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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY School of Law presents The 2002 Networked Economy Summit themed "Meeting Security Challenges with Technology."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Orson Swindle, Commissioner, United States Federal Trade Commission
Tatiana Gau, Senior Vice President, Integrity Assurance, America Online, "The Age of Transformation: Chapter 2 of the Internet"
9:40 a.m. - Bernie Dagenais, Editor, Potomac Tech Journal
Steven Cole, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Better Business Bureaus and BBBOnline,
"Protecting Digital Buyers and Sellers-A Global Trust Mark"
10 a.m. - Bradford Brown, Chairman of the Tech Center, George Mason University
Stratton Sclavos, President & CEO, VeriSign,
"The Future of Digital Identity"
10:30 a.m. - Dr. Jeff Eisenach, President, the Progress & Freedom Foundation
Timothy Muris, Chairman, United States Federal Trade Commission, "The Role of the FTC in Protecting Consumers"
10:55 a.m. - Introduction: Uwe Jens Neumann, President & CEO, Hamburg @ Work / Hamburg Multimedia Association
Sean Ballington, U.S. Systems & Technology Assurance Solutions Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
"Identity Management"
11:15 a.m. - Dr. Richard Klimoski, Dean, School of Management, George Mason University
John Nolan, Deputy Postmaster General, United States Postal Service, and
Michael Critelli, Chairman & CEO, Pitney Bowes,
"Securing Mail Deliveries"
11:55 a.m. - Introduction: Dean Mark Grady, George Mason University School of Law
Rep. Jim Moran, D-VA
"Homeland Security and the Future Role of Government and the Private Sector"
12:15 p.m. - Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA
Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City "Leadership in Times of Crisis"
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston VA
CONTACT: 703-790-0760
WEB ADDRESS: networked-economy.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Pew International Journalism Program holds conference on Impact of September 11 on International News Coverage.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:00 - Welcoming remarks
Donald Kimelman, Director, Venture Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts; John
Schidlovsky, Director, Pew International Journalism Program; Louise
Lief, Deputy Director, Pew International Journalism Program
9:15 a.m. - "Do Americans Want More International News?"
Kevin Klose, President and CEO, National Public Radio
Andrew Kohut, Director, The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Dwight L. Morris, President, Dwight L. Morris & Associates
Robert Rivard, Editor, San Antonio Express-News (invited)
10:45 a.m. - "The View From Abroad"
William Kovach, Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists
Emad Adeeb, Chairman, Al Alam Al Youm Newspaper, Egypt
Host, "On the Air!," Orbit TV and Radio Network, Middle East
Doyinsola Abiola, Vice Chairman, Concord Group of Newspapers, Nigeria
Najam Sethi, Editor, The Friday Times, Pakistan
Marcus Brauchli, National Editor, The Wall Street Journal
2 p.m. - Keynote Address by Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC News
3:15 p.m. - "Covering the News for Changing U.S. Communities"
Alex S. Jones, Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Martin Baron, Editor, The Boston Globe
Steven Coll, Managing Editor, The Washington Post
J. Gerardo Lopez, Editor, La OpiniĆ³n
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HEALTH SYSTEMS CHANGE holds its Seventh Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington.
AGENDA: Panelists will discuss the impact of broad trends shaping the health care system, including rising costs for employers and consumers, managed care's ability to control costs, hospital and physician capacity constraints and the role of pharmaceuticals in health care.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joe France, Director, Equity Research, Credit Suisse First Boston
Roberta Walter Goodman, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Joy M. Grossman, Associate Director, Center for Studying Health System Change
Robert Reischauer, President, The Urban Institute
William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Care Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office
Ed Shapoff, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Ken Weakley, Managing Director, UBS Warburg
Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-264-3484
WEB ADDRESS: hschange.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring President of the Republic of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, discussing "The Andean Trade Preference ACT (ATPA), Counter Narcotics Efforts in The Andean Region and The Future of the Export of Bolivian Natural Gas to the U.S."
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on "The Future of Telecommunications Regulation."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Harold Furchtgott-Roth, AEI
9:15 a.m. - An Executive's Perspective on the Future of Telecommunications Regulation
C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T
9:45 a.m. - Economic Perspectives on the Future of Telecommunications Regulation
Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution
Michael Katz, U.S. Department of Justice
Greg Rosston, Stanford University
David Sappington, Federal Communications Commission
Robert Hahn, AEI
11:15 a.m. - Legal Perspectives on the Future of Telecommunications Regulation
Glen O. Robinson, University of Virginia
Donald M. Verrilli, JR., Jenner & Block
Kathleen Wallman, Wallman Consulting
Howard Waltzman, Committee on Energy and Commerce
Andrew Barrett, Barrett Group
1:30 p.m. - Legislative Perspectives on the Future of Telecommunications Regulation
Rep. Charles "Chip" Pickering, U.S. House of Representatives
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "From Conflict to Peace: The Case of Sri Lanka" with Edward Marks, president of Greenleaf Point, LLC, an affiliate professor at George Mason University and an adjunct fellow at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Earnest Corea, consultant for the
World Bank's Secretariat of the Consultative Group for International
Agricultural Research; and Karunyan Arulanantham, a medical doctor in
California and health adviser to the Tamil Refugee Relief Organization,
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Professional Affairs Committee and Pew International Journalism Program hold a program on "International News and the Media: The Impact of September 11."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:15 a.m. - "Do Americans Want More International News?"
