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DC Events | Sunday, April 22 - Saturday, April 28

Sunday, April 22

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 11:00 am Eco Art + Design Depot RSVP 11:00 am Tavis Smiley and Cornel West at Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel: The Rich And the Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto RSVP 12:00 pm "One Day on Earth" film screening United Nations Information Center RSVP 1:00 pm The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Politics and Prose 2:30 pm Inside Media: "The Richer Sex" Newseum RSVP 5:00 pm City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago Politics and Prose 7:00 pm A Talk with Bill McKibben, Distinguished Environmentalist Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP

Monday, April 23

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 9:30 am The Arab Spring, a Year On: How's America Faring? Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 9:30 am Asia's Economic Outlook: Weathering the Global Crisis While Confronting Rising Center for a New American Security RSVP 9:45 am "All That You Know…or Want to Know" Small Group Networking Event RSVP 9:45 am Pakistan-India Trade: What Needs to be Done? What Does it Matter? Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 10:00 am Briefing on Global Child Survival Efforts: Every Child Deserves a Fifth Birthday Center for Global Development RSVP 10:15 am Fighting and Rebuilding in Helmand and Nimruz Provinces Revisited: A Commander's View Atlantic Council of the United States 10:30 am Statesmen's Forum with H.E. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 10:30 am Antitrust Law Enforcement During the Obama Administration Brookings Institution RSVP 11:00 am Emerging from the Global Economic Crisis: a View from the Balkans Johns Hopkins University RSVP 11:45 am Writing and Living from the Heart AU School of International Service 12:00 pm Food Safety: Post-harvest Handling and Storage Society for International Development RSVP 12:00 pm "Angry Townspeople," the Internet, and the Market of Ideas: Vectors of Change in the Russian Public Sphere Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 12:00 pm Arizona Immigration: Showdown in the Supreme Court Heritage Foundation RSVP 12:00 pm Peter Beinart Book Talk: The Crisis of Zionism Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 12:15 pm Book Presentation on Decolonization of Puerto Rico Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 12:30 pm Afghanistan: Regional Economic Cooperation and Unleashing the Private Sector: Keys to Successful Transfer Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 1:30 pm Africa & New Global Landscape, Donald Kaberuka Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 2:30 pm Azerbaijan's Foreign Policy: Challenges and Perspectives Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 3:00 pm Learning From Success: Ministers of Health Discuss Accelerating Progress in Maternal Survival Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 3:00 pm Major General Toolan to Brief on Operation Enduring Freedom Potomac Institute for Policy Studies RSVP 3:00 pm America at a Legal and Policy Crossroad School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution RSVP 4:00 pm Dr. Salima Ikram National Press Club 4:30 pm Growth Dialogue's China Colloquium: "The Future of Economic Reform and Growth in China" 5:00 pm The Seventh Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Africa—a Second Independence: Redefining Old Relationships Center for Global Development RSVP 5:30 pm Redrawing the Boundaries of War Journalism: Covering Complex Conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia Today Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 6:30 pm Author Bob Doppelt | 'From Me to We' Busboys and Poets 7:00 pm Faith: An LGBT Perspective 8:00 pm 'Stand Your Ground' Laws: Self-Defense or License to Kill? Cato Institute RSVP

