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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY 26, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: HOOVER INSTITUTION holds a program on Our Schools and Our Future.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9:15 a.m. - Rod Paige U.S. Secretary of Education
10 a.m. - Koret Task Force On K-12 Education Release of "Our Schools and Our Future"
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Willard Inter-Continental Hotel Ballroom, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-380-0620
WEB ADDRESS: -hoover.Stanford.edu
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Emerging Business Network holds a program on Seeking Investment Capital? Lessons Learned From the Experts.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ben Martindale, Chief Executive Officer, Plethora Technology
Mark Moore, Principal & Managing Director, The McLean Group
John Sanders, Chairman, DC Technology Council
Caroline Worrall, Chief Operating Officer/CFO, Reactive NanoTechnologies
David Harvey, Director Client Services, Technology Practice, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 2070 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES hold a program on intellectual property rights with
John Barton, Chair, UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Stanford, University.
DATE: February 25, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION AND PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY hold a conference on U.S. Nuclear Policy And Counter proliferation.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Bruce Blair, President, Center for Defense Information
Robert K Musil, Executive Director and CEO, PSR
9:15 a.m. - Counter proliferation And Preemptive War: The Role Of Nuclear
Weapons Under The Bush Administration
Robert K. Musil (Chair), Physicians for Social Responsibility
Paul Gebhard, The Cohen Group
Theresa Hitchens, Center for Defense Information
Martin Butcher, Physicians for Social Responsibility
10:30 a.m. - Nuclear Bunker Busters, Missile Defense, And The Resumption Of Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Bush Administration's Wish-List And Congressional Checks And Balances
Stephen Young (Chair) Union of Concerned Scientists
Madelyn Creedon, Senate Armed Services Committee
Richard Fieldhouse, Senate Armed Services Committee
Michael Levi, Federation of American Scientists
11:45 a.m.- Keynote Speaker:
Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI
1:30 p.m. - Weapons Of Mass Destruction In War: Health And Environmental Consequences
Kimberly Roberts (Chair), Physicians for Social Responsibility
Matt Mckinzie, Natural Resources Defense Council Multimedia presentation on the impact of nuclear weapons use in Iraq.
2:15 p.m. - Counter proliferation And Preemptive War: Consequences For Global Security And International Law
Mark Epstein (Chair), Physicians for Social Responsibility
William A. Galston, University of Maryland
Steve Fetter, University of Maryland
Brian J. Foley, Lawyers Against the War (LAW), Widener University School of Law
3:30 p.m. - U.S. Nonproliferation Programs: Past Effectiveness And Future Viability In Countering Wmd Threat
Jaya Tiwari (Chair), Physicians for Social Responsibility
Laura Holgate, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign
Kenneth Luongo, Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Statesmen's Forum presents Nicaraguan President Enrique BolaƱos will discuss current negotiations over the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), military issues, and overall U.S.-Nicaraguan relations.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Seminar Series in Fiscal and Monetary Policy. This conference will honor the work of Allan H. Meltzer, AEI visiting scholar and professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he holds the title of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Introduction: Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
Panel I: Monetary Policy
Marvin Goodfriend, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Athanasios Orphanides, Federal Reserve Board
Kurt Schiltknecht, BZ Bank and former Director at Swiss Nationalbank
Moderator:
Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University
10 a.m. - Panel II: International Reform
Discussants:
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and AEI
Adam Lerrick, Carnegie Mellon University
Moderator:
Anna Schwartz, City University of New York
11 a.m. - Panel III: Political Economy
Discussants:
Alex Cukierman, Tel-Aviv University
Scott Richard, Morgan Stanley
Moderator:
Thomas Romer, Princeton University
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION holds a news conference releasing the Best and Worst For Wildlife.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-438-6000
WEB ADDRESS: nwf.org
TIME: 10:45 a.m.
EVENT: COMMISSION ON OPPORTUNITY IN ATHLETICS holds a news conference to discuss the submission of its final report with recommendations for sweeping and radical changes to Title IX athletics policies to Education Secretary Roderick Paige.
