculpture, interior design, or the writing of eco-narratives.
WHO: The speakers are:
Judith Helfand, a New York filmmaker, who directed "A Healthy Baby Girl," (1996) about the carcinogenic synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol and women's cancers
Michelle Michney, an Ann Arbor, Mich., conservationist and sculptor
Norma Tilden, Georgetown University assistant professor of English, who is a specialist in "eco-narratives" and the study of environmental literature
Patricia Young, Howard University associate professor of art, whose specialty is studying interior design in relation to environmental concerns
Margaret D. Stetz (moderator), Georgetown University associate professor of English and women's studies
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND PRESIDENT STEPHEN JOEL TRACHTENBERG present University Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr for an evening lecture discussing, "Islam and the West: Yesterday and Today.
DATE: March 25, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-3087
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
