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EVENTS ON MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION holds a conference on Russia - USA: Towards A Political, Economic and Military Alliance.
AGENDA: Highlight:
9 a.m. - Opening Ceremony
Welcoming Remarks
His Excellency Yuri V. Ushakov,
Russian Ambassador to the United States
9:15 a.m. - Session One: 9:15 to 10:45 AM
Export and Investment Finance,
How to Get Your Project Financed
Trevor Gunn, Director OF BISNIS, US Department of Commerce
Panelists include:
Bruno Balvanera - Head of Business Development, EBRD
Norman Wells - Senior VP for International Finance, Comerzbank
10:15 a.m. - Session Two
Investing in Russia: Views on the Current Landscape
Sarah Carey, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
Chairman, Eurasia Foundation
Panelists Include:
Garegyn Tosunyan - President, Association of Russian Banks
11:45 a.m. - Session Three
- Successes and Obstacles in Investing in Russia
Moderator: Helen Tipliskaya
President, U.S. - Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Panelists Include:
Bruce Marks - Partner, Marks & Sokolov
Pat Cloherty - Chairman, U.S.-Russia Fund
12:45 p.m. - Keynote Address by Sharon Tennison - President, Center Citizen
Initiatives
"Russia's Entrepreneurs and How They Are
Influencing Russia's Economic Comeback"
2 p.m. - Session Four
U.S. - Russian Trade Relations: Challenges and Prospects
Katrin Kuhlman - Trade Representative, USTR Office
Nikolay V. Platonov - Senior Legal Advisor to the
Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in the United States
3:15 p.m. - Session Five
- Russian High-Tech Sector
Esther Dyson - Chairman, Edventure Holdings
Tree Planting Ceremony: 6 PM
Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St., NW
(next to the Russian Embassy)
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 325 Dirksen Senate Office, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-204-5304 or 202-546-3000
WEB ADDRESS: freecongress.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE holds its National Leadership Conference
AGENDA: Highlights:
7:30 a.m. - Perspectives on Education
Roderick R. Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education
8 a.m. - Israelis and Palestinians in the Post-Saddam Era
William Burns, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
David Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
1 p.m. - Presentation of the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment
Freedoms Prize by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, to Bernard Lewis
Acceptance and Keynote Address: "The Crisis of Islam"
Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
2:30 p.m. - From Inside the Beltway
Norman Orenstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Peter Beinart, Editor, The New Republic
Juliet Eilperin, Congressional Correspondent The Washington Post
7 p.m. - The Holocaust: Hope from the Ashes
Presentation of the ADL Courage to Care Award to the people of Riccione, Italy by
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director
Accepted by:
Sergio Vento, Italian Ambassador to the U.S.Rescue and Survival
Ruth Millman, Survivor from Riccione
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: Toward Reconciliation and Understanding
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust
Karen Brady, Catholic Educator and Convenor, ADL Bearing Witness Program, Tucson, Arizona
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1128 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Myrna Shinbaum, 212-885-7747
WEB ADDRESS: adl.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS AND NATIONAL ELECTRIC CARRIERS ASSOCIATION hold the "Second NARUC/NECA National Summit on Broadband Deployment: Accelerating the Transition."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Welcome - Bob Anderson - NECA President
Welcome - Bob Rowe - Chairman - Montana PSC
Keynote
Bruce Mehlman, Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Technology Policy
Robert Sachs, President & CEO - NCTA A Vision for a Broadband Future
Shira Levine - Executive Editor - Americas Network
Digital Rights and Broadband Content
Luncheon program featuring FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell
International Broadband Deployment - How Does the U.S. Compare?
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency-Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: 202-898-2200
WEB ADDRESS: naruc.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: EQUITY INTERNATIONAL holds Homeland Security Financing Briefing.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Lana Corrigan, 202-756-2244
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program entitled Asian Security And Hong Kong's Role In The Global War On Terrorism.
AGENDA: Highlight:
8:45 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks
John Hamre, CSIS president and CEO
9 a.m. - Asian Security Challenges in the Wake of September 11
Kurt Campbell, director, CSIS International Security Program
Randy Schriver, deputy assistant secretary of state for Asia
and the Pacific (OFF-THE-RECORD)
10 a.m. - Securing Asia's Transportation Infrastructure
Phil Anderson, CSIS senior fellow
Raymond Wong, commissioner of customs and excise, Hong Kong
Douglas Browning, deputy U.S. customs commissioner
Scott Gould, president, The O'Gara Company
12 noon - Controlling the Money: the War on Terrorist Financing
James Adams, director, Ashland Institute for Strategic Studies
Jonathan Winer, Alston & Bird
Edward Yau, director general, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Washington, D.C.
