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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ADVAMED holds a program on Innovation for Preparedness: The Public-Private Partnership Conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Jerome Hauer, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Health Preparedness, Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency Preparedness Healthcare Needs: Identifying Research and Technology Funding
Franklin R. Cockerill, III, M.D., Professor and Chair, Microbiology, Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School
9:45 a.m. -- National Institutes of Health
Maria Giovanni, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Microbial Genomics and Advanced Technologies, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stephen Morse, Ph.D., Associate Director for Science, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program
11:10 a.m. - Food and Drug Administration
Susan Alpert, M.D. , Vice President for Regulatory Sciences
C.R. Bard, Inc.
Medical Advisor - AdvaMed's Medical Technology Preparedness Council
Andrea Meyerhoff, M.D. , Director, Office of Counter terrorism
David Feigal, M.D., Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Jesse Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Deploying New Technologies to Strengthen Homeland Security: The Role of DOD and DOE
Kyle Webster, Ph.D., Director, Technology Acceptance, BD Research Bioscience
Department of Defense
William Winkenwerder, Jr., M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Department of Energy, Elizabeth George, Ph.D. (Invited)
Director of Chemical, Biological Non-Proliferation
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute on Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
David Norwood, Ph.D., Chief, Systems Development Branch, Diagnostic Systems Division
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-434-7243
WEB ADDRESS: advamed.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION holds Climate Action Plan Briefing.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tom Johnson 202-463-2621
WEB ADDRESS: nma.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE holds a discussing Humanitarian Conditions in Afghanistan
AGENDA: The International Committee of the Red Cross continues to maintain its largest delegation anywhere in the world to help Afghanistan meet basic humanitarian needs, particularly medical and food requirements.
WHO: The speakers are:
Reto Meister, Delegate General for Asia for the International Committee of the Red Cross
Kathleen Newland, Co-Director of the Migration Policy Institute
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Migration Policy Institute Conference Room, 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Ana Claros, 202-266-1940
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Military Options for Bringing Peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo" with Doug Brooks, president of International Peace Operations Association, and Paul Slaughter, CEO of TASK International.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES holds a panel discussion on Civil Liberties in the Information Age
WHO: The speakers are:
Michael S. Swetnam, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Amitai Etzioni, author of The Limits of Privacy, is a professor at The George Washington University
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA
Eleanor Hill, a partner in the Washington law firm of King & Spalding,
Marc Rotenberg is the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
Jamie Gorelick is the Vice Chair of Fannie Mae
Daniel Gallington, Senior Fellow, The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Janelle Gatchalian, 703-525-0770
WEB ADDRESS: PotomacInstitute.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL holds a Memorial Service for the Crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW, Washington, D.C
CONTACT: 202-537-6200
WEB ADDRESS: catherdral.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES holds a news conference to release Local Governments report on Interoperability.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tom Goodman, 202-942-4222
WEB ADDRESS: naco.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: - INTERNET SECURITY ALLIANCE holds a news conference to discuss the release of new information security consumer guidelines.
WHO: The speakers are:
Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Dave McCurdy, Executive Director, Internet Security Alliance
Susan Grant, Vice President of Public Policy, National Consumers League
Mark MacCarthy, Senior Vice President Public Policy Visa U.S.A.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Cathy MacFarlane, 202-326-3657
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Andrew Lyon, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax Analysis), U.S. Department of the Treasury, discussing Tax Policy and the Fiscal 2004 Budget.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER holds a program on War on the Horizon
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher Hitchens is the I. F. Stone Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley, Professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York City
William Galston is the Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and the Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
George Weigel holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1015 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Laura Fabrycky, 202-682-1200, ext 213
WEB ADDRESS: eppc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES holds a news conference to discuss Affirmative Action in Government Hiring. Several issues are raised in light of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's decision to hear Worth v. Martinez, the discrimination in government employment class action case against the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
AGENDA: Many question the prevalence of racial preference policies throughout the federal bureaucracy, though an Office of Personnel Management report shows that minorities are over represented, compared to the relevant civilian labor force, in every federal department and independent agency.
