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EVENTS ON MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NORTH AMERICAN SECURITIES ADMINISTRATORS ASSOCIATION holds its 17th Annual Public Policy Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12:15 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. Keynote Address: Brian Wesbury, First VP & Chief Economist, Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson, Inc. Is the New Economy Dead, Or Just Getting Started? Recession,
1:45 p.m. Security Futures Contracts: The Promise and the Pitfalls. After much fanfare and regulatory jockeying, so-called "single stock futures" are finally coming to market.
2:45 p.m. - Who Ya Gonna Call? Who Is Regulating the Securities Activities of Banks? With passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, more and more banks are selling securities products.
4:00 p.m. - Analyst Independence: Lessons Learned from the Enron and Dot.com Debacles.
5:30 p.m. - Reception: U.S. Botanical Gardens, 245 First Street SW
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-737-0900
WEB ADDRESS: nasaa.org
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE seminar series in tax policy entitled The Tax Policy Outlook: Where Do We Go From Here?
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher Demuth, AEI
Lawrence Lindsey, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY holds a program on "Where Do Department of Energy Tax Dollars Really Go?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Don Hancock, director Waste Safety Program Southwest Research and Information Center
Tom Carpenter, Government Accountability Project
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Carlean Ponder, Nuclear Policy Associate
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 562 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-547-4374
WEB ADDRESS: ananuclear.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SHADOW OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE will hold its semi-annual press conference on economy, the Fed, defense and Argentina.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Anna J. Schwartz, co-chair National Bureau of Economic Research
Dean and Prof. Charles Plosser, co-chair John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Rochester
Dr. Mickey D. Levy, Bank of America
Dr. W. Lee Hoskins, senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute
Prof. Alan C. Stockman, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
Prof. Gregory D. Hess, Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics, Oberlin College
Prof. Bennett McCallum, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-842-0200
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM holds a rally marking "Tax Day."
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: West Lawn, US Capitol, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-785-0266
WEB ADDRESS:atr.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: FAMILIES USA holds a news conference to discuss "Making The Drug Industry Play Fair."
WHO: The speakers are:
William Kivacic, Federal Trade Commission
Meredyth Andrus, Assistant Attorney General, State of MD
Patrick Cafferty, Miller Faucher and Cafferty, LLP
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-3030
WEB ADDRESS: familiesusa.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA, STANFORD, AND YALE hold an audio news conference releasing New Lives for Poor Families? Mothers and Children Move through Welfare Reform to the Bush Administration.
AGENDA: TOLL-FREE CALL-IN #: (888) 747-3446, PASSCODE 5910942
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Fuller, study co-director, professor of education and public policy, University of
California, Berkeley
Sharon Lynn Kagan, study co-director, professor of child and family policy, Columbia University
Susanna Loeb, study co-director, professor of education and economics, Stanford University
DATE: April 15, 2002
CONTACT: Nancy Bennett, 800-834-1110
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Defining Nationhood: Politics of Ethnicity and Language in Post-Soviet Ukraine Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "What Are the New Trends in China's Economic System?"
WHO: The speakers are:
James R. Lilley, AEI
Siyuan Cao, Beijing Siyuan Research Center
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring Katy Moran of Renew the Earth discussing the controversy of bio prospecting in the developing world.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a forum on "Refocusing the IMF."
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas C. Dawson, director of the External Relations Department at the International Monetary Fund
Max Corden, Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at SAIS
Enzo Grilli, SAIS professor of international economics
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Refugees, Statelessness and Citizenship in East Africa."
Gilbert Khadigala, acting director of the SAIS African Studies Program
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: Room 200, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS hold a national Rally for Israel.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: West Front, U.S. Capitol Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-265-3000
WEB ADDRESS: nybr.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Public Affairs Forum holds a program discussing "A Radical Centrist Agenda?" with John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Author, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT holds its 40th Anniversary symposium to explore How Developing Countries Can Successfully Absorb Dramatic Increases in Spending on Health.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University, Chairman, WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Dr. John W. LeSar, Senior Vice President and Co-Director, AED Global Health, Population, and Nutrition Group
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
Dr. Stephen Kinoti, Senior HIV/AIDS Advisor, AED
Oscar Picazo, Senior Health Reform and Financing Specialist, AED
Dr. Alexander Preker, Chief Health, Nutrition, Population Economist, The World Bank
Dr. Suzanne Prysor-Jones, Vice President and Director, AED Center for Health Policy and Capacity Development
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: Conference Center, 1825 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-884-8631
WEB ADDRESS:aed.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Bradley Lecture features John Gray, London School of Economics discussing Globalization: An Ur-conservative View.
DATE: April 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: MERIDIAN HOUSE holds a lecture on "The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go it Alone," featuring Joseph S. Nye Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Crescent Place NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-939-5543
WEB ADDRESS: meridian.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDYCENTER MILLENIUM STAGE KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL features Clarion University students' presenting excerpts from Songs from a New World.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents a lecture on "Spanish Priorities for the EU Presidency" featuring Javier Ruperez, Spanish Ambassador to the United States.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: Riggs Library, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Paul Greenberg discussing and signing copies of Leaving Katya a novel about romance between a Russian and an American.
DATE: April 15, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
