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Events This Week
Flip to Fresh @ Madame Tussauds DCWe rocked the last Flip to Fresh Party atMadame Tussauds, so we are doing it AGAIN and since its election year, were partying with the Presidents-ALL 44. Youre invited! Rub your elbows with all 44- Presidents and much more! Attend the private afterhours party at The Presidents Gallery at Madame Tussauds and its FREE.
Save the date February 29th, 2012 with doors opening at 6:30pm. This is an afterwork no admission fee event! Join 94.7 Fresh FM for a great time, free food from Phillips Seafood SWWaterfront, and great prizes!
Explore all that Madame Tussauds has to offer and snap some awesome Facebook profile pictures. Flip to Freshon February 29th doors open at 6:30pm.
The Presidents Gallery at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.- Meet all 44 Presidents!1001 F Street, NW
Washington D.C.
MadameTussaudsDC.com
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Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. (1977 United Artists)
Annie Hall
Wednesday, February 29, 6:30 p.m.
National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and F Streets NW
(202) 633-1000
You are invited to the
IDAHO STATE SOCIETY'S"Welcome Back Congress"
Reception
An opportunity to catch up with other Idahoans in the DC area and celebratethe beginning of a new year!
Wednesday, February 29thCapitol Hill Club
300 1st Street SE
Sponsored by J.R. Simplot Company
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E-News from Carnegie
Capital Science Evening
The Universe from Beginning to EndWednesday,February 29, 6:45 p.m.
Carnegie Institution for Science
16th & P Streets NW(enter on 16th street entrance)
Dr. Brian Schmidt2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics
The Australian National University,
The Research School of Astronomyand Astrophysics,
Mount Stromlo Observatory
In 1998 two teams traced back the
expansion of the universe over billions ofyears and discovered that it was
accelerating, a startling discovery thatindicated more than 70% of the cosmos
was in the form of dark energy. 2011 NobelLaureate for Physics Brian Schmidt, leader
of the High-Redshift Supernova SearchTeam, will describe this discovery and
explain how astronomers have usedobservations to trace our universe's history
back more than 13 billion years, leading
them to ponder the ultimate fate of thecosmos.
Co-hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science with The AustralianNational University, and the Australian Department of Industry,Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary
Education.
A conversation with artist Mikael Olsson. His exhibition Sdrakull Frsakull will open in House of Sweden on
March 1st.
Wednesday, February 29, 6:30-7:30 pm
House of Sweden
2900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
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The Monthly DC Luncheon: Wednesday, February 29th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Assessing the Economic Impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline by Dr. William W. Wade
We cordially invite you to our February DC Policy Luncheon.
William W. Wade of Energy and Water Economics and the REMI staff will be discussing a methodology
behind an economic analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The proposed pipeline would impact 7 states and
2 Canadian provinces, while indirectly affecting the price of oil. To this methodology, Dr. Wade brings 30
years of experience conducting economic evaluations of policies and decisions bearing on natural resources
and infrastructure. This analysis uses REMI PI+.
The luncheon will be on Wednesday, February 29th, at our DC office, 700 12th Street NW, Suite 700,
Washington, D.C. 20005.
Lunch will be provided at no charge although we ask that you register in advance by emailing Leah Jalbert at
[email protected], calling our office at413-549-1169, or visiting us online atwww.remi.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Chris Brown
Senior Economic Associate
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
700 12th Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
tel.(202) 904-2490
fax.(202) 904-2491
Please join the Center for American Progress for a special
resentation:
Collective Impact: Moving the Needle on our Nation's
Challenges
March 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
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light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Center for American Progress
1333 H Street NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
dmission is free. Space is extremely limited. RSVP
required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis
and not guaranteed.
