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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH holds a news conference to release global open letter
opposing pre-emptive military action by the U.S. against Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the
Pentagon Papers (by telephone)
Dr. Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security
Studies at Hampshire College (by telephone)
Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Arjun Makhijani, 301-270-5500 or Bob Schaeffer, 941-395-6773
WEB ADDRESS: ieer.org
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program entitled Indians and Cowboys Strategic Implications of the Bush Doctrine in South Asia
WHO: The speakers are:
Lloyd Richardson, McGuireWoods LLP
Ashok Kapur, Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada
Thomas Donnelly, AEI
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
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: 12:30 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
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM holds a program on How Well Are American Immigration Policies Matching Needs And Realities?
WHO: The speakers are:
Frank Sharry, National Immigration Forum, Moderator
Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland School of Law and Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security
Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies
Jeanne Butterfield, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Cecilia Muñoz, National Council of La Raza
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-544-0004, x14
WEB ADDRESS: immigrationforum.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Members of The Washington Opera Young Artist Program of the Americas performing semi-staged scenes from American operas.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Professional Affairs Committee holds a writing workshop with Gene Patterson wrote a daily column for the Atlanta Constitution, Roy Peter Clark and Historian Raymond Arsenault, discussing their book "The Changing South of Gene Patterson."
DATE: February 19, 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 Lillian Faderman's whose reputation as one of the leading historians of lesbian life was established with the 1981 publication of "Surpassing the Love of Men." In her new book, Naked In The Promised Land, she moves from cultural history to memoir. This is the story of a woman discovering her sexuality and, against the odds, carving out a successful life.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents 2003 Robert P. Maxon Lecture featuring Vernon L. Smith, the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science winner and professor of economics and law at George Mason University, discussing markets, globalization and prosperity.
DATE: February 19, 2003
LOCATION: Marvin Center, 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Robert Moll, 202-994-2492 or 202-905-863
WEB ADDRESS: gwu.edu
