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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE New Atlantic Initiative Event presents Fighting Terror and Winning featuring David Trimble, first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, who will discuss Northern Ireland's experience with terrorism and what it can teach the world about fighting terror and winning.
DATE: November 19, 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 program entitled "Beyond the NATO and EU Summits: New Heights or New Lows?" A panel of U.S. and European experts will discuss this topic and also celebrate the release two new books by Esther Brimmer, deputy director and director of research at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, and Stanley Sloan, president of VIC-Vermont and founding director of the Atlantic Community Initiative.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcome
9:15 a.m. - NATO's Prague Summit and Beyond:
What's the Future of the Alliance?
Dr. Alfred van Staden, rector, The Netherlands Institute of International Affairs
Dr. Daniel Hamilton, chard von Weizsaecker Professor and
Director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations
10:45 a.m. - Still in the Game? The EU and International
Security Presentation of Findings from a New Book:
The EU's Search for a Strategic Role: ESDP, and Its Implications for
Transatlantic Relations
Dr. Esther Brimmer, Deputy Director and Director of Research
SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations
Col. Ralph D. Thiele
Commander of the Bundeswehr Center for Analyses and Studies
12 noon - A New Deal in Transatlantic Relations?
Presentation of findings from his new book
NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community:
The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered
Dr. Stanley Sloan,
President of VIC Vermont
Founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Head of the United Nations Development Program, Mark Malloch Brown and the UN Resident Coordinators for Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uganda, announcing an appeal for a range of UN Programs in these three countries.
DATE: November 19, 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: INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH holds a news conference to release its The 2002 Status of Women in the States which shows that women have not achieved equality with men in any state in the nation. The report chronicles huge disparities between the 50 states and the District of Columbia, ranking the top and bottom states in five areas: political participation, employment and earnings, social and economic autonomy, reproductive rights, and health and well-being.
WHO: The speakers are:
Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., IWPR President and CEO
Amy Caiazza, Ph.D., IWPR Study Director, Editor
Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President
Professor Linda Williams, Associate Professor Government & Politics, University of Maryland
Martha Burk, Ph.D., President, National Council of Women's Organizations
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-5100
WEB ADDRESS: iwpr.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGENANCY holds a news conference to discuss Teen Pregnancy: Not Just Another Single Issue.
WHO: The speakers are:
Judy Woodruff, CNN Prime Anchor and Senior Correspondent and
National Campaign Board Member
Don Beyer, Jr., Owner, Don Beyer Volvo and Former Lt. Governor of Virginia
Stephen Goldsmith, Faculty Director, Innovations in American Government, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Former Mayor of Indianapolis and
Prosecutor for Marion County
Ron Haskins, Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution
Brenda Rhodes Miller, Director, DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Kristin Moore, President and Senior Scholar, Child Trends, Inc.
Isabel Sawhill, President, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-478-8510
WEB ADDRESS: teenpregnancy.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Director's Forum featuring George Mitchell former U.S. Senator from Maine.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL HISPANIC PRESS FOUNDATION holds a news conference to launch a Hispanic Scholarship Directory Web site.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 14th and F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7250
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: WOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH holds a news conference to discuss the latest health information on levels of phthalates in cosmetics.
WHO: The speakers are:
Tee Guidotti, MD, Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational
Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington
University
Charlotte Brody, RN, Executive Director, Health Care Without Harm
Bryony Schwan, Founder, National Campaigns Director, Women's Voices for the
Earth
Jane Houlihan, Vice President for Research, Environmental Working Group
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: Monarch Hotel, 2401 M Street NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-5200
WEB ADDRESS: wildrockies.org
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES will hold a conference call briefing to discuss the findings of a new study on the causes of the budget crises now affecting a majority of state governments and the most equitable and sustainable remedies for them.
WHO: The speakers are:
Iris Lav, Deputy Director
Nick Johnson, Director, State Fiscal Project
DATE: November 19, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS:cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds a lecture entitled Prosperity:The Coming 20-Year Boom And It Means to You.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bob Davis, Wall Street Journal
David Wessel, Wall Street Journal
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-454-1349
WEB ADDRESS: iie.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: COMMITTEE OF CHIEF RISK OFFICERS holds a news conference releasing its best practices for merchant energy companies report.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 2-2=557-0853
WEB ADDRESS: ccro.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Executive Director and CEO, AARP William D. Novelli.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program-presenting Chairman of the Board of Governors Alan Greenspan.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: Ritz Carlton, 1150 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-439-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a luncheon briefing on "Israeli Settlements and the Two-State Solution."
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS:palestinecenter.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB holds a discussion on Jane Austen featuring syndicated columnist Mary McGrory and Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent for National Public Radio.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwoman.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Nanotechnology and the Environment.
WHO: The speakers are:
Vicki Colvin, Ph.D. Director, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology Rice University
Julia A. Moore Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Japan, Game Over: Is Bank Restructuring a Lost Cause? with Robert Madsen, Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A History in Documents 1958-1960.
WHO: The speakers are:
Mark Falcoff, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
William LeoGrande, Acting Dean, School of Public Affairs, American University
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: The Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a news conference to release a study by researchers at McMaster University and the University at Buffalo, to be published Nov. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study shows an increased death rate at private for-profit dialysis centers as opposed to private not-for-profit dialysis centers.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Gordon Guyatt, McMaster University
Dr. Holger Schunemann, assistant professor of medicine and social and preventive medicine, University at Buffalo
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: Public Citizen, 1600 20th St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Shannon Little, 202-588-7742 or Booth Gunter, 202-588-7703
WEB ADDRESS: citizen.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER program on Intellectual Property Law: A New Perspective featuring Judge Richard A. Posner, University of Chicago Law School and United States Court of Appeals. He will argue that public choice--wherein individuals, interest groups, and politicians pursue their own self interests when making decisions--is helpful in explaining the expansion of intellectual property rights.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Politics and Economics in Today's Kyrgyzstan" with Djoomart Otorbayev, deputy prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Europe: Model Global Power?" With David Calleo, director of the SAIS European Studies Program.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents writers night with Eve Goldberg and Jonathan Pointer. Goldberg sings songs that evoke bluegrass, swing, old-time, and gospel influences. Pointer brings the grit and passion of his singing together with heart-felt lyrics that make him an "American folk hero."
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-467-4600
WEB ADDRESS: kennedycenter.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Middle East Forum holds a program presenting "Arab Human Development Report 2002: Creating Opportunities For Future Generations."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rima Khalaf Hundaidi, Assitant Secretary General and regional director, United Nations Development Programme
Elizabeth Cheney, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs U.S. Department of State
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: Ritz Carlton, 1150 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-439-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTEION holds its Capital Science Lecture series presenting Marilyn Fogel, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington discussing Energy Flow in Tropical Mangroves.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 1530 P Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-6988
WEB ADDRESS: carnegieinstitution.org
TIME: 8:15 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY presents Esther Borja, the first lady of the Cuban "cancion." Esther Borja's first presentation will focus on the history of Cuban music, with emphasis on the Cuban cancion, the musical genre which differs considerably in construction and style from that embodied in the salsa of Celia Cruz, the guaguanco of Celeste Mendoza, or the Afro-Cuban rhythms of Irakere.
DATE: November 19, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
