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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MAY 19, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: INTERACTION holds a forum themed The Challenge of Global Commitments:
Advancing Relief and Development Goals through Advocacy and Action.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Commission on the Advancement of Women (CAW) Annual Breakfast themed Gender, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals
Sarah Newhall, President and CEO, Pact; and Co-Chair, Commission on the Advancement of Women, InterAction
Lisa Veneklasen, Executive Director, Just Associates
Malcolm Ehrenpreis, Communications Officer, The World Bank
Geeta Rao Gupta,Co-chair of the Millennium Project Task Force on Primary Education and Gender Equality; and President, ICRW
Santosh Mehrotra, Senior Policy Advisor, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
12:30 p.m. - Shashi Tharoor, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd St, N.W., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202/667-8227 x115;
WEB ADDRESS: interaction.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE holds a conference on Striking a Balance: The Future of U.S. Syrian Relations."
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-785-1141
WEB ADDRESS: mideasti.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: EQUITY INTERNATIONAL holds "The Homeland Security Financing Briefing."
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Lana Corrigan 202-756-2244
WEB ADDRESS: equityinternational.tv.index.asp
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Independent Task Force on Korea will release its
findings and recommendations about U.S. policy toward North Korea.
AGENDA: The Task Force believes that effective policymaking on Korea is currently hampered
by divisions within the administration and by dissension among the United
States and its regional partners.
WHO: The speakers are:
Former Ambassadors Morton Abramowitz
James Laney chair the Task Force
Council Senior Fellow, Eric Heginbotham
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: The Washington Club, 15 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND LIVING CITIES: THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE hold a program to discuss "Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: Declines in Concentrated Poverty.
in the 1990s."
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul Jargowsky, Author and Director, The Bruton Center for Development Studies,
University of Texas, Dallas
Tom Kingsley, Author and Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute
Metropolitan Housing and Community Policy Center
Bruce Katz, Vice President, The Brookings Institution; Director, Center on Urban
and Metropolitan Policy
Angela Blackwell, President, PolicyLink
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Former Senior Advisor to the
President on Welfare Policy
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a book forum for "The Bias Against Guns." Author John Lott explains how the media and government misinform the public about the risks and benefits of gun ownership. He argues that by publishing - almost exclusively - stories discouraging gun ownership, the media actually endangers lives. News items report almost always tragic events caused by guns but almost never stories about the lives saved by the use of a gun.
WHO: The speakers are:
John R. Lott Jr., AEI
Paul Waldman, University of Pennsylvania
Carl Moody, College of William and Mary
Eugene Kontorovich, George Mason University Law School
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Asa Hutchinson, under secretary of homeland security for border and transportation security, will outline for the first time the details of the new U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology (USVISIT) entry-exit control system.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, will address U.S.-Central American trade relations and the role of labor standards in the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: SHADOW OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE will hold its semi-annual news conference.
WHO: The speakers are:
Anna J. Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research
Charles Plosser, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Rochester
Mickey D. Levy, Bank of America
W. Lee Hoskins, Senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute
Alan C. Stockman, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
Gregory D. Hess, Department of Economics, Claremont-McKenna College
Bennett McCallum, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on U.S.-Russian Relations in an Emerging World with Nikolai Zlobin, Director, Russian and Asian Programs, Center for Defense Information, Washington, D.C. and former Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Confronting North Korea.
WHO: The speakers are:
William Perry, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Center for Security and Cooperation
Robert Gallucci, Former Ambassador At-large, U.S. Department of State
Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
Chung Chong-wook, Former Republic of Korea National Security Advisor
Freeman Foundation Visiting Professor
Claremont McKenna College
Daniel Poneman, Former Special Assistant to the President
For Non-Proliferation and Export Controls
Senior Fellow, Forum for International Policy
Joel Wit, CSIS Senior Fellow
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: US COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA'S HERITAGE holds a Signing Of Joint Declaration by U.S. and German leaders to Preserve Cultural Sites in Germany. The agreement, will formalize the many years of cooperation between the two governments.
AGENDA: The signing comes only one year after the commemoration by officials of both governments of a memorial at the infamous Little Camp at Buchenwald to honor its victims.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Indian Treaty Room, Eisenhower Executive Office
Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Risa Heller, 202-265-3000
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a program on Roadmaps to Coverage: Exploring Options for the Uninsured.
WHO: The speakers are:
Elliot Wicks of ESRI
Len Nichols of the Center for Studying Health System Change
Tom Miller of the Cato Institute.
Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University
Robert Helms of the American Enterprise Institute
Ed Howard Alliance
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Room G-50, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS: alliance.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: U.S. COALITION FOR NUTRITIONAL INGREDIENTS holds a news conference to discuss Study Released of Milk Protein Concentrates.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Bruce Scherr, president, Sparks Companies, Inc.
Bill Moats, Sparks, Companies, Inc.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-715-1516
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE holds a luncheon briefing with
Azmi Bishara - Member of Israel's Knesset and former candidate for prime minister, has fought an uphill battle for equal political rights for Israel's Arab minority. Bishara's parliamentary immunity was revoked in 2000 in an unprecedented move against a legislator in Israel.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a public policy symposium on TNR On Securing The Nation's Energy Future.
WHO: The speakers are:
Andrew Lundquist, Former White House Advisor on Energy Policy
Phil Sharp, Former Congressman
Robert Ebel, Energy Program Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Bill Martin, Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy Executive Secretary, National Security Council
W. David Montgomery, Energy Economist, Charles River Associates
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE DEMOCRATIC Whip Steny Hoyer will hold his regular pen and pad briefing
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: H-306, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Laura Nichols, 202-225-0100
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features DC WritersCorps presenting its youth poetry slam league championship.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on "The Road to Home" Reflections Rooted in the Middle East.
WHO: The speakers are:
Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Judith Kipper, Director, Middle East Forum
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: St. Regis Hotel, Chandelier Room, 16th and K Streets, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA holds Media and Government Panel
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Randy Covington, 803-777-6898
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Beverly Lowry discussing and signing copies of
Her Dream Of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker. Lowry tells the remarkable rags-to-riches story of Madam Walker, who created a cosmetics empire and became the first female African American titan. Her story starts in 1867 Louisiana and ends in New York during the Harlem Renaissance. Lowry, a transplanted southerner-a writer of both fiction and nonfiction-now teaches at George Mason University.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