RSVP to attend this event
Welcoming remarks:Marta Urquilla, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation, The WhiteHouse
Presentation on White House Council Collective Impactanalysis:Michele Jolin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress;Member, White House Council for Community Solutions
Featured panelists: Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing GreenJeff Edmondson, Managing Director, Strive NetworkJill Iscol, President, IF Hummingbird Foundation; author,
Hearts on FireWilla Seldon, Partner, The Bridgespan Group
Moderated by:Michele Jolin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress;Member, White House Council for Community Solutions
Our nation is facing some of the greatest challenges in ageneration, and leading social entrepreneurs, philanthropists,
and other social sector leaders have stepped-up to fill gaps, toincrease their impact, and to serve more people in need. Yet wealso know that in many instances these individual, successfulnonprofits are not moving the needle on communitywidemetrics. They are serving more people more efficiently andeffectively, but the economic and social challenges facing ournations communities are simply too large and require too manyplayers for these individual nonprofit organizations to makedramatic progress on their own.
To get the kind of measurable, communitywide gains our nation
needs, all sectorsnonprofits, business, philanthropy, and
governmentmust pull together in the same direction. This kind
of collective impact is happening in a number of communitiesaround the country such as the Strive Partnership in Cincinnati.
The White House Council for Community Solutions recently
released an analysis that identifies examples of collective
impact in communities and the keys to success.
The Center for American Progress invites you to join our panel of
experts for a lively and informative conversation. The panel at
this event will explore the potential of collective impact to drive
significant communitywide progress on serious challenges and
the important role social entrepreneurs play in developing and
testing new solutions to community challenges.
Copies ofHearts on Fire will be available for purchase at the
event.
Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or RedLine to Metro Center
For more information, call(202) 682-1611.
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How Carbon Neutral is Bioenergy?
An RFF SeminarThursday, March 1, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
A light lunch will be available at 11:45 a.m.
Resources for the Future
1616 P Street NW
First Floor Conference Center
The IPCC (2006) has supported the view that wood biomass is "carbon neutral" in that itsuse for bioenergy has zero net carbon emissions since the emissions released in itsutilization for energy are subsequently captured in forest regrowth. This generally acceptedview, however, has recently come under increasing criticism from various sources. Using astatic accounting life cycle type analysis, for example, the Manomet study (2010) suggeststhat the use of wood for biofuels will result in a drawdown of the forest stock and a netreduction in the carbon captured in the forest, at least for very long periods.
To properly account for the emissions from wood used for bioenergy, however, one mustmove beyond a static lifecycle analysis to consider intertemporal market systeminteractions. Our study examines carbon neutrality among commercial forests responding tomarket forces. Markets react to price increases on both the demand and supply sides. Inresponding to price increases harvests increase thereby decreasing the forest stock.However, on the supply side forest managers respond to anticipated price increases byexpanding investments in current and future forest stocks. Using a dynamic programingmodel we examine the relationship between the declines in forest stock due to harvest andthe expansion of stocks due to investments. The results show that under market optimizingconditions when future demand is anticipated to increase for significant periods, theresponse of managers will be to increase the area and intensity of forest production therebyoffsetting much and often all and more of the carbon released in bioenergy production.Since forests have lengthy growth periods, the increases in forest and carbon stocks willprecede the harvests.
Presenter:Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Forest Economics and Policy,Resources for the Future
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To RSVP for this event, please visit RFF'seventregistration page.
This seminar will also bewebcastlive beginning at 12:00 p.m.
Have a question for the panel while watching the live webcast?
Simply Tweet your question of fewer than 140 characters
and include the hashtag #AskRFF.
Watch the Q&A at the end of the event to see if it is selected.
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UPCOMING EVENT NEXT WEEK
The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing
The Invisible Arab:
The Promise and Peril of the ArabRevolutions
with
Mr. Marwan BisharaSenior Political Analyst, AlJazeera
Thursday, March 1, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20037
Click here to RSVP now!
"Marwan Bishara's The Invisible Arab is the single most
The Jerusalem Fundfor
Education and Community
Development is a 501(c)(3) non-
profit organization based in
Washington, DC that does
educational and humanitarian
work on behalf of Palestinians,
particularly those living in the
Occupied Territory and
surrounding refugee camps.
The Palestine Center is anindependent think-tank
committed to communicating
reliable and timely information
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perceptive and accessible bookI've read about the rootsof revolt in the Middle East and the brave, chaotic,
exciting and frightening new world they have begun tocreate."-Christopher Dickey,Newsweek
and The Daily Beast
Marwan Bishara is Al JazeeraEnglishs senior politicalanalyst and the editor and hostof its flagship show Empire, a
program that examines globalpowers and their agendas. Hewas previously a lecturer of
International Relations at the American University ofParis and a fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes enSciences Sociales. Bisharas writing has appeared in theNew York Times, International HeraldTribune, Washington Post, Newsweek,Guardian, Le Monde, Al-Ahram Weekly,Al-Hayat, and The Nation, among otheroutlets.