WHO: The speakers are:
Geena Davis, Award-winning Actress & Women's Sports Foundation Trustee
Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Patty Murray (D-Washington)
Title IX Commissioners: Donna de Varona, Olympic Gold Medalist & Chair of Board of Stewards, Women's Sports Foundation
Julie Foudy, Past President, Women's Sports Foundation & Captain, U.S. National Women's Soccer Team
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 226 Senate Dirksen, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-478-6189
WEB ADDRESS: mrss.com
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds half-day conference to examine the destabilizing impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
AGENDA: Highlight:
11 a.m. - 12:45 P.M. Welcoming Remarks
John Hamre, CSIS President and CEO
Stephen Morrison, Director, CSIS Africa Program and HIV/AIDS Task Force
The Acute Vulnerability of Women & Girls to HIV/AIDS
Janet Fleischman, Chair, CSIS Working Group on HIV/AIDS, Women and Girls
Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS
Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International Center for
Research on Women
Sophia Mukasa-Monico, Senior AIDS Policy Officer, Global Health Council
1 p.m. -- Impact of HIV/AIDS on Food Insecurity & Risk of Famine
Nils Daulaire, President, Global Health Council
James Morris, Executive Director, World Food Programme
Anne Peterson, Assistant Administrator for Global health, USAID
Alex de Waal, Director, Justice Africa
Alan Whiteside, Professor, University of Natal
3 p.m. - New Research on the Political & Security Impacts of HIV/AIDS
Michael Moodie, President, Chemical & Biological Arms Control Institute
Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group
Martin Schonteich, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies
Tsadkan Gebre Tensaye, Former Chief of Staff, Ethiopian military
Stephen Morrison, Director, CSIS Africa Program and HIV/AIDS Task Force
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds a luncheon program on "Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1750 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-9000
WEB ADDRESS: iie.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY holds a news conference to discuss concerns about the Bush Administration's National Security Doctrine -- an unprecedented policy based on unilateralism and preemption.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Guard Memorial Building, One Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-682-1800
WEB ADDRESS: cnponline.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Shaking Off the Shakedown State? Crime and Corruption in Post-Ohrid Macedonia with Robert Hislope, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Union College, and Title VIII JSTS alumnus.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SAVE OUR WILD SALMON holds a news conference to release of 2002 Salmon Plan Report Card.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Babbitt, Former Secretary of the Interior
Justin Gould, Chairman, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and Executive Committee member of the Nez Perce Tribe
Pat Ford, Executive Director, Save Our Wild Salmon
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 206-286-4455
WEB ADDRESS: wildsalmon.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Defusing A Future Crisis: US Policy to Stop Russian Nuclear Proliferation to Iran And Syria."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ariel Cohen, Research Fellow Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Michael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute
Leonard Spector, Executive Director, Washington Office, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, The Monterey Institute
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Kim Clark, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard Business School will discuss "Corporate Scandals: Is the Problem with the Apples or the Barrel?"
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "U.S. Efforts to Prevent Child Labor in Asia, Africa and Latin America" with Eileen Pennington and Sharon Heller, staff members from the U.S. Department of Labor.
DATE: February 26, 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 "From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond: The Evolutionary Paths to Globalization" with Tom Jacob, senior adviser for global affairs at Dupont USA.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Room 534, 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 William Lewis, McKinsey Global Institute discussing The Power of Productivity. Fifty years after World War II and the creation of multilateral institutions to promote global economic development, most of the world's people still live at very low material standards of living.
DATE: February 26, 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 "China's Economic Report: An Analysis of Current Issues and Problems" with Wang Tongsan, director of the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS presents Joe Lieberman discussing "No Easy Peace: Rising to the Challenge of Rebuilding Post-Saddam Iraq."
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND PRESIDENT MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN AND SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, D-MA will hold a media conference call regarding Head Start.
DATE: February 26, 2003
CONTACT: Toby Chaudhuri, 202-662-3609
WEB ADDRESS: senate.gov
TIME: 2:15 p.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Iraq Series Briefing on "The Second UN Resolution: A Battle for Public Opinion"
WHO: The speakers are:
James B. Steinberg, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair,
Brookings
James M. Lindsay, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, and the W. Averell Harriman Chair,
Brookings
Omer Taspinar, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUE OF PEACE Institute Roundtable entitled "Making Economic Sanctions More Effective: Final Report of the Stockholm Process."
WHO: The speakers are:
David McLachlan-Karr, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations
Hans Dahlgren, Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Peter Wallensteen, Uppsala University
Kimberly Elliott (Respondent), Institute for International Economics
Chester Crocker, Chairman, Board of Directors, U.S. Institute of Peace
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-429-3832
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, James T. Morris, will discuss "International Humanitarian AID: A System Overwhelmed."
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA SCHOOL OF LAW, presents 2nd Annual Racial Profiling Forum. Panelists will discuss the incidence of racial profiling in America, and examine the practice from moral, ethical, and legal points of view.
WHO: The speakers are:
Chief Charles Moose, Montgomery County, MD Police Department
Louis Cannon, President, D.C. Fraternal Order of Police
William Mertens, Esq., Asbill, Moffitt & Boss ACLU
Clifford Fishman, Professor of Criminal Law and Evidence, CUA
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Byron Auditorium, 2nd Floor The Catholic University of America School of
Law, 3600 John McCormack Drive NE, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Tom Haederle, 202-319-5438
WEB ADDRESS: law.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA SCHOOL OF LAW presents SEC Commissioner Roel Campos discussing "Attorneys as the Guardians of Corporate Ethics."
AGENDA: In the wake of Enron's bankruptcy last year, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 instructed the Securities and Exchange Commission to develop new rules compelling attorneys to disclose perceived corporate wrongdoing, at least up to the level of Board of Directors.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Byron Auditorium, 2nd Floor The Catholic University of America School of
Law, 3600 John McCormack Drive NE, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Tom Haederle, 202-319-5438
WEB ADDRESS: law.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Ziva's Spanish Dance who blends traditional and modern styles for a unique neo-classical.
DATE: February 26, 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 Book Rap features Dana Priest discussing "The Mission: America's Military in the Twenty-First Century."
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS holds a tribute to media superstar Oprah Winfrey for her unique contribution to American literary life.
AGENDA: The "AAP Honors" is given annually to individuals and institutions outside the publishing industry for significant achievements in promoting American books and authors.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1126 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Amy Gwiazdowski, 202-220-4550
WEB ADDRESS: publishers.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents .C. Boyle's discussing and signing copies of DROP CITY, which is the story of a clash of cultures, as group of hippies move their commune to the wilds of Alaska, upsetting the locals who have similarly dropped out.
DATE: February 26, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
