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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS hold protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual spring meetings. The protests will take place in solidarity and cooperation with the mobilization against US Intervention in Colombia and the School of the Americas as well as the March on Washington to Stop the War at Home and Abroad where militarisms critical part in perpetuating global injustice?
AGENDA: Highlighted events:
9 a.m. - Colombia Mobilization holds a briefing on how US policy toward Colombia is flawed and the how the US Army School of the Americas trains human rights violators in the Colombian military. St. Aloysius, Lower church 19th and Eye St. NW,
9 a.m. - United We March Coalition briefing Stop the War at Home and Abroad
11 a.m. -- School Of The Americas Watch holds a vigil to close the School of the Americas (SOA) & Lobby Action at the Capitol, Upper Senate Park
4 p.m. - Critical Mass Ride to Fight State Terrorism, Upper Senate Park
7 p.m. - Kick-Off Plenary Panel, St. Stephens Church, 16th and Newton Street
Open Mike for Poets and Song Writers, The Mitch Snyder Arts and Entertainment Center
117 D street North West
The Black Radical Congress Youth Caucus in collaboration with the Young, Communist League and the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition present a Small scale hip hop festival specifically for local DC youth, La Cada Vez Skylight Room, 14th and U Streets
10 p.m. - Free Concert by Washington DC Indie rock band Hoover's G-String
DATE: April 19, 2002
CONTACT: Steve Kretzmann, 202-497-1033 or Mark Rickling, 202-549-9525
WEB ADDRESS: globalizethis.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE holds a Spring Seminar of the roundtable on financial & Monetary Affairs "US & EU Governance of Financial Systems in Times of Crisis."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:45 a.m. - Jacqueline Grapin, President, The European Institute
Rodrigo Rato, Minister of Finance, Spain (to be confirmed)
9:15 a.m. - The Evolution of the Economic Situation in the US and Europe
Klaus Regling, Director General, Economic and Monetary Affairs Directorate, General, European Commission
Dr. Karen Johnson, Director, Division of International Finance, US Federal Reserve System
Dr. Gerald Grisse, Permanent Representative of the European Central Bank in Washington
10:45 a.m. - The Regulation of Financial Markets in Times of Crisis: Regional Integration and Crisis Management
Robert Dugger, Managing Director, Tudor Investment Corporation
Alan Beller, Director and Senior Counselor to the Commissioner, Division of Corporate Finance, SEC
Hervé Carré, Director, Economy of the Eurozone and the Union, Economic and Monetary Affairs Directorate-General, European Commission
Herbert A. Biern, Senior Associate Director (Applications and Enforcement), Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, US Federal Reserve System
12:15 p.m. - Luncheon program with Pedro Solbes Mira, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs
2 p.m. - News Conference Commissioner Pedro Solbes Mira
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Smithson, Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-895-1670
WEB ADDRESS: europeaninstitute.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Center for Global Peace holds a symposium Ameen Rihani: Bridging East and West."