Copies ofThe Invisible Arab: ThePromise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions will beavailable for purchase and Mr. Bishara will be signingcopies after the event.
about the Palestinian political
experience to American policy-
makers, journalists, students and
the general public. Established in
1991, it is the educational
program of the Jerusalem Fund
for Education and Community
Development.
Everything on GU's website is listed as being at "37th & O Streets NW"Here's a map:http://maps.georgetown.edu/
"Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an
Embattled Human Right"
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
11:45am - 5:00pm
Copley Hall Formal Lounge
Georgetown University
RSVP Here.
Sponsored by the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project and theWitherspoon Institute Task Force on Religious Freedom.
This event will celebrate the rollout of a new book,Religious Freedom: Why Now?
Defending an Embattled Human Right, authored by RFP Associate Director
Timothy Shah, under the auspices of the Witherspoon Institutes Task Force on
International Religious Freedom, chaired by RFP Director Thomas Farr. The event
is co-sponsored by the Religious Freedom Project and the Witherspoon Institute.
The keynote address will be delivered by Robert P. George of Princeton University.
Panels will feature a wide range of participants, including noted Muslim scholar
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf.
Why now? Religious freedom is under sustained pressure today around the world.
In some places, it is fair to say that religious freedom is under siege. The
publication ofReligious Freedom: Why Now?is a response to that sobering fact.
Although scant attention is paid by governments, the academy, or the media, the
implications of this crisisand we contend that it is a crisisare quite serious. A
worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large-scale human suffering,
grave injustice, and significant threats to international peace and security.
For more information on this event, please visit the event pagehere.
Schedule
11:45 am: Doors Open for Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 pm: Keynote AddressRobert P. George
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1:45-3:15 pm: Panel 1
Why Religious Freedom? The Challenge of Grounding Religious Liberty
William A. Galston, Wilfred M. McClay, Timothy S. Shah, and Amy Sullivan
3:30-5:00 pm: Panel 2
Why Now? The Urgency of Advancing Religious Liberty in the Muslim World
Thomas F. Farr, Allen Hertzke, Ed Husain, and Hamza Yusuf
Our mailing address is:Berkley Center
3307 M St NWSuite 200Washington, DC 20007
Celebrating the Release ofTheEscape Artists
A New America Foundation Book Event
Thursday, March 1, 2012
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Smith & Wollensky
1112 19th Street NW
(2nd floor)
Washington, DC 20036
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Even before being sworn into office, President
Obama and his economic team were tasked with
the great challenge of addressing a global
economic meltdown. In the highly anticipated
book, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team
Fumbled the Recovery, Noam Scheiber delves
deep into the mindset and struggles of the team
that guided the President's initial economic
policies. Based on numerous interviews with those in and around the team, Scheiber
expertly lays out this inside story.
Please join us for a conversation and reception to celebrate the release ofThe
Escape Artists.
Copies ofThe Escape Artists will be available for purchase.
Featured Speaker
Noam Scheiber
Author, The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Editor, The New Republic
With...Liaquat Ahamed
Board of Directors, New America Foundation
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author ofLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Jim Millstein
Chief Restructuring Officer, Department of Treasury (2008-2010)
Please RSVP by Thursday, February 23 by clicking on the red button or going tothe event page:
http://newamerica.net/events/2012/the_escape_artist
For questions, contact Stephanie Gunter at New America at (202) 596-3367or
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O P E N I N G R E C E P T I O N
"Hlne Berr - A Stolen Life" at La Maison Franaise
T H U R S D A Y , M A R C H 1 A T 7:00 PM
Dear Friends of La Maison Franaise,
On Thursday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m., La Maison Franaise is pleased to
extend an invitation to its faithful patrons for the opening reception of
"Hlne Berr - A Stolen Life," an exhibition created, designed and toured by
The Mmorial de la Shoah, Paris, France.