Juan Zarate, deputy assistant secretary of the treasury
1:45 p.m. - Controlling Exports: Strategic Trade Regimes
Robert Einhorn, CSIS senior adviser
Ken Juster, under secretary of commerce for industry and security
Clement Leung, deputy director-general of trade and industry, Hong Kong
Bill Reinsch, president, National Foreign Trade Council
Edmund Rice, president, Coalition for Employment through Exports, Inc.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a conference on "Iraq and Beyond: What Future for Transatlantic Relations?"
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -Opening Remarks
Jessica Einhorn, Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Dieter Berg, Executive Director, Robert Bosch Stiftung
Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the United States
9:15 a.m. - Session I:
Iraq and Beyond: Does Transatlantic Partnership Have a Future?
Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Former Minister of Defense, Poland
James Dobbins, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND
Sir Adam Roberts, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
10:30 a.m. - Session II: Richard von Weizsäcker in Conversation with Young Transatlantic Leaders
A Discussion of Current Challenges
Moderated by William Drozdiak, Director, Transatlantic Center, Brussels, German Marshall Fund of the United States
11:15 a.m. - Session III: Inauguration of the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor
Heiner Gutberlet, Chairman of the Board
Richard von Weizsäcker Professor, Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626 or 202-663-5730
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE holds a breakfast discussion on Reducing the Cost of Doing Business in Bangladesh featuring Ambassador Farooq Sobhan, President, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Madison Building, 1155 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-721-9250
WEB ADDRESS: cipe.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: COALITION FOR A FAIR AND INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY holds a briefing to discuss "States' Rights" Judicial Nominee Jeffrey Sutton.
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA
Judy Jones of Virginia, whose court victory under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, was erased as a result of Sutton's advocacy.
Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Ralph G. Neas, President, People For the American Way
David Bookbinder, Senior Attorney, Sierra Club
Louis Bograd, Legal Director, Alliance for Justice
Rev. Carlton W. Veazey, President & CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Jim Ward, President, ADA Watch
Bill Samuel, Legislative Director, AFL-CIO
Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Brian Komar, 202-466-3311or Peter Montgomery, 202-467-4999
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The War on Terror and Flight from History: Russian-Chechen Relations with Austin Jersild, Associate Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a luncheon program on he U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: Expanding Trade and Opening Markets in Asia featuring George
Yeo, Singapore's Trade and Industry minister.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Films as Social Documents" with Adoor Gopalakrishnan, one of India's most distinguished film directors, and Lalitha Gopalan, an associate professor of film studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and English Department.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Room 535 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on Hegemony & the Decline of Empires: Is History Repeating Itself?
WHO: The speakers are:
Niall Ferguson, Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University
Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow, U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Mandelbaum, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins University
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: POLICY INSTITUTE FOR RELIGION AND STATE holds a panel discussion on Prospects for a Pluralist, Modern Democratic Governance in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Bruce Robertson, John's Hopkins University
Dr. Michael Hudson, Professor, International Relations and Arab studies, Georgetown University
Dr. Akbar Ahmed, American University (Invited)
Hali Jilani, (Political Analyst, Freelance Journnalist on the phone from Baghdad)
Anthony Shadid (Washington Post correspondent to Iraq)
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 562 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-547-4700
WEB ADDRESS: pifras.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring The President of the Center for Global Development, Nancy Birdsall and The Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, and Moises Naim, will present and discuss the "Commitment to Development Index."
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: MARYLAND UNIVERSITY presents the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon discussion Israel:
Searching For Peace in the New Strategic Environment."
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Stamp Student Union, College Park, M.D.
CONTACT: 301-405-4076
WEB ADDRESS: umd.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY College of Law Office of Alumni Relations and Development will host a discussion with John Cruden and Jack Keeney, candidates for president of the D.C. Bar.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS: au.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features The University of North Carolina Greensboro Jazz Ensemble comprised of undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in making jazz a major part of their musical training.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds a professional event on "Interviewing Tips from the Experts."
WHO: The speakers are:
Owen C. Einspahr, supervisory special agent with the FBI and an interviewing instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, V.A.
Gebe Martinez of Congressional Quarterly
Lynn Sweet of Chicago Sun Times
DATE: April 28, 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 Louis Menand discussing and signing copies of
To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson, with an introduction by Louis Menand. To celebrate the 100th title in the New York Review of Books' reissue series, Menand will discuss Edmund Wilson's contribution to American letters. To the Finland Station is a brilliant survey of political theorists upon whose writings Lenin built in leading the Russian Revolution.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY presents David Malouf, delivering the 2003 Anzac Lecture addressing the theme - 'Anzac Day - what it has meant and means now in terms of the Australian ethos'.
DATE: April 28, 2003
LOCATION: Gaston Hall, 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-687-4328
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