WHO: The speakers are:
Roger Clegg, General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity
Curt Levey, Center for Individual Rights
Shirley Wilcher, Executive Director, Americans for A Fair Chance
Stuart Taylor, National Journal (Moderator)
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-822-8138
WEB ADDRESS: fed-soc.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on The Perfect Storm: Why the Next Six Weeks Will Dictate America's Economic Health for Years to Come with DAVID HALE, Founder, Hale Advisors LLC.
DATE: February 6, 2003
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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Warren Zimmerman, a Foreign Service Officer over three decades and our last Ambassador to Yugoslavia in the Clinton Administration, comes to us to talk about his latest book, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a luncheon briefing with Ramzy Baroud, Editor of "Searching Jenin, Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002", and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, discussing his book and the revelations of Israeli war crimes that it contains.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a forum, "The United State and Iraq: What Are the Stakes? What Are the Options?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Eliot Cohen, professor and director of the SAIS Strategic Studies
Program
Scott Barrett, director of the SAIS Energy, Environment, Science and Technology Program and professor of environmental economics and international political economy
Francis Fukuyama, SAIS dean of faculty Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Showdown with Iraq program entitled "Inauguration of Weekly Brookings Iraq Briefing."
WHO: The speakers are:
Amatzia Baram, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings
David Kay, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; Former UN Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector in Iraq
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
Michael E. O'hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
Kenneth M. Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON POST COMPANY holds a roundtable discussion entitled Defining the Future of U.S. -- Korean Relations.
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Lugar, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
John Rockefeller IV, Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Finance and Intelligence
Jay Kun Woo, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to President-elect Roh Mooh-Hyun and member of his Special Envoy to the U.S. and the Korean National Assembly
Dr. Hongkoo Lee, Chairman of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs and former Prime Minister and Ambassador to the United States
Dr. Kyung-Won Kim, President of the Institute of Social Sciences and Seoul Forum
Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Principal, The Albright Group, Former Counselor of the State Department, and North Korea Policy Coordinator
Ambassador Donald Gregg, President of The Korea Society and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Dr. Sungjoo Han, President of Korea University and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor
Donald Oberdorfer, former Washington Post correspondent and author of The Two Koreas
Young-Hie Kim, Joong Ang Ilbo Editor-at-Large
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Post Company Board Room, 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-6635
WEB ADDRESS: washingtonpost.com
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch "Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems & Shambaugh."
WHO: The speakers are:
David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs/Director of the China Policy Program at The George Washington University and current Woodrow Wilson Center fellow
Admiral Dennis Blair, Senior Fellow, Institute for Defense Analyses
Ellis Joffe, Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Cooperation and Integration in Southeastern Europe."
WHO: The speakers are:
Vuk Draskovic, President, Serbian Renewal Movement and noted journalist, Serbia
Davor Glavas, journalist, IREX Pro-media Program, Croatia
Vladimir Bozovic, Attorney, Member, Republic Coordinating Center for Kosovo, Montenegro
Fuad Turalic, Professor, former Cabinet Member, Republika Srpska government, Bosnia-Herzegovina
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Turmoil in Turkmenistan" featuring Filip Noubel, senior analyst for International Crisis Group in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features The Other Side of Broadway, a project devoted to the performance and preservation of classical music by established and emerging theatre composers, presents its second art song cabaret Songs of the Poets.
DATE: February 6, 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 "Protecting The Homeland And Preserving Civil Liberties."
WHO: The speakers are:
James S. Gilmore, III, Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Adam Garfinkle, Editor, The National Interest
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9537
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB presents the 2003 William E. Colby Military Writers Symposium themed Journalists At War
WHO: The speakers are:
Rick Atkinson,
Joseph Galloway
Sean Naylor
Lewis Sorley
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Jared Diamond discussing Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In the course of his argument, Mr. Diamond effectively demolishes any grounds for believing in the superiority of any race or culture, but demonstrates that happy accidents of geography, available animal life capable of domestication, and, thus resistance to parasites, have had far more impact on human history than was previously admitted,
DATE: February 6, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