Admissions are limited. We are able to extend this invitation to you and one
guest on behalf of Ambassador Franois Delattre and the General Director
of the Mmorial de la Shoah Jacques Fredj. This event will be held in the
presence of Michael R. Marrus, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies,
University of Toronto and Mariette Job, Niece of Hlne Berr.
A reservation is required to attend. Admissions are limited. See below.
WHAT: Opening Reception Hlne Berr- A Stolen Life - details below
WHEN: Thursday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: La Maison Franaise, Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir RoadNW
ADMISSION: Free - reservation required (admissions limited)
RESERVATIONS:http://heleneberr.eventbrite.com/
Parking is available on Reservoir Rd. and across the street at Georgetown
University Hospitals pay lot.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of SNCF (National Corporation of French Railways)
with the support of Victor Caves et Chteaux.
We look forward to welcoming you to La Maison Franaise!
Please take the time to scroll down and discover some more of our upcoming cultural events.
Warm regards,
Roland Celette
Cultural Attach | Director of La Maison Franaise
www.HouseofFranceDC.org
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About Hlne Berr
Almost two years after the publication of her journal, written between 1942 and 1944, the Mmorial de la Shoah
chose to return to the tragic destiny of Hlne Berr, a young Jewish Parisian girl. Expanding beyond the strict
framework of a journal and the personality of Hlne Berr, this exhibit elaborates on the background of theOccupation and more broadly addresses the persecution of the Jews in France during World War II.
A student of English, Hlne Berr was 20 years old when she began writing her journal. The year was 1942, and the
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Trailer
IDB Cultural Center 20th anniversary, 1992-2012
The Cultural, Solidarity and Creativity Affairs Division of the Inter-American Development Bank,
through the IDB Cultural Center,
cordially invites you to attend a screening of the Uruguayan tragicomedy
Whisky(2004) color, 35mm, 95 mins., Spanish with English subtitles. Juan Pablo Rebella / Pablo Stoll
Winner Goya Award, Regard Original Award and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes, Silver Ariel Award from Mexico,Grand Coral First Prize at Havana, Golden Colon at Huelva Latin American Film Festival; total 20 wins and 4
nominations
Thursday, March 1, 6:30 p.m.
Whisky is a fine film of few words and little motion. The camera barely moves, and when its characters speak,their voices hardly rise. Writer-directors Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella build a tiny world of spareness,
solitude, and sudden awkwardness.
Jacobo (Andres Pazos), a lonely middled-aged unmarried man, owns a falling-apart sock factory in Montevideo(Uruguay), which is reduced to barely 3 workers. Marta (Mirella Pascual), a lonely middle-aged unmarriedwoman, runs the shop. Their lives are plagued by the most painful routine, mirroring the moribund sewingmachines at the factory and Jacobo's agonizing old car. Wake and repeat. When Jacobo's mother dies, his
younger, successful brother Herman (Jorge Bolani), who lives in Brazil, comes to Uruguay for a visit. Jacobo,who has a distant and resentful relationship with his brother, asks Marta if she will pose as his wife for a few
days so he will appear more successful in life. Marta agrees to pretend, but soon finds her loyalty to her boss isjeopardized.
(The film's title comes from what Jacobo and Marta exclaim before their ''wedding" photo is snapped.)
Inter-American Development Bank
Enrique V. Iglesias Auditorium
anti-Jewish laws of Vichy began, little by little, to radically change her life. Until March of 1944, the date of her arrest,
she kept her journal on a daily basis.
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DETAILS:
DATE: Thursday, MARCH 1, 2012ONE WEEK EARLY
TIME: 6:30 PM8:30 PM
HOST LOCATION: One Medical Group
ADDRESS: 1627 Eye Street NW, Suite 800 (@17th St) Washington DC 20006
LIBATIONS: One Medical Group
APPETIZERS: One Medical Group
Please join us for a luncheon discussion:
Too Little of a Good Thing: Social Justice in the USA
Friday, March 2, 2012
12:00-1:30 p.m.
National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge
529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC
A recent Bertelsmann Foundation study ranked the US 27th out of 31 OECD states in social justice. Alarming
poverty levels and limited access to health care and education contributed to the poor performance.
