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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MAY 20, 2002
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Political Management, The Democracy Online Project will host the 8th Politics Online Conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Carol C. Darr, Director, Democracy Online Project, GWU - Jack Morton Auditorium
9:10 a.m. - The New Campaign Finance Law: Impact on Internet Politics
Richard Viguerie, Chairman, American Target Advertising
Jan Baran, Partner, Wiley, Rein & Fielding
Ellen Malcolm, Founder & President, Emily's List
Paul Equale, President, Equale and Associates and former Chair of the Business Council of the Democratic National Committee
11:15 a.m. - The Best of the Best: The Golden Dot Awards
12 noon -- The luncheon program on Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of Annenberg School for Communication, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, UPENN
4 p.m. - Closing Plenary: Just When, Exactly, is it Spam? (And When is it Okay?)
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-585-2841
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program with U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to discuss Post-9/11 Environment.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Parrish, Director of Anti-Terrorism, U.S. Customs Service
Rob Quartel, Chairman and CEO, Freightdesk Technologies
Carl Bentzel, Majority Senior Counsel, Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Subcommittee
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS holds a congressional briefing on Foreign Military Aid, Trade, and Training.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dana Priest, reporter for the Washington Post who has just returned from Afghanistan and recently completed a book on the role of the regional military commands in military training overseas.
Major General William L. Nash (ret.), Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, former Program Manager for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program and military commander in Bosnia.
Debra Avant, Associate Professor, George Washington University,
Sharon Burke, Advocacy Director for Military, Security and Police Issues, Amnesty International USA.
Lora Lumpe, author of a new FPIF report, U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power and Oversight Issues
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 385 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Kathy Spillman, 202-234-9382 ext. 258
WEB ADDRESS: ips-dc.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring Adventurer Gus McLeod discussing his new adventure, to become the first solo pilot to circumnavigate the globe going pole to pole.
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-243-6987
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PEW PARTNERSHIP FOR CIVIC CHANGE holds a news conference to discuss releasing the results of an extensive three-year national research initiative documenting 19 innovative community programs from around the country. A panel discussion following the news conference to address the national impact of the solutions.
AGENDA: Highlights:
News conference
Paul Grogan, president, The Boston Foundation
Suzanne Morse, executive director, Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Norm Glickman, distinguished university professor, Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University
Panel Discussion Participants
Matt Miller, nationally syndicated columnist and radio host
Jim Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
John Pepper, chairman of the board of Procter & Gamble
Anne Ganey, director of Minnesota Region 9 Prevention and Healthy Communities Network
Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and immediate past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-667-0901
WEB ADDRESS: pew-partnership.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail with Malika Oufkir, author.
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE holds 2nd annual Congressional Fuel Cell Expo featuring exhibits of cutting-edge fuel cell technologies from the nation's leading fuel cell producers, component suppliers, and research institutions.
WHO: The speakers are:
12:30 pm. -- Briefing with Rep. Nancy Johnson, D-CT
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 345 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-1400
WEB ADDRESS:eesi.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Elliott School of International Affairs will host a briefing with faculty experts on President Bush's upcoming trip to Russia.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Goldgeier, director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, will moderate the briefing.
Leon Fuerth, Shapiro Professor and national security advisor to Al Gore, will discuss national security issues.
Karl F. Inderfurth, former assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs and professor of the practice of international affairs, will discuss nuclear disarmament and the war on terrorism.
Hope M. Harrison, served in the National Security Council for the Clinton and Bush Administrations and assistant professor of history and international affairs, will discuss the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Peter Reddaway, former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and professor of political science and international affairs, will discuss Russian politics
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: Elliott School Commons, Stuart Hall, Room 103, 2013 G Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Eric Solomon, 202-994-3087
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds program on How U.S. Government Export Control Assistance in the Former Soviet Union and Central Europe Prevent Proliferation with T. Scott Bunton, former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration, and Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar.
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a Pre-Bush-Putin Summit briefing.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rose Gottemoeller is a senior associate in Carnegie's Russian and Eurasian Program and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Project. Formerly deputy undersecretary of energy for defense nuclear non-proliferation, she is an expert in nuclear security, with a focus on Russia.
Michael Mcfaul is a senior associate in the Russian and Eurasian Program and a Hoover Fellow and professor of political science at Stanford University. He focuses on Russian domestic politics and economics.
Martha Brill Olcott, senior associate in the Russian and Eurasian Program, specializes in democratic and economic transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and politics and ethnicity in former Soviet states. She is an authority on regional issues of the US war on terror.
Anders Åslund, senior associate in the Russian and Eurasian Program, is a leading specialist on post-communist economic transformations and has served as an advisor to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS:ceip.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Bush-Putin Summit: Building a Strategic Partnership in the War on Terror."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Jim Saxton, R -- NJ
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Davis Institute, The Heritage Foundation
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB holds its ceremonial award dinner honoring Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, as Woman of the Year Dinner.
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Rabbi Schmuley Boteach discussing and signing copies of Judaism For Everyone which reflects the thinking of a modern orthodox Jew who is unorthodox in his thinking: Traditional in ritual and observance, but he nonetheless believes that Judaism is about the present.
DATE: May 20, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