10:45 a.m. - "The View from Abroad"
2 p.m. - Keynote address by Richard Sambrook, BBC News
3:15 p.m. - "Covering the News for Changing U.S. Communities"
5 p.m. - Reception for conference attendees
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Toward a North American Community: Changing Identities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States."
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephanie Golob, CUNY
Laura Macdonald, Carleton University
Alejandro Moreno, ITAM
The Emerging Relationship between Mexico and Canada
Isabel Studer, FLACSO
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, FOCAL
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds a news conference to dicusss "Martyrdom Attacks and Suicide Bombers."
AGENDA: Western media describes the September 11 attacks, as well as the dozens of attacks that have occurred in Israel, as suicide bombings, motivated by despair, frustration, and poverty. What are the religious roots of this phenomenon? What are its motivations?
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-955-9070
WEB ADDRESS: memri.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a program on "What Role Does The United States Have In The India-Pakistan Crisis?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Navnita Chadha-Behera, Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Author of State, Identity and Violence: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
Stephen Philip Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Author of "India: Emerging Power" and "The Pakistan Army"
Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan, Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Former Deputy Director, Strategic Plans Division (nuclear war-fighting office), Pakistan Army
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution; Former Deputy National Security Adviser
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA SERVICES holds a press breakfast on Growing Evidence of Risk to Children from Toxic Chemicals.
WHO: The speakers are:
Phillip J. Landrigan, MD, director, Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Herbert L. Needleman, MD, professor of Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, and internationally recognized expert on childhood lead poisoning And authors of the recently published "Raising Health Children in a Toxic World"
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: The Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-6670
WEB ADDRESS: ems.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Future of Peacekeeping with Jean-Marie Guehenno, Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. ROBERT TORRICELLI, D-NJ, SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, D-CT, AND JON CORZINE, D-NJ, hold a rally to support the establishment of an independent commission that would study events surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks and make recommendations to prevent future attacks.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Upper Senate Park, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Stephen Push, 703-757-1252
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on NATO at a Crossroad: Can It Cope with post-September 11th and Enlargement Challenges? With Jeffrey Simon, Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Azerbaijan on the Brink of Political Change" with Etibar Mamedov, chairman of the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Advisor on International Security Issues to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Dr. Weiss who will review the findings of Weiss Ratings analyses of brokerage firm abuses, examining industry practices and issue a white paper with recommendations for protecting investors.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE presents John Barrowman, appearing in the Sondheim Celebration as Robert in Company, and who has starred on television's Titans and Central Park West, on Broadway and London's West End, performing songs from the Broadway canon.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF INDIA presents Trisha Das, a young film director from India featuring a screening of the following two highly acclaimed documentaries directed by Trisha Das:
Fiddlers on the Thatch (28 minutes) - a documentary film produced for Doordarshan - show the amazing talent of a 75-strong western classical music orchestra, formed by the poorest children from Kalimpong, West Bengal. This documentary was sent to several International Film Festivals around the world. It was also selected and screened at the Trivandrum Film Festival. Steps and Strides (25 minutes) - a documentary of India's march into the new millennium is to be telecast on the Discovery Channel.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 2107 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-939-7041
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB author event featuring Charles Grodin discussing his new book, "I Like It Better When you're Funny."
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents the 53nd Annual Arthur S. Flemming Awards Program honoring Twelve outstanding federal employees for their public service.
AGENDA: Keynoting the event will be Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. One of this year's honorees include William T. Colston who led the construction on the Pentagon following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202- 994-6467
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE holds a seminar on The consequences of the biotechnology revolution featuring Dr. Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies discussing his recent book, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, which expands on this issue. He will explore the role of institutions and innovative approaches that could be taken to regulate the biotechnology industry.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: Nisha Narayanan, 202-326-6434
WEB ADDRESS: aaas.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER MERIDIAN HOUSE presents Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Ambassador of Pakistan to the Untied States.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Meridian International Center Meridian House, 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Claudine Hughes, 202-939-5568
WEB ADDRESS:meridian.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Lawrence and Cornelia Levine discussing and signing copies of The People And The President: America's Conversation With FDR which is a collection of letters, written in response to each of FDR's thirty-one Fireside Chats. Gleaning from millions of examples in the FDR Library, and giving historical context, the Levines have given voice to the ordinary Americans who lived through the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II: "an invaluable source for understanding the American people during these trying years."
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
