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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Scientific Policy Publications & National Security to examine whether life sciences publication policies and practices could lead to the inadvertent disclosure of "sensitive" technical information to potential terrorists
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 A.M. -- Welcoming Remarks
Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences
John Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS
Ronald Atlas, President, American Society for Microbiology
9:15 A.M. -- Scientific Openness and National Security--Past as Prologue?
Mitchel Wallerstein, John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Sheila Widnall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Rindskopf-Parker, McGeorge School of Law
Moderator: John Hamre
11:15 A.M. -- Knowledge Production in the Life Sciences: Assessing the Threat
David Franz, Southern Research Institute
Stephen Morse, Columbia University
Claire Fraser, Institute for Genomic Research
George Poste, Health Technology Networks
Moderator: Bruce Alberts
2 P.M. -- "Sensitive" Information in the Life Sciences--Review of Four Case Studies
Ariella Rosengard, University of Pennsylvania
Eckard Wimmer, State University of New York
James Cook, Washington State University
William Colglazier, National Academy of Sciences
Parney Albright, Office of Homeland Security
Nick Cozzarelli, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Don Kennedy, Science
Moderator: Nick Cozzarelli
Thomas Shenk, President-elect, American Society of Microbiology
4:30 P.M. -- Current Policies and Proposals
John Marburger, White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy
Gerald Epstein, Institute for Defense Analysis
Sam Kaplan, Publications Board, American Society for Microbiology
Moderator: Ron Atlas
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: National Association of Drug Court Professionals'4th Annual Juvenile and Family Drug Court Training Conference
AGENDA: Highlight:
John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
DATE:
LOCATION: MARRIOTT - WARDMAN PARK HOTEL, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-491-6985
WEB ADDRESS: nadcp.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Capital Formation Committee holds program to review the past extraordinary year in venture capital and discuss the future
WHO: The speakers are:
Speakers: Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association
Julia Spicer, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Venture Association
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Ernst & Young Building, 8484 Westpark Drive, Ninth Floor, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT TOM DONOHUE holds a Press Breakfast releasing its 2003 Agenda And the State of American Business.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SENATORS DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CA, AND LINCOLN CHAFEE, R-RI, hold a news conference to announce legislation to freeze the top income rate at its current level until there is a return to budget surpluses.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Senate Radio-TV Gallery
CONTACT: Howard Gantman, 202-224-9629
WEB ADDRESS: sen.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: THRIFT SHOP CHARTIES holds a 48TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON ANTIQUES SHOW.
AGENDA: Highlight:
Lecture Luncheon featuring Dr. Geza von Habsburg, scholar, specialist in Russian art will help inaugurate the 300th anniversary year of St. Petersburg and showcase the theme of the Show's catalogue and loan exhibit with a slide presentation on "Treasures of the Tsars: Russian Gold Boxes from Peter the Great to Nicholas II."
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-965-0640.
WEB ADDRESS: washingtonantiques.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS' hosts a news conference with the visiting trade and economics ministers of five Central American countries, who are in Washington to kick off new trade negotiations with the United States.
WHO: The speakers are:
Alberto Trejos, Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
Miquel Ernesto Lacayo, Minister of the Economy, El Salvador
Patricia RamÃrez Ceberg, Minister of the Economy, Guatemala
Norman Garcia, Secretary of Industry and Trade, Honduras
Mario Arana Sevilla, Minister of Industry and Trade, Nicaragua
Tim Richards, Chairman, NAM's Americas Working Group and Sr. Manager, International Trade & Investment, the General Electric Co.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: National Association of Manufacturers, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Scot Montrey, 202-637-3099
WEB ADDRESS: nam.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring Nicholas Burns, U.S. permanent representative to the Council of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY BMW Center for German and European Studies Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Christopher Hill, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Poland discussing "Poland in the New Europe."
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program entitled David Scheffman, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, "Making Economics and Economists Relevant in a Sea of Lawyers.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WORLD WATCH INSTITUET holds a news conference releasing its book State of the World 2003. AGENDA: According to the Worldwatch Institute's annual report State of the World 2003, scaling up recent successes in curbing infectious disease, increasing the income of the poor, and advancing the use of renewable energy, among others, would soon put the world's economy on a more sustainable path.
