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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Contemporary Arab Studies hosts its annual symposium dedicated to "The Arab Novel: Visions of Social Reality."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Registration, coffee, and welcome
9:15 a.m. - Dr. Halim Barakat, Research Professor in Sociology and Arab Studies
10 a.m. -- Panel 1 Theorizing about the Novel: Modernity and Postmodernity
1:30 p.m. - Panel II Masked Identity: The Novel as Autobiography
3:45 p.m. - Panel III Arabian Nights
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE holds a conference on "Reclaiming America: Progressive Strategies for the New Era."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Panel of Pollsters
Celinda Lake, President, Lake Snell Perry and Associates
Rodolfo de la Garza, Professor, Columbia University
Ron Lester, President, Lester and Associates
Gloria Totten, Executive Director, Progressive Majority
11:30 a.m. - A Message and a Movement That Can Win
Paul Begala- Political activist, co-host, CNN Crossfire
Author, with James Carville of the new book, Buck Up, Suck Up... and Come Back When You Foul Up.
Ben Cohen- founder, Ben and Jerry's and organizer of Contract With the Planet, a project of the Priorities Campaign
Jim Hightower- populist political agitator, media commentator, organizer for Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour
Joel Rogers- Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-author, America's Forgotten Majority
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-5665
WEB ADDRESS: ourfuture.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS hold its National Legislative Conference. Agents have meetings with members of Congress to discuss numerous issues important to their livelihoods and to the consumers they represent. The 2002 legislative agenda will spotlight insurance regulation, tax cuts for small businesses, health insurance and managed care reform, medical and insurance privacy, retirement reform, natural disaster reform, flood insurance reform.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-706-5396
WEB ADDRESS: independentagent.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Africa Studies Program holds a conference entitled "The Impact of Colonial Bargaining on Intergroup Relations in Africa."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Session One - Chair: Barry Schutz
Owen J.M. Kalinga-North Carolina State University
Negotiating Independence Transitions in Malawi & Zambia
Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis
Negotiating Ghana's Independence Transition
10:45 a.m. - Session Two -- Chair: Donald Rothchild
Gilbert M. Khadiagala and Gonclavo Correa, SAIS
Negotiating Independence Transition in Angola
Lise Morjé, University of Maryland
Negotiating Independence Transition in Namibia
2 p.m. - Session Three -- Chair: I.W. Zartman
Shaheen Mozaffar, Bridgewater State College
Negotiating Independence in Mauritius
Mwayila Tshiyembe-Institut. Panafricain de Geopolitique Bibliotheque universitaire Droit
Negotiating Independence Transitions in Congo
3:30 p.m. - Session Four- Chair: Gilbert Khadiagala
E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo-Rice University
Negotiating Independence Transitions in East Africa
David Throup, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Lancaster House Negotiations-Kenya
4:30 p.m. - Summation-Chair: Donald Rothchild
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY holds its Spring symposium themed "Presidential Leadership and Civility in a Time of War."
AGENDA: Highlights:
4 p.m. - "What is America?-Tell the World"
Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College; author, One Nation, After All
John Harmon McElroy, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona; author, American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United
7 p.m. -Dinner Address: "What Goes on in the White House"
Clay Johnson, Assistant to the President and Director, Presidential Personnel and Deputy for the Chief of Staff
Maibach-Madison and Moses L. Gitelson Essay Award Announcements
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-737-8400
WEB ADDRESS: thepresidency.org
TIME: All day
EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS holds its health braintrust hearing to discuss the Status and Progress of the Department of Health and Human Services: Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health.
AGENDA: The program emphasizes the importance of eliminating health care disparities as it relates to access, treatment and availability in communities of color and other disadvantaged communities. The elimination of such disparities is the most cost-effective way to ensure a healthy and productive community. The CBC will also ensure that America keeps its promise to our veterans, and will support funding for the best health care programs at our veterans' hospitals.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 311 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3315
WEB ADDRESS:urbanhealthcast.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Business and Public Policy holds the workplace safety summit focusing on how to prevent deaths and injuries that occur on the job annually in the United States.
WHO: The speakers are:
John Henshaw, Assistant Secretary of Labor-OSHA, Washington, DC
John Mayo, PhD, Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, Washington, DC
Ellen Kullman, Group Vice President, DuPont, Wilmington, DE
Arturo Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers, Keene, CA
Peg Seminario, Director; Department of Occupational Safety and Health, AFL-CIO
Alan McMillan, President, National Safety Council, Itasca, IL
David Weil, Visiting Scholar, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS holds its 2002 conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12:30 p.m. -- The luncheon speakers is Sen. George Mitchell, author of the Mitchell Plan and chief presidential negotiator to the Middle East
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-453-1122
WEB ADDRESS: asne.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program entitled Is Open Source the Future of Software? Can "open source" software - software usually available without charge that individual users are free to modify - thrive in a Darwinian world of capitalist markets.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Bessen, Research on Innovation
David Evans, NERA
Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University
Brad Smith, Microsoft
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE Friday Forum presents a discussion on School Choice.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rich Hess, University of Virginia
Andrew Rotherham, director, PPI
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-547-0001
WEB ADDRESS:ppionline.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL REHABILITATION holds a briefing on "Post Conflict Afghanistan."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. William Kennedy Smith, director, Center For International Rehabilitation
Minister Abdullah Wardak
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 312-926-0021
WEB ADDRESS: cirnetwork.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SENS. HARRY REID, D-NV, TIM HUTCHINSON, R-AR, MAX CLELAND, D-GA, AND JOHN WARNER, R-VA, hold a news conference to discuss The Retired Pay Restoration Act.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Senate Swamp. U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-9521
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: SENATE LEADER TRENT LOTT, R-MS, SENATE CONFERENCE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN RICK SANTORUM, R-PA, SEN. ORRIN HATCH, R-UT, SEN. FRANK MURKOWSKI, R-AK, AND SEN. JON KYL, R-AZ, hold a news conference discussing the State of the Senate.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: S-207 Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-5358
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Novartis International Journalism Awards Program will host screenings of the following documentaries and discussions by the filmmakers:
12 noon - Exodus from Africa
1 p.m. Beneath the Veil
2 p.m. The Making of the Revolution
3 p.m. Unfinished War: Macedonia's Unresolved 'Albanian Issue
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Smart Borders, Secure Borders: Must We Curb Immigration to Be Safe from Terrorism?
WHO: The speakers are:
Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute
John Gay, Essential Worker Immigration Coalition
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: MERCY SHIPS is hosting an Awards Gala.
WHO: The speakers are:
CNN's Larry King, entertainer Wayne Newton,
Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins
Rep. Tony Hall, D-OH
Former First Lady of Honduras Mary de Flores
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: Four Season Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-670-8238
WEB ADDRESS:mercyships.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features The Washington Jazz String Project, Bud Caputo, conductor, exploring jazz improvisation.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: OLSSON'S BOOKS & RECORDS - METRO CENTER presents Harvard law professor Lani Guinier discussing her book, "The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy." Lani Guinier argues that issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone.
DATE: April 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1200 F St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202/347-3686
