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EVENTS ON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL holds the 30th annual conference on "Our Future on Common Ground: Health and the Environment." The environment - physical, economic and social - exerts a profound influence on health. Many of the world's health disparities derive from underlying environmental conditions. While health risks from deteriorating environmental conditions represent a global threat, those living in developing countries pay the highest price, often bearing the double burden of traditional environmental risks associated with poverty and population density, and the modern environmental hazards of growing industrialization with weak regulation.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Preservation of the People: Population and Urbanization
Presidential Address:
Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar (Honorary Co-chair)
Carolyn Stephens, PhD, Co-Director, Centre for Global Change and Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Samir Chaudhuri, MD, Director, Children in Need Institute, Kolkata, India
Mark Montgomery, PhD, Economist, Population Council
6:15 p.m. Global Health Council Annual Awards Banquet
Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Managing Director, Human Development Network
Carole Simpson, Anchor, World News Tonight Sunday, and Senior Correspondent, Washington ABC News
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington,
D.C.
CONTACT: Lynnette Williams, 202-833-5900 WEB ADDRESS:
WEB ADDRESS: globalhealth.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on Argentina: Challenges For New Administration.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Carragher, Director of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Fernando Losada, Director of Emerging Markets Research and Debt Strategy
ABN AMRO, Inc. in New York
Bernard Aronson, Managing Partner, Acon Investments, LLC
Nelson Cunningham, Managing Partner, Kissinger McLarty Associates
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES holds a news conference releasing its World Refugee Survey.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Hiram Ruiz 202-347-3507
WEB ADDRESS: refugees.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS holds a news conference to discuss
Manufacturing Outlook, Prospects Of Deflation.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jerry Jasinowski, President, National Association of Manufacturers
David Huether, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Association of Manufacturers, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Hank Cox, 202-637-3090, or Shawnree Baker, 202-637-3094
WEB ADDRESS: nam.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PEW CENTER ON GLOBAL CLIMATE holds a news conference releasing a report on reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation, reveals numerous opportunities available now and in the future to reduce the transportation sector's impact on climate. Many of these actions would also address other national priorities, including reducing U.S. dependence on oil imports.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
David L. Greene, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andreas Schafer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-516-0605
WEB ADDRESS: pewclimate.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a Book Forum: Understanding the Regulation Game"
WHO: THE Speakers are:
Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center
Sally Katzen, former Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs administrator
Robert Litan, Joint Center
Cindy Skrzycki, Washington Post
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a book forum for Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach. Exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking, such an approach rejects the idea that there is something inherently wrong with using chemicals to alter one's mood or mind.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor, Reason
Sally Satel, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
DATE: May 29, 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 The Status of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Iraq: A View from the Field with Zainab Salbi, President and Founder, Women for Women International.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ISRAEL POLICY FORUM holds a program featuring Jordan's Ambassador to the U.S. Karim Kawar discussing Perspectives on the Middle East.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1030 15th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-842-1700
WEB ADDRESS: ipforumdc.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Martin Baily, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, "A Radical Transformation of the European Economy."
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION Chinatown Garden, 618 H St., NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Richard Moe, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation, will announce "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2003."
DATE: May 29, 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: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Marc Fisher, discussing his Washington Post editorial column on the front page of the Metro Section.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE holds a discussion on a report on "International Judges and Prosecutors in Post-Conflict Peacekeeping: Installing Imperialism or Eliminating Impunity?" with Michael Hartmann, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: USIP, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Lynne Madnick, 202-429-3804
WEB ADDRESS: usip.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SPORT AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION holds a news conference releasing its Parents Survey on Obesity.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Paula Kun, 703-476-3461
WEB ADDRESS: aahpert.org
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a forum, "Testing Economic Diplomacy in South Asia: Can It Really Work?"
AGENDA: Highlights:
2 p.m. - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Thomas Keaney, Executive Director, Foreign Policy Institute
Poonam Barua, Ford Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute (SAIS), and
Director, Public Affairs Management (New Delhi)
2:15 p.m.- Session I – What are the Prospects?
Terrisita Schaffer, Director –South Asia Program, Center for
Strategic and International Studies"India-Pakistan Economic Relations: Harnessing the Peace-Dividend"
Lisa Curtis, Senior Advisor, Bureau of South Asian Affairs, Department
of State
"Economic Linkages in South Asia: The U.S. Perspective"
Ram Babu Dhakal, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Nepal to the
United Nations.
"Cooperation in South Asia: The Regional Perspective"
3:30 p.m. - Session II -- What are the Challenges?
Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
"Military and Security Constraints to Building an Economic
Relationship"
Michael T. Clark, Ph.D., Executive Director, U.S.-India Business
Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"Investing in Peace"
Husain Haqqani, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
"Political Challenges to Economic Ties in South Asia"
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Playing the Angles: Russian Diplomacy Before and During the War in Iraq with Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Sri Lankan Peace Process: A View from the Inside---An off-the-record discussion with David R. Cameron, professor of political science at the University of Toronto, has been participating in the Sri Lankan peace process during the last year.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE presents Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who will talk about the role of poetry in America, the subject of his book Can Poetry Matter?, and read from his third full-length collection of poems, Interrogations at Noon, winner of the 2002 American Book Award.: Understanding the Regulation Game"
WHO: THE Speakers are:
Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center
Sally Katzen, former Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs administrator
Robert Litan, Joint Center
Cindy Skrzycki, Washington Post
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE presents Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, talking about the role of poetry in America, the subject of his book Can Poetry Matter?, and reading from his third full-length collection of poems, Interrogations at Noon, winner of the 2002 American Book Award.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE features Local swing band, Tuxedo Park Orchestra playing big band favorites.
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Caroline Kennedy discussing and signing copies of A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems and Speeches Every American Should Know. Kennedy has assembled her "collage of America," celebrating the "ideals upon which this country was founded," in chapters centered on such themes as "The Individual," "Freedom of Speech," and "Work, Opportunity and Invention."
DATE: May 29, 2003
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
