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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2003
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program to discuss "After Reform: Iran's Political Alternatives."
DATE: February 18, 2003
LOCATION: 5th floor conference room One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for "Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives."
WHO: The speakers are:
David Malone, co-editor and President, International Peace Academy
Shepard Forman, Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University Commentator
Philip Gordon, Director, Center on the United States and France, and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
DATE: February 18, 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: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a performance and discussion on Culture/Kultura: Russian Influences on American Performing Arts: Music.
WHO: Performers:
David Gresham, New York, NY (Bass Clarinet)
Medea Namoradze, Associate Professor, Shenandoah Conservatory, Shenandoah University (Soprano)
Vera Stern, faculty, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University (Piano)
Igor Yuzefovich, student, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University (Violin)
Victor Yuzefovich, musicologist, and former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Victor Danchenko, faculty, The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA; faculty, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University; Leonid Hrabovsky, composer, New York, NY
Anne Swartz, Professor of Music, Baruch College, City University of New York, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: February 18, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-691-4100
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents a program with Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and French Ambassador to the United States Jean-David Levitte discussing the current state of transatlantic relations.
DATE: February 18, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Louis Sell, Adjunct Professor, University of Maine at Farmington discussing Whither Kosovo: The Continuing Destruction of Yugoslavia.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with John Rea, Chief Economist, Investment Company Institute, discussing "What's in Store for Mutual Funds in 2003?"
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Pakistan: The Way Ahead?" with Husain Haqqani, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading Pakistani columnist and former Ambassador.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Room 204,1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Animal Biotechnology: Defining and Addressing Scientific Concerns with Eric Hallerman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Mike Taylor, Resources for the Future.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Social Entrepreneurship as a Vehicle for Economic Development" with Anil Chitraker, scholar-in-residence at Ashoka.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Room 806 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "The Future of Fuel-Cell Technologies" with Ed Wall, FreedomCAR Partnership coordinator at the Department of Energy's Office of Transportation Technology, will discuss the $1.2 billion "Freedom Fuel" initiative to develop the technology needed for commercially viable hydrogen-powered fuel cells as proposed in the president's State of the Union address.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
Thursday, February 20, 2003
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Business to Government (B2G) Series holds a program on Selling to the New GSA.
WHO: The speakers are:
Kevin Adams, Vice President, CDW Government, Inc.
Neal Fox, Assistant Commissioner, GSA Office of Acquisition
Charles A. Self, Deputy Commissioner, GSA Federal Technology Service
Rick Slifer, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development, SAIC
DATE: February 20, 2003
LOCATION: The Ritz-Carlton, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY holds a news conference to launch its Teen Suicide Prevention Initiative.
DATE: February 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Rob Caruano or Adina Ellis, 212-260-3401
WEB ADDRESS:
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AAA FOUNDATION presents Dangerous Road Users Studies news conference.
DATE: February 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Kate Zimmerman, 202-942-2069
WEB ADDRESS: aaa.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Ambassador Lalit Mansingh Ambassador of India to the United States.
DATE: February 20, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
Friday February 21, 2003
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Business and Public Policy at holds a telecom forum "Integration, Investment and Innovation: Future Directions for the Telecommunications Industry."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:05 a.m. - Overview: The Telecommunications Industry Today
John Mayo, Dean, McDonough School of Business
9:30 a.m. - Business Keynote: Doing Business In The Evolving Telecommunications Industry: Opportunity And Challenges
David McCourt, CEO RCN
10:15 a.m. - State Policy Keynote:
The Evolution Of Telecommunications Policy
Rebecca Klein, Chair Texas Public Utilities Commission
10:45 a.m. - Integration: Business, Consumer And State Policy Implications
Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Kevin Crull, VP, AT&T Consumer Markets
Paul Vassington Chair, Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy
Simon Wilkie, Chief Economist, FCC
Kathy Brown Verizon (invited)
Bruce Phillips Senior Fellow, NFIB
James Bradford Ramsey, General Counsel NARUC
Larry Spiwack, Invited
12 noon - Federal policy Keynote - Commissioner Kevin Martin
1:15 p.m. - Innovation And Investment: Feast Or Famine?
DATE: February 21, 2003
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 3rd Floor, Healy Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Seminar Series in Economic Policy Has Global Income Inequality Been Rising? Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University provides evidence, however, that poverty rates and global income inequality have actually declined over the past couple of decades. Indeed, the decline in global income inequality has been driven primarily by relatively high rates of growth of income for some poorer countries, particularly China.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric M. Engen, AEI
Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Columbia University
Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI
Catherine Mann, Institute for International Economics
DATE: February 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "A Crisis in an Emerging Market: The Venezuelan Crisis from a Wall Street Perspective."
WHO: The speakers are:
Luisa Palacios, head economist for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation in New York
Maria Beatriz Orlando, research associate at the Institute for International Economics' Center for Global Development
DATE: February 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a luncheon briefing entitled "MEDICARE 101: Prepare Yourself for the Debate." Now is a good time to refresh your understanding about the fundamentals of Medicare -- how it's structured, how it's funded, and how it operates,
WHO: The speakers are:
Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation
Tricia Neuman, director of the Medicare Policy Project at the Foundation
Julian Pettengill, a research director for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
DATE: February 21, 2003
LOCATION: Room 106, Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202/789-2300
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Ruler of the Rulers: Art and Architecture in the Time of Amunhotep III" with Matthias Seidel, curator at the Walters Art Museum.
DATE: February 21, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