In the run-up to Super Tuesday and in the midst of a presidential campaign that focuses on the governments role
in society, join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Arent Fox Senior Government Relations Advisor and former
Congressman (R-PA) Philip English, and Bertelsmann Stiftung Board Member and former OECD Deputy Secretary-
General Aart de Geus for a discussion, moderated by National Journals Adam Kushner, that will address the link
between American social justice and economic growth, the ability to improve social justice in a time of fiscal
austerity, and Americans desire for social justice given their hesitance for big government.
A special presentation by Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohutwill look at recent polling of Americansviews on income inequality and the governments role in ensuring fairness.
RSVP (acceptances only) by Wednesday, February 29, 2012 to:[email protected]
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March 2nd Art Opening: Laurel Dugan & Chris Wells
Please join us on Friday, March 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m.Homebody715 Eighth Street SEWashington, DC 20003
(202) 544-8445
opening reception featuring new work by Laurel Dugan andChris Wells.
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Laurel Dugan,Untitled, Graphite on Paper, 2012I work from perception; instead of recreating in a photorealistsense, I expose in the figures a hidden reality that pulses withrhythm and life.
Chris Wells,Untitled, Oil on Canvas,2012Each work of art and each viewer have a unique experience; thereis a story or emotion that only the viewer understands.
Thank you for your time and your patronage!
Erin Mara
Cross MacKenzie Gallery
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PETER CHARLESNew Paintings and Screens
Opening Reception
March 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Cross MacKenzie Gallery2026 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
We are pleased to present the exquisite screens, drawings and paintings on paper and steel, by oneof Washington DC's most well established and accomplished artists, Peter Charles. Charles'sophisticated aesthetic and powerful graphic sensibility dominates the work in this solo exhibitionspanning a decade of the artist's mature work. His large-scale, painted folding screens are inspiredby traditional Japanese screen designs and 19th century American still life painting - a fusion ofeast and west. The artist paints both faces of the screens in a complimentary relationship andemploys the mechanics of the antique screens using modern day durable materials. The "verso"sides of the screens are evocatively spare.
Peter Charles is both a painter and a sculptor - his impressive art school training in painting andsculpture reflects his enduring interest in this dual approach. By folding the heavy watercolorpaper accordion-like and mounting the drawings on linen, his two dimensional works are given atangible physical presence. Some of his three dimensional steel sculptures are flattened wall-
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mounted pieces growing out if his interest in Early American toll ware. He constructs his tray-likeforms from rolls of sheet steel - bends, folds, welds, shapes and rusts them before meticulouslypainting his still-life subjects. The refined language of patterns and images Charles has developedhas evolved over time and draws from a rich visual experience with various cultural roots and arthistorical references. The push-pull of disparate elements within each piece; geometric - organic,natural - man-made, raw - polished, are united in accord in the finished art work.
A D.C. native, Peter Charles grew up with a singularly Washingtonian experience as the Head Pageof the Senate. He graduated from the U.S. Capitol Page School before he headed north to receive hisB.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture fromYale University. He currently teaches Fine Art at Georgetown University here in D.C. PeterCharles has mounted exhibitions of his work in galleries and museums throughout the UnitedStates including the Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., the Huntington Museum, Huntington W.V., the SoutheasternCenter for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston Salem, N.C., David Findlay and Ruth SiegelGalleries in New York, N.Y., Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago and the Koplin Gallery in L.A.Included in the list of his many awards is a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from the NationalEndowment for the Arts.
The exhibition continues through April 11th .
Read this profile of Peter Charles In the March Issue of Home and Design Magazine:
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Exhibition Dates(February 29-March 24)
First Friday Reception
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March 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Artist's Reception
March 10, 4:00-6:30 p.m.
Studio Gallery
2108 R Street NW
solo show:
THESE WOMEN
Amy Davis
Amy Davis' new series of
paintings, "These Women" are
an impressive display of
imaginary women. Davis' showpulls the viewers into her
spectacular imagination through
a world of paint and encaustic.
duo show: UNREALITIES
Peter Karp
This show explores the tension
between geometric/abstract
shapes and the human form, and
the space between dream and
reality. Selected assemblages
and photographs challenge
viewer imagination and invite
speculation.