Tuesday, April 24

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 8:00 am Are the Joneses Keeping Up? Middle Income America's Search for Financial Security National Journal RSVP 8:30 am The Future of Medicare: A Reality Check American Enterprise Institute RSVP 8:30 am Leveraging Research Networks in the Americas Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 8:30 am New Beginning or Just Showdown Postponed?: A Look at the Renewed Talks with Iran over its Nuclear Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 9:00 am Book Event: Eating Bitterness-Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 9:00 am The Start-up Act: Building America's Entrepreneurial Future Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars RSVP 9:00 am 2012 U.S. Peace Index Launch: Implications of the U.S. Peace Index on the Economy and Budget RSVP 9:30 am Is it Time to Re-Regulate America's Broken Airline System? New America Foundation RSVP 10:00 am U.S. Policy to Counter the Lord's Resistance Army U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 10:00 am Sustaining the Gains in Malaria: A Focus on Pregnant Women Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 11:00 am A New Approach to Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 11:00 am 'China after the National People's Congress' Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 11:30 am Women's National Democratic Club Speaker Series: Nancy Grace Roman Woman's National Democratic Club RSVP 12:00 pm U.S. Government Donor Initiatives Supporting Food Security: Programs from U.S. African Development Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Agency for International Development Society for International Development RSVP 12:00 pm John W. Kluge Center: Magnificent Distance: Hawk & Dove, Artist's Talk and Screening RSVP 12:00 pm Elliott Abrams: Reflections on Democracy and the Arab Spring Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 12:00 pm Indonesia and Malaysia: Building New Partnerships in Asia Center for National Policy RSVP 12:00 pm Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience: A Conversation with Bassam Haddad Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 12:15 pm The Insufficiency of Sustainable Development University of Maryland School of Public Policy 12:30 pm NPC Luncheon with Ken Salazar National Press Club RSVP 12:30 pm Jeff Ghannam: The Arab Social Media Vortex Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 2:00 pm Prospects for Progress in Angola Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 2:00 pm The Implications of Democracy and Dynasty: The Foreign Policy Futures of the Two Koreas Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 2:00 pm Collaboration between Social Networking and Education Brookings Institution RSVP 2:30 pm The Summit of the Americas: A Post-Summit Assessment Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 3:00 pm A Conversation with Turkey's Kurdish Leadership Brookings Institution RSVP 3:00 pm Whither the National Project?: Future of Nuclear Energy and Reprocessing in South Korea and Japan Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 3:00 pm Resolved: U.S. Ex-Im Bank Financing is a Vital Component of U.S. Competitiveness Information Technology and Innovation Foundation RSVP 5:30 pm Book Event: Robert Zubrin's Merchants of Despair Ethics and Public Policy Center RSVP 6:00 pm Red Channel, Blue Channel: How Fox and MSNBC Are Transforming American Politics New America Foundation RSVP 6:30 pm How Cities Innovate with Tim Campbell Young Professionals in Foreign Policy RSVP 6:30 pm Paul Dickson 'Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick' National Press Club RSVP 6:30 pm Author Event, Fred Ho Busboys and Poets 7:00 pm The Great Recession: Impact on Worker and Retirees University of Maryland School of Public Policy RSVP 7:00 pm Transafrica and Bloomscreen Present: the Stinking Ship and No Fear TransAfrica Forum RSVP

