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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: 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 presents 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.
12 noon - Traditional Japanese dance and music, Union Station
DATE: March 27, 2002
CONTACT: 202-661-7596
WEB ADDRESS: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES holds its Sea/Air/Space Exposition.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Professional Seminar: Information Warfare 2002 And Spawar 2002
12 noon - Sea-Air-Space Luncheon
General Peter Pace, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
2 p.m. - Professional Seminar:" Navy's Force Protection And Coast Guard Homeland Defense"
8 p.m.- Sea-Air-Space Banquet
Presentation of the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award
Entertainment: The Capitol Steps
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Kirk Monroe, 202-331-0175
WEB ADDRESS: navyleague.org
TIME: All day
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on U.S. Assessments of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Economy: Lessons Learned and Not Learned. The purpose of the conference is to examine how the United States developed assessments and the mistakes that were made in these assessments of the Russian economy. We hope to come away from the conference with some lessons that will improve how assessments are made in the future
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - "Revisiting the Estimates and Analyses of the Soviet Era"
Nikolai Petrakov, Market Economy Institute, RAS (confirmed)
Abraham Becker, RAND (confirmed)
Igor Birman, independent scholar (confirmed)
Robert Campbell, Indiana University (confirmed)
2:15 p.m. - Panel Two:
"Assessments of Russian Reform Programs"
Mikhail Zadornov, Deputy, Russian State Duma (confirmed)
Mark Medish, Akin Gump (confirmed)
Peter Reddaway, George Washington University (confirmed)
Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment (confirmed)
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference on Unrest in China's Xinjiang Province entitled, "Xinjiang: Muslim and Turkic Unrest in China's 'New Territory."
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Historical Background
Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884-1978
James Millward, Georgetown University Chinese Policy Today
The Chinese Program of Development and Control, 1978-2001
Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii
The Economy of Xinjiang, Calla Wiemer, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Chinese Military and Xinjiang, Yitzhak Shichor, Hebrew University
12:15 p.m. - Xinjiang From Within
Education and Mobility, Linda Benson, Oakland University (not in attendance)
Trans-Border Contacts and Interactions, Sean Roberts, SUNY Buffalo
Costs of Development and Control Demography and Social Dynamics
Stan Toops, Miami University, Ohio
Ecological Impact of Chinese Development
San Toops, Miami University, Ohio
Public Health and Social Pathology
Jay Dautcher, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 p.m. - The Indigenous Response
Identities in Flux: Adaptation and Resistance
Justin Rudelson, University of Maryland/Central-Asia Caucasus Institute
William Jankowiak, University of Nevada
Islam in Xinjiang, Graham Fuller, RAND
Jonathan Lipman, Mt. Holyoke College
Contested Histories, Gardner Bovingdon, Washington University, St. Louis
Patterns of Opposition, Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii
Scenarios for the Future, Panel of "Xinjiang Project" participants
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Policy Insiders Series will host Office of Management & Budget Director Mitch Daniels discussing the overall budget situation as well as activities on the Senate Budget committee, the FY 2002 supplemental request and President Bush's management initiatives during his speech.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: GLOBAL BUSINESS DIALOGUE, INC. holds a colloquium on Breakthrough Or Broken: The Steel Decision And The Escape Clause Process.
AGENDA: On March 5, the Bush Administration announced various forms of import relief (import restrictions) for a number of steel products over the next three years. WHO: The speakers are:
Tim Reif, House Ways and Means
Petros Sourmelis, EU Delegation
Kevin M. Dempsey, Dewey Ballantine
Richard O. Cunningham, Steptoe & Johnson
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5074
WEB ADDRESS: gbdinc.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a program on coverage and the War on Terrorism The Impact of September 11 on Public Opinion: Increased Patriotism, Unity, Support for Bush; More Interest in News.
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies, The Brookings Institution, author of numerous books on media and politics
Marvin Kalb, Executive Director, Washington Office, The Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; former Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS News and NBC News; Former moderator of NBC's Meet the Press
David Broder, Columnist, The Washington Post
William Kristol, Editor and Publisher, The Weekly Standard
Margaret Carlson, Columnist, TIME Magazine
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: The Progress & Freedom Foundation holds a news conference releasing its privacy survey results entitled "Privacy Online: A Report on the Internet Practices and Policies of Commercial Websites," featuring Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris
AGENDA: "The new 'web sweeps' survey measures the level of privacy protection at web sites visited by millions of Americans," PFF President Jeffrey A. Eisenach said in announcing the study's upcoming release. "Building upon the report issued by the Federal Trade Commission in May 2000, it will very likely have an important impact on the on-line privacy debate. There have been a number of significant developments."
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-289-8928
WEB ADDRESS: pff.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a health policy discussion on "The 2002 Medicare Trustees' Reports: Is the Outlook for Medicare Getting Worse?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Foster, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Robert Reischauer, Urban Institute
Thomas Saving, Texas A&M University
Eugene Steurerle, Urban Institute
Gail Wilenshky, Project HOPE
Joseph Antos, AEI
12 noon -- Luncheon speaker is Tommy Thompson, Secretary, HHS
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY will host a convocation honoring Anders Fogh Rasmussen, prime minister of Denmark. Prime Minister Rasmussen will be conferred the honorary degree "Doctor of Public Service" at the ceremony.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-1423
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on The Spam Wars: What Can Be Done about the Annoying, Unsolicited E-mail That Is Driving Us Crazy?
WHO: The speakers are:
Howard Beales, Federal Trade Commission
Rebecca Richards, TRUSTe
Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Jerry Cerasale, Direct Marketing Association
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore.
DATE: March 27, 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: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on "Does Britain or the United States have the Right Gasoline Tax?" with Ian W.H. Parry, Resources for the Future, and Kenneth A. Small, University of California, Irvine.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Robert Nelson, University of Maryland, speaking on "Economics and Religion: What is the Relationship."
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled "Gender Entanglements in the Time of Marxism: The Friendship of Wanda Wasilewska and Janina Broniewska in a Man's Revolution," with Marci Shore, Post-Doctorate Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, and JSTS alumna.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark giving an update on the New Zealand economy and discusses global and bilateral trade issues. Immediately following her remarks, the prime minister will hold press availability
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program on Safeguarding Our Country's Liberties: A Perspective from the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department Of Justice
Larry Thompson U.S. Department of Justice.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY European Foreign Service Association holds a program on The Emergence of EU's Foreign Policy Identity: Issues and Challenges Ahead.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Daniel Hamilton, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University and Executive Director of the American Consortium for European Studies. (ACES)
Dr. Jean-François Seznec, Adjunct Professor at the Program of Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Robert Ebel, Director Energy and Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Flutist Yoko Owada, who is internationally known performer of classical Western music, and a pioneer in the field of contemporary Oriental music.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
