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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Black Coffee Briefings on the War in Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Norman J. Ornstein, AEI resident scholar, on Congressional perspective
Radek Sikorski, AEI resident fellow and director of the New Atlantic Initiative, on the future of our European allies
Qubad Talabany, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, on Iraq's Kurdish population
Michael Vickers, military analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, on Military preparations
Danielle Pletka: Moderator
DATE: March 11, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION AND TECH CENTRAL STATION hold a lunch discussion on Environmental Policy entitled Skeptical Environmentalism: The Nasty Battle Between Ideology and Empiricism in Environmental Debates
WHO: The speakers are:
Bjorn Lomborg, Director, Danish Institute for Environmental Assessment
Author, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
James K. Glassman, Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, host, TechCentralStation.com
DATE: March 11, 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 Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice, who has been with this organization since 1982, working to advance reproductive health, women's rights, and the strengthening of civil society through research, education, and policy analysis.
DATE: March 11, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Afternoon Newsmaker" news program featuring Three Representatives of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM): Mayor Jamie Lim, Timmins, Ontario (Chairman, FCM Softwood Task Force); Mayor Philippe Barette, Temiscaming, Quebec and Mayor Colin Kinsley, Prince George, British Columbia, discussing "The Canadian Position on the Softwood Lumber Dispute with the U.S."
DATE: March 11, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE hosts Briefing on Asylum and Security in Europe
AGENDA: A year after 9-11, a handful of people were arrested in the UK on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack using the chemical ricin, and were found to have been 'asylum seekers,' precipitating public calls for the closure of the asylum entry route.
WHO: The speakers are:
John Morrison, Head of Campaigns and Community Affairs for The Body Shop International
Joanne van Selm, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (moderator)
DATE: March 11, 2003
LOCATION: 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Ana Claros, 202-266-1940
WEB ADDRESS: migrationpolicy.org
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a news briefing on Iraq: The Day After a report that outlines how the U.S. can work effectively with Iraqis, other governments, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations and makes recommendations on humanitarian assistance, transitional governance, oil, economics and reconstruction, and regional security issues.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas R. Pickering, Co-Chair
James R. Schlesinger, Co-Chair
Eric Schwartz, Director, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
DATE: March 12, 2003
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program entitled Climate and Energy Policy: Linkages, Tradeoffs and Crossing the Bridge with Marc Chupka, The Brattle Group. The Bush Administration and the Congress are contemplating a comprehensive energy policy to address perceived shortcomings in the existing statutory and regulatory framework.
DATE: March 12, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Glenn Close, actress, and Co-Narrator of "A Closer Walk" discussing " A Revolution in AIDS Awareness.
DATE: March 12, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
Thursday, March 13, 2003
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Titans of Technology Breakfast features Steve Cooper, CIO, Department of Homeland Security.
DATE: March 13, 2003
LOCATION: Hilton McLean, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA
CONTACT: 703-904-7878
WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on military scenarios of an attack on Iraq and the economic consequences.
WHO: The speakers are:
Laurence Meyer, CSIS Distinguished Scholar
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy
DATE: March 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director for Latin America at the National Security Council during the Carter administration and currently Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at American University, will discuss the many crises taking place in Latin America while the Bush administration focuses on Iraq.
DATE: March 13, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Judicial Reforms in Putin's Russia with Veniamin Yakovlev, Chief Justice, Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia.
DATE: March 13, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
Friday March 14, 2003
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on Sustainable Enterprise: Implications For International Finance And Investment with Richard N. Andrews, Professor of Environmental Policy, University of North Carolina.
DATE: March 14, 2003
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a luncheon on CEIP China and the Internet: A New Revolution?
WHO: The speakers are:
Benjamin Edelman, Fellow, Berkman Society for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Shanthi Kalathil, Associate, Information and World Politics Project, Carnegie Endowment
James Mulvenon, Deputy Director, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, RAND
Minxin Pei, Senior Associate and Co-Director of the China Program at Carnegie
DATE: March 14, 2003
LOCATION: CEIP, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-483-7600
WEB ADDRESS: ceip.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker"news program featuring The Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, providing an update on "The Situation in Northern Ireland."
DATE: March 14, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