Wednesday, April 25

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 9:00 am The Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry: A Look Back and a Look Forward George C. Marshall Institute RSVP 9:15 am Seminar: The Greek Economic Crisis: Myth & Reality American Hellenic Institute RSVP 9:30 am Experimental Approaches to Understanding Market Segmentation Strategies for New Agricultural Technologies USAID 9:30 am Towards a More Inclusive Hemisphere: A Post-Summit Review Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 10:00 am An Assertive China and Asia's Emerging Regional Order: The View from a Potentially Conflicted American Ally East-West Center RSVP 10:00 am NASI: What's the News in the 2012 Social Security Trustees Report? RSVP 11:00 am An Economic Analysis of a Health Care System Reform REMI RSVP 11:15 am India and Pakistan: Evolving Trade Ties - Transforming Relations? Center for Strategic and International Studies 11:30 am A Coherent Energy Policy or Bust? Environmental Law Institute RSVP 12:00 pm 'A Long Winding Road: The Creation of the IADB' Georgetown School of Foreign Service 12:00 pm Is the American World Order Sustainable and Necessary in the 21st Century? An Address by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Brookings Institution RSVP 12:00 pm Breaking the Education Deadlock: Fresh Thinking About ESEA American Enterprise Institute RSVP 12:00 pm (Re)Building an Effective Central Government in Afghanistan and Iraq Society for International Development RSVP 12:00 pm Mapping & Data For Journalists National Press Club RSVP 12:00 pm Globalization for Development? Policy and Collaboration George Mason University School Public Policy 12:15 pm Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed - and Why it Still Matters New America Foundation RSVP 12:30 pm Conversations with Scholars: Burma/Myanmar: Are reforms enabling or undermining human security? Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 12:30 pm The Future of America's Clean Tech Industry: A Live Web Chat with Mark Muro Brookings Institution RSVP 1:00 pm Climate Impact and Food Security Elliott School of International Affairs 1:00 pm White House Challenge Year-End Symposium, Featuring Eboo Patel Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs RSVP 2:00 pm Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security Heritage Foundation RSVP 2:00 pm Briefing on the Alternative Energy Future: Building a Practical Energy Policy National Press Club RSVP 2:30 pm History, memory and education: Examining cases of post-conflict Croatia and Bosnia School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution 3:00 pm Revolution in Nuclear Detection Affairs Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 3:00 pm Australia, the US & the Rise of the Asia Pacific Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 4:00 pm The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents Cato Institute RSVP 4:00 pm The Nexus between Water, Energy and Climate: Shaping Long Term Policy to Create Jobs and Business Success for a Resource Efficient Economy Environment and Energy Study Institute 4:00 pm US-Azerbaijan Convention RSVP 4:00 pm Clash of Economic Ideas: Book Discussion and Reception RSVP 5:00 pm Women Moderating Extremism in Pakistan Meridian International Center RSVP 5:30 pm The Birth and Death of Cults of Personality: Case Studies in North Korea, Libya and The Former Yugoslavia Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 6:00 pm Saul Landau Film Series: Que Hacer/What Is To Be Done? Institute for Policy Studies RSVP 6:00 pm Delegate Selection Book Talk AU School of Public Affairs RSVP 6:00 pm Reception: From the Frontlines of LGBT Rights Advocacy in Eastern Europe Open Society Foundations RSVP 6:30 pm W.P. Carey Distinguished Speakers Series Presents -Strategic Vision with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski Young Professionals in Foreign Policy RSVP 6:30 pm Investigating Power - Then and Now National Press Club RSVP 6:30 pm How Not to Bore Your Listeners: Producing Exciting, Alive Investigative Reporting Goethe Institute 7:00 pm The Cause Politics and Prose 7:00 pm To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes. 7:30 pm What is Happening in Libya Now Al-Hewar Center