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duo show: CRYOS
Iwan Bagus
The starting point of critical
elaboration is the consciousness
of what the self really means,
and its relationship with time
and space". This has been a
permanent preoccupation in
Iwan Bagus' photography. In
this collection, appropriately
named Cryos, Iwan's finely
attuned sensitivity focuses on
the ephemeral and the
perishable by using ice as the
fleeting media that frames the
fragmented images of himself.
second floor: A PERSON AND A
STORY
"A Person and a Story" is an
exhibition featuring local DC
artists and some of their
favorite portraits. Each portraitis paired with the story behind
the portrait, written by the
photographer, making the
experience truly three-
dimensional.
Featuring: Keith Lane, Jim
Darling, Joshua Cogan, Joshua
Yospyn, Matt Dunn, and David Y.
Lee
[image credit: Joshua Yospyn]
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You are cordially invited to the
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Scholarship Finalists' Exhibition
"You're off to great places - You're off and away!"
Exhibition begins at 6:00 p.m. on March 2, 2012 - Dr. Seuss's birthday!
Show thru March 15, 2012
Admission is complimentary
but space is limited
RSVP:(202) 965-3833
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P&C Art
3108 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
Young Innovators Wanted! seminar
March 2, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
followed by lunch
House of Sweden
2900 K Street NW
RSVP:http://younginnovatorswanted.eventbrite.com/
Young innovators are key to a vibrant, innovation-driven economy. In this seminar we will discuss theimportance of supporting young innovators,18 years old and above, and identify lessons learned from variousinitiatives that help them develop and market their ideas.
In both Sweden and the U.S., innovation is a subject high on the agenda. There is also a special focus on thenext generation's ability to compete in the 21st century economy. To provide supportive policies andenvironments for spurring young innovators, there is a need for help in generating new ideas, starting newcompanies, or innovating from within existing companies and organizations. We anticipate an interestingdiscussion on issues related to effectively supporting young entrepreneurs and to learn from the wide range ofexperiences among the panel and audience.
Featured speakers:Ms Annie Lf, Swedens Minister of Enterprise
Ms Rebecca Blank, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce (tbc)
Mr. Jonathan Ortmans, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation and President, Global Entrepreneurship Week
Moderated by:
Dr. John Casey, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at George Mason University. Adjunct Professor of Management
Featured Panelists:
- Ms Sarah Green, Partner and Chief Operation Officer, Empact- Ms Annika Jremo, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and project manager for Young
Innovators- Ms Ellen Thrasher, Director, Office of Entrepreneurship Education, U.S. Small Business Administration
- Ms Therese Sjlundh, Founder and Managing Director of Jnkping Science Park, Sweden
- Mr. Evan Burfield, Chair of Startup DC
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Tracks by Pete McCutchen
(February 29April 1)Opening Reception
Friday, March 2, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Avenue NW
Washington DC 20001
Pete McCutchen takes the roller coaster track to new heights in this Pop-Art inspired colorexplosion.
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1314 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 463-0203
HOURS:
Wed-Sun 12 - 6 pm
Black, White and In Between
New Work in Polymer Clay by
Fran Abrams
Exhibition: February 29-April 1
Opening Reception
Friday, March 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
About the Exhibit
Fran Abrams' work typically involves color and geometry. Color because the colors of
polymer clay can be vibrant in themselves, but also blend like paints. Just as in
painting, the proportion of each color in the blend affects the outcome of the
resulting color.
For this show, Fran explored only black and white clay and the grays that result from
blending the two. Her inspiration came from Washington politics where it seems
lately that everything is black or white and there is no in between.
Geometry is involved extensively in her work because each artwork is composed of
shapes and, when complete, all of the shapes fit together on the canvas. The black,white and gray geometric shapes create abstract works of art that convey a meaning -
- sometimes serious, sometimes humorous -- a communication between the artist
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and the viewers.
Pieces with titles such as "Opposing Views," "Reaching for Compromise" and "Tower
of Babel, circa 2011" are inspired by what's happening, or not, in the Nation's Capital.
Others, such as the entirely white piece titled "Snowmageddon," comment on other
aspects of the place we live.
