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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Institute of Medicine holds a meeting to discuss Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements,
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m.- Opportunity to provide information on melatonin safety and the melatonin draft prototype monograph.
10:30 a.m.-Opportunity to provide information on chromium picolinate safety and chromium picolinate draft prototype monograph.
1 p.m.- Opportunity to provide additional information on glucosamine safety and the glucosamine draft prototype monograph.
3 p.m.- Opportunity to provide information on saw palmetto safety and the saw palmetto draft prototype monograph.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL will convene an international forum on the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Welcome by Commission Chair Felice D. Gaer, GWU Law School Dean Michael K.
Young, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford
, and Ishaq Shahryar, Afghan Ambassador to the United States, GWU Media Center, 805 21st Street, NW, set of CNN's Crossfire
9:30 a.m. - Keynote and Featured Speakers
Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad (keynote), Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan,
Special Presidential Envoy and Ambassador at Large for Free Iraqis, Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southwest Asia and Islamic Strategy Initiatives, National Security Council
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-NE, Sponsor of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, Foreign Relations Committee
Andrew Natsios, Administrator, US Agency for International Development
10:45 a.m. - Panel One: The Human Rights Challenge in Transitional Afghanistan
Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Religious Studies, University of
Virginia; Advisory Board Member, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Robert Templer, South Asia Program Director, International Crisis Group
Dr. Frank Vogel, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
1:30 p.m. - Judge John R. Tunheim, U.S. Dist. Ct. (D.Minn.)
Mavis Leno, Chair, Feminist Majority's Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls
2 p.m. - Implementing Human Rights Protections
Ian Martin, Vice President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Gay McDougall, Executive Director, International Human Rights Law Group
Neamat Nojumi, former USAID consultant in Kabul
Sima Wali, President, Refugee Women in Development
3:45 p.m. - The U.S. Role in Promoting Human Rights in Afghanistan
Lorne Craner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Amb. Wendy Chamberlin, USAID Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East
Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, the Elliott School, George Washington University, and former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs (1997-2001)
Marin Strmecki, Vice President and Director of Programs, Smith Richardson Foundation
Amb. Peter Tomsen, Diplomatic Associate, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and former Special U.S. Envoy to the Afghan Resistance
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Jacob Burns Moot Courtroom, 2000 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-523-3240, ext. 26
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS LECTURE SERIES presents:
Finally: A Vaccine for Typhoid Fever With Implications for Other Enteric Pathogens," featuring Dr. Shouson Szu, Research Chemist, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, NICHD
"Genotype Phenotype Comparisons in Parkinson's Disease Across Ethnic Groups," with Dr. Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, Investigator, Neurogenetics, NINDS.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301- 594-8491
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
TIME: 1:45 p.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing with John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation discussing "Global Nonproliferation Challenges."
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS: fpc.gov
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing entitled "The State of the Union: An Evaluation."
WHO: The speakers are:
Michael Franc, Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS:fpc.gov
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES presents Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Older Women Age 65-79 Years: An Understudied Age Group," with Dr. Janet R. Daling, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Full Member Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.
DATE: January 29, 2003
LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301- 594-8491
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate program presents best-selling author Ross King re-creating the tapestry of Michelangelo's day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding in early 16th-century Rome. While dealing with numerous personal problems, he managed to paint Biblical scenes so beautiful that when unveiled in 1512 onlookers were absolutely stunned.
DATE: January 28, 2003
LOCATION: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.gov