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher Flavin, President
Gary Gardner, Director of Research
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC
CONTACT: Susan Finkelpearl, 202.452.1992 x517
WEB ADDRESS: worldwatch.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER holds a luncheon program featuring Tashbih Sayyed, who is presently editor of Pakistan Today. Mr. Sayyed has been at the forefront of the fight against Islamist extremism among Muslims at home and abroad
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1015 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-682-1200
WEB ADDRESS: eppc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on A New and Improved Health Policy Agenda for 2003
WHO: The speakers are:
Tom Miller, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Jeff Lemieux, Senior Economist, Progressive Policy Institute.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: B-339 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Robin Gerber, the author of a new book on Eleanor Roosevelt, speaks about Eleanor's remarkable ability to confront and successfully overcome all kinds of hurdles in life.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE COMMITTEE hold a news conference to rebut assertions by the American Medical Association (AMA) and striking doctors that temporary spikes in malpractice insurance premiums for some specialties are a result of increased litigation and rising jury awards.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joan Claybrook, president, Public Citizen
Arthur Levin, director, Center for Medical Consumers; member of the Institute of Medicine's committee that issued a groundbreaking report on medical errors and patient safety
Sidney Wolfe, M.D., director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group
J. Robert Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 385 Russell Senate Office, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Angela Bradbery, 202-588-7741or Shannon Little, 202-588-7742
WEB ADDRESS: citizen.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION holds a telephone news conference to discuss the eve of the second deadline for certain foreign nationals to register with the INS.
AGENDA: To access the teleconference, call 1-800-363-1104, and use the passcode TURNER
WHO: The speakers are:
Jeanne Butterfield -- American Immigration Lawyers Association
Juliette Kayyem, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, Harvard University
Kareem W. Shora, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Emmanuel -- An immigrant, born in Iran but with German citizenship, will share the compelling story of his recent four-day detention in Los Angeles and will speak of the conditions of his detention and treatment by the INS.
DATE: January 9, 2003
CONTACT: 202-216-2400
WEB ADDRESS: aila.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT holds a reception and discussion of The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture Wars, a new book by Sheldon Hackney about his 1993 appointment and confirmation experience and the lessons to be drawn from it. Sheldon Hackney is a Professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1993-97).
AGENDA: Highlight:
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul Light, Senior Adviser, Brookings Institution Presidential Appointee Initiative, and Director of its Center for Public Service
Dee Dee Myers, former Press Secretary to President Clinton and now President of Dee Dee Myers & Associates, a political analyst and lecturer on politics, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine
Eric Vautour, Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel for President Reagan and now Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
DATE:
LOCATION: 1301 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Greg Vadala , 202-530-3258.
WEB ADDRESS: execelgov.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE presents Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation discussing his reflections on the current and future partnership between the United States and Russia. This unique bilateral relationship encompasses many critical issues, including cooperation in the U.S. war on terrorism, support for potential action in Iraq, energy resources, and nuclear security.
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program entitled Jeeves: A Reading by Jim Bowman and Company. To mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the career of P. G. Wodehouse, one of the wittiest writers and greatest English stylists of the twentieth century, AEI will bring together several Wodehouse devotees who will read from three of the master's short stories and lead a brief inquiry into his creative genius and remarkable skill with words.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jim Bowman
Hugo Gurdon
Meghan Cox Gurdon
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents bohola, an acoustic Irish trio blending the traditional with the urbanized Irish-American experience, featuring Jimmy Keane (accordion), Sean Cleland (fiddle), and Pat Broaders (dordan, vocals).
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on NATO, EU and the Transatlantic Partnership After the Summits.
WHO: The speakers are:
Nicholas Burns, Ambassador, United States Mission to NATO
Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
George Savvaides, Ambassador of Greece to the United States
Robert Hunter, Former United States Ambassador to NATO (1993-98); Senior Analyst, RAND
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: The Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents a panel discussion on, It's A Free Country, which examines the current state of civil liberties (or lack thereof) after September 11
WHO: The speakers are:
Editor Danny Goldberg
Michael Isikoff of Newsweek
Hodan Hassan of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
DATE: January 9, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