Fran has been working in polymer clay since 2000. Her work has been widely
exhibited and has won many awards. All of the work in this show is new and has
never before been exhibited.
Seeking Balance, 12" x 12" , polymer clay (not painted) on fabric-covered canvas
Oil and Ice, 12" x 12", polymer clay (not painted) on fabric-covered canvas
March Members' Show
In addition to Fran's solo show inthe main gallery, Foundry's Gallery2 features member artistsexhibiting work that has not beenshown before at the Foundry. For an exciting array of work thatchanges monthly exhibited by a group of talented artists, please be
sure to visit Foundry Gallery regularly. All work is for sale.
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KING ME: Studies in the Uncivilized World
Curated by Adam Dwight, Artist
(March 3-29)
Opening Reception
March 3, 7:00-11:00 p.m.
The Fridge
Rear Alley, 516 1/2 8th Street SEWashington, DC 20003
Free and open to the public.
KING ME: Studies in the Uncivilized Worldis a multimedia exhibition examining symbols of power through artworks ranging from
painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and video. Featuring works by artists of the Washington, DC region, KING MEaddresses the
subject of cultural encounter through the lens of power aggrandizement and cultural exchange, highlighting abstract, representational,
and adversarial artistic expressions concerning the subject of domination.
Featuring the Work of:
Matias Cuevas, Lisa Parker Hyatt, Laura Elkins, Seleshi Feseha, Rebecca Katz, Hannah Naomi Kim, Sean Monahan & Gregory Fong,
Hermonie Only, Adrian Parsons, Stan Squirewell, Norman Strike
Washington
Printmakers
Gallery
ART*SPARKSRekindling the Gift
Solo exhibition by Marian Osher
February 29- March 25
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Opening Reception
Saturday, March 3, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
8230 Georgia Avenue, 2nd Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 273-3660
Featuring over 50 new prints that push past the flat plane of the paper into mixed media, multidimensional
monotypes on painted canvas. The artist shares exploration and insights that helped her to break through an
episode of creative block to rekindle her art.
Lessons From Our Cyber Past: The First Military Cyber Units
Monday, March 5, 12:00-1:30 p.m
Atlantic Council
1101 15th Street NW
11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
RSVP: [email protected]
Please join the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative for a workshop examining the early history of cyber
conflict through military units that were established to operate in this new domain of warfare on March 5. Cyber
Command is the most recent major cyber military unit, but it is not the first. Since the mid-1990s, there have been a
chain of military commands, each created to help the military understand and deal with conflict in this new
domain. This event will feature a discussion with three of the first pioneering cyber commanders: why was their
unit created, what did they learn, and what lessons are there for today?
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Featuring
Lt. Gen John H. "Soup" Campbell, USAF (Ret.)
Founding Commander
Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense
Maj. Gen James D. Bryan, USA (Ret.)
Founding CommanderJoint Task Force-Computer Network Operations
Col. Walter "Dusty" Rhoads, USAF (Ret.)Founding Commander609 Information Warfare Squadron
Jason Healey
Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Atlantic Council
PROGRAM
11:30 a.m. | Registration and Lunch12:00 p.m. | Introduction and Welcome
12:10 p.m. | A Conversation with the First Military Cyber Commanders
1:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion
1:30 p.m. | Conclusion
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Special Event on CEDAW and Womens Rights
Mon. March 5, from 11:00am-4:30 pm in Preston Auditorium
For more information, see attached invitation
RSVP [email protected] orclick here.
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Whither Africa? Perspectives from "The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa"
Monday, March 5, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Auditorium J1-050
WorldBank J Building
18th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Lunch will be served.
RSVP: [email protected]
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PANELISTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Banks Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991,
he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the DevelopmentResearch Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South Asia Region.
He was the Director of the World Development Report 2004, "Making Services Work for Poor People". Before
1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-
author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajans research covers public economics, trade policy, natural
resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries.
Ravi Kanbur
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and
Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Mr. Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and
Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He holds an appointment tenured both in the
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences, and in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the
Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia. Mr. Kanbur has served on the
staff of the World Bank, as Resident Representative in Ghana, Chief Economist of the African Region, and
Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist. He has also served as Director of the World Bank's World
Development Report 2000, "Attacking Poverty". His vita lists over 175 publications and he has published in the
leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy. The
honors he has received include the Quality of Research Discovery Award of the American Agricultural
Economics Association and an Honorary Professorship at the University of Warwick.
