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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES holds its National Convention.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - John Fund, The Wall Street Journal
Prof. Jamin Raskin, American University School of Law (Commentator)
9:30 a.m. - Showcase Panel II: Law Enforcement Post 9/11: Balancing Civil Liberties and Public Safety (Sponsor: State University Law School
Hon. William Barr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Hon. Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Prof. Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School
Prof. Nadine Strossen, ACLU President and New York Law School
Hon. Lois Haight, Superior Court of California (Moderator)
11:15 a.m.-Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. State Department
6:00 p.m. - Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture, D.A.R. Constitution Hall, 18th & D Streets, N.W.
Kenneth Starr, Kirkland & Ellis and former U.S. Solicitor General
Barbara Comstock, Director of Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice (Introduction)
Barbara K. Olson Memorial Reception
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Lisa Budzynski, 202-822-8138
WEB ADDRESS: fed-soc.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds its conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12 noon -- Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-NE
2:15 p.m. - The Relevance of Regimes
Lawrence Scheinman- Monterey Institute of International Studies
Jayantha Dhanapala- United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs
John Wolf- U.S. Department of State
Brad Roberts- Institute for Defense Analysis
3 p.m. - Avoiding Armageddon
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: Ronald Reagan International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY holds the Washington Program of the Helsinki Women Business Leaders Summit.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. Plenary Session - Welcome and introduction:
Ms. Daria Zibluk, MBA, 2004, The McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University
President John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University
Her Excellency, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, U.S.
Ambassador to Finland
Charlotte Beers, Under Secretary for
Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State
10:30 a.m. - Panel Discussion: "Moving Forward: Global Growth Strategies"
Dr. Elaine Romanelli, Associate Professor of Management,
The McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Dr. Illka Ronkainen, Associate Professor, The McDonough
School of Business, Georgetown University
Ms. Debra Filtzer, Springboard Enterprises
12:00 noon Lunch and Closing Ceremony
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL PTA AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION hold Partners for Student Success 2002 National Summit on Parent Involvement in Teacher Education.
WHO: The speakers are:
Beth Ann Bryan, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Education
Dr. Ben Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Ann Compton, ABC News White House Correspondent
Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, George Washington University President and Professor of Public Administration
Reg Weaver, President, National Education Association
Sen. Jack Reed - D-RI
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: Marvin Center Building, 800 21st Street, NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: Debbie Dabrowski, National PTA, 1-202-289-6790 x212 or Karen McMullen, AACTE, 1- 202-293-2450
WEB ADDRESS: pta.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE holds its annual conference on Governance.
AGENDA: Highlight:
5 p.m. - Richard Harwood, president of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, will discuss the country's missed opportunity to tap into civic life after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, as evidenced by political conduct during the recent mid-term elections. Harwood will issue a call for a new patriotism that will re-engage citizens and invigorate political leaders.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tel- 301-656-3669
TIME: 8:15 a.m.
EVENT: ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES holds a program presenting its new report, Risk and Reward: U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation on Food Safety and the Environment. The report examines current transatlantic tensions arising out of several areas of domestic regulation on issues surrounding food safety and environmental protection, with particular consideration given to the difference in approaches to managing risk
WHO: The speakers are:
Chairmen of the Atlantic Council's working group David L. Aaron
C. Boyden Gray, Citizens for a Sound Economy
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: The Conference Room , 910 17th Street, N.W., 11th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-778-4990
WEB ADDRESS:acus.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: 3D TECHNOLOGIES presents a program to discuss the North American Wireless Market.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Hank Deardon, 202-364-4380
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Tough Neighborhood: Afghanistan and its Neighbors.
WHO: The speakers are:
Feroz Khan, Visiting Fellow, Monterey Institute of International Studies and former Wilson Center Fellow
Ahmed Rashid, Correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Conference to discuss Post-Saddam Iraq "Demobilizing, Reforming, and Rebuilding the Iraqi Armed Forces & Dismantling and Transforming Iraq's Military Industries."
WHO: The speakers are:
General Tawfik Yassiri, Iraqi National Coalition
General Saadoun a-Dulaimi
Brigadier General Muhammad Baraa Najib al Rubayi
General Najeeb Salhi, Free Officers Movement
General Wafiq Samarrai
General Fawzi al Shamari, Iraqi officers movement
Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program on "The Safety of America's Blood Supply." This program will examine the status and current trends in the blood supply and what is being done to improve the response of the blood community to the next disaster.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jerome Hauer, Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Dr. Celso Bianco, America's Blood Centers
Alan Slobodin, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: LAW FIRM OF LISONI & LISONI holds a news conference to discuss its national class action lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. and Bridgestone Corporation, Inc. Although the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) closed its Firestone Steeltex tire investigation on April 9, 2002. During the past three months, the law firm has continued its own nationwide investigation and will bring a truckload of documentation to Washington, D.C. showing the NHTSA that the Firestone Steeltex R4S, R4SII and A/T tire series has a serious safety-related defect.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 818-346-1750
WEB ADDRESS: firestonesteeltexclassaction.com
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program on "The Safety of America's Blood Supply." This program will examine the status and current trends in the blood supply and what is being done to improve the response of the blood community to the next disaster.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jerome Hauer, Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Dr. Celso Bianco, America's Blood Centers
Alan Slobodin, House Committee on Energy and Commerce
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a preview of the NATO summit.
WHO: The speakers are:
Simon Serfaty, director of the CSIS Europe Program
Jay Farrar, CSIS vice president, CSIS
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Friday Forum on "FDA Reform: Opportunities for a New Commissioner and a New Congress" featuring Scott Gottlieb, MD, AEI. A new Commissioner is taking charge of a Food and Drug Administration that has been accused of being gun-shy on the approval of new drugs. What proposals for reform are likely to be considered over the next year and how can the political leadership develop mechanisms for getting safe drugs to the market faster?
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on Urban Development entitled DEVELOPING PROSPERITY: Using Metropolitan Economic Strategy to Foster Growth in Developing Nations
with Marc A. Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Prague Institute for Global Urban Development
Author, State Policy Approaches to Promote Metropolitan Economic Strategy.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a discussion and book signing by Ghada Karmi. Ghada Karmi has held a number of research appointments on Middle Eastern politics and culture at Durham University and Leeds University in Britain. She was also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In her book In Search of Fatima she gives a first-hand account of displacement and exile told from the perspective of a Palestinian woman. The author's family goes into exile from Jerusalem to London where she attempts to assimilate into a new society.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS:palestinecenter.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Congress and Civil Liberties During War.
WHO: The speakers are:
Philip B. Heyman, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General
Margaret Peterlin, Counsel to House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey
Neal Devins, Professor of Law, the College of William and Mary
Joan Biskupic, Legal Correspondent, USA Today
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Armandinho and the Tucan Trio uniting Brazilian legend and virtuoso mandolin player Armandinho Macedo with a Brazilian-Israeli group known for their jazzy rhythms spiced with Mediterranean flair.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt" with Edward Bleiberg, curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents a panel discussion of law professor Herman Schwartz's, book The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jamin Raskin, American University
Chai Feldblum and William Taylor, Georgetown University
John MacKenzie and Norman Redlich, New York University
Andrew Imparato, American Association for People with Disabilities
DATE: November 15, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
