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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE hosts the 2003 Joint Service Open House.
AGENDA: Highlight:
10 a.m. - The opening ceremony with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
A fly-by from the D.C. Air National Guard's 113th Air Wing will begin the show.
3:30 p.m. - Air Force Thunderbirds
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, M.D.
CONTACT: 202-981-4424
WEB ADDRESS: Andrews.af.mil
TIME: All Day
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The Pew International Journalism Program holds a conference entitled "New Eyes, New Voices: A New Generation Looks at War, Peace and International News."
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Welcome and opening remarks
John Schidlovsky, director, Pew International Journalism Program|
Louise Lief, deputy director, Pew International Journalism
Panel Discussion: "New Eyes, New Voices and International News: What Do Under-35's Want to Read, Watch and Listen To?"
Steve Inskeep, host, "Weekend Edition," National Public Radio, Spring 1999 Pew Fellow
Panelists: Elizabeth Hightower, literary editor, Outside magazine;
Joan Walsh, vice president and news editor, Salon.com;
Matt Catapano, senior manager, research and planning, MTV
1 p.m. - Keynote speech
Lowell Bergman, contributor, The New York Times and New York Times Television; visiting professor, Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; producer/correspondent, "Frontline"
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES holds its second annual "Homeland Security Summit and
Exposition, Interdependence: Assessing New Risks and Sharing the Costs."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Secure at a Price: Defense, Insurance and Security: What Cost, Whose Burden?
3 p.m. - R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Global Strategic Security, Booz Allen Hamilton; former Director, CIA
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency - Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, V.A.
CONTACT: Stella Harrison, 703-837-1820/mobile 202-431-6461
WEB ADDRESS: mcgraw-hill.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Transatlantic Dialogue On Genetics And Health.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks
Forum Chair: Charles Sanders, former CEO, Glaxo, Inc., and CSIS trustee
Knut Vollebaek, ambassador of Norway to the United States
8:40 a.m. - Keynote Address
Kjell Magne Bondevik, prime minister of Norway
9:10 a.m. - Session 1: Research Frontiers and Technological Convergence
Rita Colwell, director, U.S. National Science Foundation
9:30 a.m. - Session 2: Pharmacogenomics
Steve Fodor, chairman and CEO, Affymetrix, Inc.
Sandy Thomas, director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
10:10 a.m. - Session 3: Regenerative Aging and Medicine
William Haseltine, president and CEO, Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
Richard Jackson, adjunct fellow, CSIS Global Aging Initiative
10:50 a.m. - Session 4: Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
Mark Hughes, president and director, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State School of Medicine
Ola Didrik Saugstad, professor in pediatrics, Dep. Of Pediatric Research, the National Hospital
11:30 a.m. - Session 5: Transatlantic Issues
Anne McLaren, principle research associate, Wellcome/CRC Institute, University of Cambridge
11:50 a.m. - Issues/Paths for Continued Dialogue
Torleiv Ole Rognum, professor, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Oslo
Barbara Rhode, head of unit, Ethics, Science and Society, Directorate General Research, EU Commission
Thomas Murray, president, The Hastings Center
Alex MacKenzie, Vice President of Research, Genome Canada
DATE: May 16, 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 holds a program on Economy Watch: "Boom after Baghdad?"
AGENDA: In the months leading up to the war with Iraq, the Federal Reserve warned that heightened "geopolitical risk" could harm the economy. Last week, President Bush announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. Now that geopolitical risk is a smaller factor, can the economy return to an upward path? Is monetary or fiscal policy action still necessary?
WHO: The speakers are:
Eric M. Engen, AEI
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
John H. Makin, AEI
David Malpass, Bear Stearns & Co
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS holds an OCED breakfast on High-Level Steel Initiative featuring Paul Atkinson, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology, and OECD.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: OECD Washington Center, 2001 L Street NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-6223
WEB ADDRESS: nabe.com
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: PROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE Friday Forum will address a crucial question in the aftermath of the military victory in Iraq: Will the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime lead to the spread of democracy in the Middle East?
AGENDA: The Bush Administration hopes that if it succeeds in Iraq, democracy will spread to other countries in the Middle East, a region where autocratic regimes have ruled for decades.
WHO: The speakers are:
Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute
Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution
Daniel Brumberg of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-547-0001
WEB ADDRESS: ppionline.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CLEAN BEACHES COUNCIL holds a news conference to announce its annual list of Blue Wave beaches, which have been certified as clean and healthy for the start of the upcoming summer beach season. The beaches on this year's list have met a new, stricter 56-point set of pilot criteria for cleanliness and environmental health, including tough standards for litter.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Walter McLoad, 540-373-1436
WEB ADDRESS: cleanbeachers.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA holds a news conference featuring AdelAl-JUbeir, Foreign Policy Advisor to Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 601 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-448-3127
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: REP. DAVID WU, holds a news conference to announce the formation of a national effort in the United States to donate SARS masks for public health workers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: Radio & Television Gallery, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Cameron Johnson, 202-225-0855 or 202-365-1869
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds its Friday Forum featuring AEI's education expert, Rick Hess, who will discuss the politics of school choice.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: DEFENSE FORUM FOUNDATION program on The U.S. Navy's role in the War on Terrorism with Adm. Robert Natter, Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-534-4313
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: GEORGE MARSHALL INSTITUTE Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy holds a program to discuss its report on "Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual? Exploring the Lessons and Limits of Climate History."
WHO: The speakers are:
Marshall Institute's Senior Scientists Willie Soon
Sallie Baliunas, challenges frequently made claims that the 20th century was warmer than any other in the millennium, that the 1990s were the warmest decade of the millennium, and that 1998 was the warmest year in the past 1,000 years.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: G-50 Dirksen Office building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-296-9655
WEB ADDRESS: marshall.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on Government Reform: Competitive Sourcing, Privatization, and Other Options. The Bush administration is pursuing a number of important reforms to overhaul the federal bureaucracy. Its competitive sourcing initiative will allow private companies to bid on up to one-quarter of federal work.
WHO: The speakers are:
Angela Styles, Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget
Geoffrey F. Segal, Director, Privatization and Government Reform Policy, Reason Foundation
Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: B-369 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE Directors' Night Out features new and recent contemporary dance works by Peter DiMuro, Liz Lerman, and Celeste Miller of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Egyptian Queens of the Ptolemaic Period" with Sabine Albersmeier, assistant curator of ancient art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Lizabeth Cohen discussing and signing copies of
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Professor of American Studies at Harvard, Cohen has written a book that has garnered extraordinary praise. In it, she examines the effects of the rise of mass consumption on our political, social and cultural life since the end of World War II.
DATE: May 16, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
