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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: A GROUP OF ABOUT 30 MAYORS FROM ACROSS THE U.S. meet to discuss efforts to combat terrorism and promote travel and tourism.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. -- Ensuring security at Special events
Washington, DC Mayor Anthony Williams
Washington, DC Chief of Police Charles Ramsey
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-861-6766
WEB ADDRESS: usmayors.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE AND KAISER PERMANENTE present the Morning Star breakfast series featuring Mia Hamm, Olympic Gold Medalist.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-857-5921
WEB ADDRESS:bot.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF CYPRUS holds a briefing by Demetris Christofias, president of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Ritz Carlton, 22ne Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-234-1936
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on the management of the Brazilian economy.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eliana Cardoso, former advisor at the IMF
Jorge Mariscal, Goldman Sachs
Graham Stock, JP Morgan Chase
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HISPANIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS holds a forum entitled "The Post-9/11 Effects on Immigration and Economic Development in the Americas."
WHO: The speakers are:
Barbara Chaffee, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Public Liaison at the Office of Homeland Security;
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Business and Economic Development Task Force
Ricardo Calderon, Chairman, Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce
Briant Lindsay Lowell, Ph.D., Director of Research, Pew Hispanic Center;
Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, National Council of La Raza;
Introductory remarks by Frank D. Gómez, Chairman, Hispanic Council on International Relations
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, West Room, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-776-1754
WEB ADDRESS: hcir.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Gene-Related Inventions:
Evolving Patent Standards and Their Consequences."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Science, Economics, and Patent Law
Lee Bendekgey, Incyte Genomics
Iain Cockburn, Boston University
Rochelle K. Seide, Baker Botts L.L.P.
John E. Calfee, AEI
10:45 a.m. - Perspectives from the Patents and Trademark Office and Capitol Hill
John Doll, Patents and Trademark Office
Chris Katopis, House Subcommittee for Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
Maureen Mellody, Office of Rep. Howard Berman, D-CA
Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustad, formerly of the Patents and Trademark Office
John E. Calfee, AEI
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE holds a news conference entitled "World Bank Land Reform: Reality or Rhetoric."
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephan Schwartzman, Environmental Defense
Alberto Mattins, Landless Rural Workers Movement, Brazil
Perter Rosset, Food First
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-387-3500
WEB ADDRESS: environmentaldefense.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS holds a news conference to announce plans for the a Pro-Palestinian Rally.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, West Room, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tony Murphy, or Sarah Sloan, 202-332-5757
WEB ADDRESS: internationalanswer.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: REP. CHRIS SMITH, R-NJ, AND REP. JOHN LAFALCE, D-NJ, hold a news conference to discuss the Debt Relief Improvement Act.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Senate Swamp, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3765
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum on Exiting the Balkan Thicket. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, American policymakers have been forced to reassess their priorities and consider longer-term and more flexible strategies for meeting unexpected contingencies in the post--Cold War world.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute
John Hulsman, Heritage Foundation
E. Wayne Merry, Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Center.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a program featuring Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: MEI, 1761 N Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGE C. MARSHALL INSTITUTE Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy presents Energy In The 21st Century with Jesse Ausubel, director, Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, New York City.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: University Club, 1135 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-9655
WEB ADDRESS: marshall.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Andrew Carroll talking about how and why he founded the Legacy Project, a national non-profit organization that encourages Americans to seek and preserve wartime correspondence, and which has collected over 60,000 never-before-seen letters from every war in the nation's history.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a luncheon discussion on "American Values and the U.S. Foreign Policy."
WHO: The speakers are:
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard
Uwe Simon-Netto, United Press International
Andrew Bachevich, CSIS, Boston University
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-5078
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Chairman of the Kuomintang Party of the Republic of China, and former Premier and Vice President of the ROC, Dr. Lien Chang, discussing "Taiwan and the Koumintang Party: Where Are They Headed?"
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a meet the Author for Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War with Arnold Offner, Lafaette College.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Public Affairs Forum entitled "The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable."
WHO: The speakers are:
Gretchen C. Daily, Co-Author, The New Economy of Nature: Editor, Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems
Katherine Ellison, Co-Author, The New Economy of Nature
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY American Studies Program The presents Richardson American Studies Lecture Series featuring Sen. George J. Mitchell (U.S. Senate, 1980-1995), discussing "World Peace: Is it an Impossible Dream?"
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: Gaston 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 features Mariza who has been compared to Amália Rodrigues, the icon of the fado.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:20 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program featuring Robert D. Kaplan, Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly; Author Robert Kaplan discusses his books, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos and Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Thomas Lippman, Middle East Institute; Author, Understanding Islam;
former Middle East Correspondent, The Washington Post
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-434-9677
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Martha Manning discussing and signing copies of her new book, The Common Thread. She reveals that the "role of empathy at each developmental phase" is crucial to the relationship between daughters and mothers.
DATE: April 18, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