AGENDA: Highlights:
11:15 a.m. - A Bridge Between the Arab World and the US: Rihani's Role
in Strengthening Arab-American Relations
"Values and Policies of Arab-American Relations: Rihani's
Perspective," Clovis Maksoud, American University
"Arab-American Art, Arab-American Understanding"
Ivonne A-Baki, ambassador of Ecuador
"Beyond Bridging: The Birth of a New Identity"
Mohamad Chatah, IMF
David Mack, Middle East Institute
2 p.m. - The Importance of Belonging and Universalism
"Ameen Rihani: Daring to Dream"
Dr. Halim Barakat, Georgetown University
"Rihani's English Manuscripts and Universalism"
Dr. Alice Birney, Library of Congress
"The Formation of a Universal Self: Rihani and Byron"
Dr. Naji Oueijan, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Dr. Hisham Sharabi, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine
3:30 p.m. - Pattern that Connects Rihani, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau,
Tolstoy, and Monahan "Rihani and Carlyle"
Dr. Geoffrey Nash, University of Sunderland, England
"Rihani, Emerson, and Thoreau"
Dr. Walter Dunnavent, Indiana University
"Rihani and Tolstoy"
Dr. Mikhail Rodionov, Russian Academy for Scientific Research Russia
"Rihani and Monahan"
Dr. Miles Bradbury, University of Maryland
Dr. John D. Anthony, National Council on US-Arab Relations
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS: au.edu
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON EDUCATION POLICY host a national symposium that will bring together policymakers, education officials and education experts to discuss the rapid emergence of virtual schooling themed The Challenge of Online High Schools: Can Essential Elements of Public Education Thrive in a New Learning Environment?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Jack Jennings, director, Center on Education Policy
Kathleen Fulton, director, Reinventing Schools for the 21st Century
Julie Young, executive director, Florida Virtual School
Donna Martin, coordinator, West Virginia Virtual High School
Sue Collins, chief education officer, Apex Learning
Andrew Zucker, program manager, SRI International
Patricia Graham, Charles Warren Professor, Harvard University
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Jury's Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-9450
WEB ADDRESS:cep-dc.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HOWARD UNIVERSITY Center for Sickle Cell disease holds its annual conference themed "Management of Sickle Cell Disease: Patient and Physician Perspectives."
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 2401 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-238-2332
WEB ADDRESS:howard.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND WORLD BANK GROUP hold the 2002 Spring Meetings.
AGENDA: Highlight:
10:30 a.m. -- News conference with James D. Wolfensohn, President, World Bank Group
TBA -- News conference, Group of 24 Ministers
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: International Monetary Fund Headquarters, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-473-1000
WEB ADDRESS: worldbank.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Friday Forum holds a program on "A New Conversation among Civilizations: Toward a Common Understanding among Muslims, Jews, and Christians." With AEI's Michael Novak who will speak about the philosophical differences between Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: DEFENSE FORUM FOUNDATION holds a luncheon program on "The War on Terror: Why We are In it and How We Should Fight It" featuring former CIA director James Woolsey.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: B-339, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-534-4313
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS holds a luncheon & award presentation for Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN Habitat, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, In Recognition of Her Leadership In Promoting Sustainable Urban Habitat.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Holeman Lounge, 629 14th Street., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-454-2108 or Sharad Shankaradass, at 202-974-1304
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Protection Project Brown Bag Seminar Series presents "The Relationship Between Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: Focus on Southeast Asia" with Chris Beyer, director of Johns Hopkins University's Fogarty AIDS and TB International Training Programs.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Room 500, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a briefing on "Bio terrorism and Public Health Readiness."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Julie Gerberdinger, Center For Disease Control
Mary Selecky, Washington's State Department of Health
Sen. Bill Frist, R-TN
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 902 Hart Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "Freeing the Chinese Internet."
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul Baranowski, Peekabooty Project
William Baum, Voice of America
Ethan Gutmann, Project for the New American
Century
Greg Walton, Human Rights in China
Arthur Waldron, AEI
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents Inaugural Goldman Sachs Distinguished Lecture in the Memory of Michael P. Mortara on "Globalization and the Flow of Resources" featuring Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard University and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION Public Affairs Forum on "Enrons of the Environment? Financial Disclosure, Transparency and Environmental Protection."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ricardo Bayon, Fellow, New America Foundation
Michelle Chan-Fishel, Coordinator, Green Investments Project, Friends of the Earth
Cynthia Williams, Professor of Law, Fordham University
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND GREEK EMBASSY present a program on Greece's Economic Performance and Prospects.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ralph C. Bryant, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Nicholas C. Garganas, Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece
George S. Tavlas, Director-Adviser, Economic Research Department, Bank of Greece
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents essayist Joel Schalit, an editor at Punk Planet and U.C. Berkeley's cultural journal, examines religious fundamentalism, nationalism, the independent music industry, and the state of the "New Economy." In Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-Everything World.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com