Thursday, April 26

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 7:30 am Green Government: Are Agencies Leading By Example? Government Executive RSVP 7:45 am 37th Annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy American Association for the Advancement of Science RSVP 8:00 am United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll Policy Briefing National Journal RSVP 8:30 am Building on Success: America's Trade Policy After the 2011 Trade Agreements Center for Strategic and International Studies 8:30 am US-Azerbaijan Convention RSVP 8:45 am Transatlantic Partners in Global Security: The EU's Common Security and Defense Policy RSVP 10:00 am Innovative Sources of Financing Society for International Development RSVP 10:30 am Advancing Green Trade Against the Backdrop of the Euro Crisis Brookings Institution RSVP 11:00 am Child Soldiers in Africa: Critical Perspective Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 11:00 am Veronica Bichetero Lecture Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 11:30 am Conversation with BG Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor, Military Commissions, DoD Institute of World Politics RSVP 12:00 pm Effluent Limits and Monitoring: Do Regulators Inspect Polluters Facing Tighter Limits Less Frequently in Response to Noncompliance? Resources for the Future RSVP 12:00 pm Lessons from Homeland Security Regulatory Regimes: CFATS and Cybersecurity Heritage Foundation RSVP 12:00 pm Civil Society Workgroup Event Society for International Development RSVP 12:00 pm The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama Center for American Progress RSVP 12:00 pm China's Foreign Policy and Sino-U.S. Relations Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 12:00 pm Restructuring Prudential Bank Regulation to Make It Work National Economists Club RSVP 12:00 pm The Rise of China: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship American Institute for Contemporary German Studies RSVP 12:00 pm Japan's Economic and Political Future Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 12:00 pm Moving Beyond Past Mistakes: Genomics and Indigenous People Georgetown School of Foreign Service RSVP 12:15 pm The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed New America Foundation RSVP 12:15 pm The H5N1 Flu Experiments: Finding a Way Forward University of Maryland School of Public Policy 12:30 pm Women In Bio Meet the Experts Series: Jeffrey Shuren RSVP 1:00 pm Is Immigration Good for America? Cato Institute RSVP 1:00 pm Fortytude: Making the Next Decades the Best Years of Your Life through the 40s, 50s, and Beyond Woman's National Democratic Club RSVP 2:00 pm A Discussion with Cypriot Deputy Minister for European Affairs Andreas D. Mavroyiannis Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 2:00 pm Pakistan and the Terror Threat: One Year after the Death of Bin Laden Brookings Institution RSVP 2:00 pm Renewable Gas, Hydropower, and Geothermal: What is the Role of These Often Overlooked Renewable Resources? Environment and Energy Study Institute 4:00 pm Post-Occupation Iraq: Forging A New Democracy from the Rubble of A Dictatorship American Islamic Congress RSVP 4:00 pm European Energy Security and Turkey: the EU View Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 4:30 pm The Open Government Partnership: A Progress Report Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 4:30 pm The Coming U.S.-Japan Summit Center for Strategic and International Studies RSVP 5:30 pm Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them Center for a New American Security RSVP 5:30 pm K-Cinema Screening & Social: Leafie, A Hen into the Wild Korean Cultural Center RSVP 5:30 pm Conversations on Justice: A Losing Game: Sports and the "War on Drugs" A Conversation with Authors Dave Ungrady and Gregory Jordan Open Society Foundations RSVP 5:30 pm Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph Heritage Foundation RSVP 6:00 pm Farm Bill 101 AU School of International Service 6:00 pm Securing Our Energy Future: Reducing America's Reliance on Foreign Oil Foreign Policy Initiative RSVP 6:00 pm Gerald D. Feldman Lecture 2012: The Path to German Unity, 1989-90 German Historical Institute RSVP 6:00 pm Preliminary Findings From an Impact Evaluation of Low-Cost Private Health Insurance in Nigeria Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 6:30 pm Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies RSVP 6:30 pm The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life Busboys and Poets 6:30 pm DC Net Impact (DCNI) Speaker Panel: Sustainable and Stylish -- Responsible Sourcing and Supply Chains in the Fashion Industry Net Impact RSVP 6:30 pm Connect Veterans Military 101 Training Young Professionals in Foreign Policy RSVP 7:00 pm Congressional Campaigns: Past, Present, & Future 7:00 pm Framing Protest: Political Activism by West Bank Jewish Settler Women School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution 7:30 pm Book Launch - Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution 7:30 pm Asian Film Series: Summer Time Machine Blues Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP

Friday, April 27

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 8:00 am UDC Urban Sustainability Summit University of the District of Columbia RSVP 8:15 am 37th Annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy American Association for the Advancement of Science RSVP 9:30 am US Farm Bill 2012: Policy and Potential AU School of International Service 9:30 am Great Lakes Policy Forum-Lake Albert Oil, a "Resource Curse" for Uganda? Search for Common Ground RSVP 10:00 am Promoting Gender Equality in National Responses to HIV/AIDS International Center for Research on Women RSVP 12:00 pm Economic and Political Challenges in the Philippines Carnegie Endowment for International Peace RSVP 12:00 pm Policy Luncheon - It Takes a CEO: It's Time to Lead With Integrity Committee for Economic Development RSVP 12:00 pm Fisheries Law Enforcement: Status and Challenges Environmental Law Institute RSVP 12:00 pm The Politics of Tough Budgets: Fiscal Responses to Crisis in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Greece Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 2:00 pm Prevention Works Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies RSVP 5:00 pm The International Development Studies Program 2012 Capstone Presentations Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 6:00 pm Author Medea Benjamin, "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control" Busboys and Poets

Saturday, April 28

Time Topic Host Organization RSVP 8:00 am UDC Urban Sustainability Summit University of the District of Columbia RSVP 9:00 am TransparencyCamp 2012 Sunlight Foundation RSVP 9:00 am Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control RSVP 9:30 am Newsmakers Series: 2012 Presidential Election Washington Post RSVP 10:00 am USA Science & Engineering Festival American Association for the Advancement of Science RSVP 12:00 pm Rising Tides: A Simulation of Crisis in the Taiwan Strait Elliott School of International Affairs RSVP 2:30 pm Inside Media: Sparking Innovation Newseum RSVP 5:00 pm Author Event: The 5th Inning Busboys and Poets 5:00 pm The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity Politics and Prose

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