Thomas SchellingDistinguished Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Mr. Schelling is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. In 2005, he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for enhancing the "understanding of conflict and cooperation through
game-theory analysis." He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991, he was President of the American Economic
Association, of which he is now a Distinguished Fellow. He was the recipient of the Frank E. Seidman
Distinguished Award in Political Economy and the National Academy of Sciences award for Behavioral
Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. He has also served in the Economic Cooperation
Administration in Europe, and has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President,
Yale University, the RAND Corporation, and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs
at Harvard University. Most recently, he has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and
environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism.
Justin Yifu Lin
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
Mr. Lin is the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, a position he has held since June
2008. In his current position, Mr. Lin guides the World Banks intellectual leadership and plays a key role in
shaping the economic research agenda of the institution. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Lin served for 15
years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking
University. He is the author of 18 books and has published more than 100 articles in refereed international
journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition.
Alan GelbSenior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Mr. Gelb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Previously, he was at the World Bank where
he held the positions of Director of Development Policy, Chief Economist for the Africa Region, and Director for
the 1996 World Development Report From Plan to Market. His main recent areas of work have included the
special development challenges of resource-rich countries, aid and development outcomes, the transition from
planned to market economies, and Africa, including directing a major study Can Africa Claim the 21st
Century.
Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for the Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for the Global Economy and Development Program at the
Brookings Institution. He also works with the Development Assistance and Governance Initiative. Previously,
he was Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region at the World Bank and Director of the region's
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department. He currently leads a research project on aid
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agency effectiveness. His expertise encompasses the different aspects of economic development and global
economic trends.
Dominique Njinkeu
Program Coordinator, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mr. Njinkeu is a Lead Trade Facilitation Expert and the Program Coordinator of the Trade Facilitation Facility
(TFF) at the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Mr. Njinkeu's work draws over 20 years of
research and advice to African governments and regional economic communities on trade and regional
integration. He has researched and published on African economic policy issues such as trade and regional
integration, and international trade negotiations. He has taught at the University of Yaound in Cameroon, the
Universit Laval, Quebec, and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Ita Mannathoko
Adviser, Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund
Ms. Mannathoko is an Adviser at the International Monetary Fund's Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). Prior
to that she worked in various capacities: as a Senior Economist with the IEO at the IMF; as an Advisor to the
Executive Director for Africa, first in the World Bank and then in the IMF; and as Principal Economist,
International Finance & Trade in the Central Bank of Botswana. She has also served as Economic Adviser,
IMPACT evaluation for the US Government's Regional Center for Southern Africa's economic program. She
has twenty-five years work experience with a background in central banking, results based monitoring ofeconomic programs and evaluation.
John Page
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Department, Brookings Institution
Mr. Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Department at the Brookings Institution,
focusing on industrial development, poverty and migration in Africa. Previously, he was at the World Bank
where he held the positions of Chief Economist for Africa, Director for Poverty Reduction, Director for
Economic Policy, and Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to his appointment at the
World Bank, he was a member of the faculty at Stanford and Princeton Universities.
Lemma W. Senbet
William E. Mayer Chair Professor of Finance, University of Maryland
Mr. Senbet is the William E. Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the Smith School of the University of
Maryland, College Park and Director of the Center for Financial Policy. Prior to his arrival at the University of
Maryland, Professor Senbet held an endowed chair at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and taught as a
visiting professor at Northwestern University, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. He
was also a distinguished research visitor at the London School of Economics. He has been an influential
member of the global community of finance scholars for over 30 years. His chief research interests are in the
areas of corporate finance, international finance, agency, and financial contracting.
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About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a forum for substantial debate
on international development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250 events over the past
two years and has hosted many internationally recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis
Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Former US Senator Chuck Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and provides
internal and external audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
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You are cordially invited to attend
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR TOMORROWS ECONOMY
Tuesday, March 6, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Urban Institute
2100 M Street NW, 5th Floor
Washington, DC 20037
Lunch will be provided at 11:30 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon.
To attend in person in Washington, D.C., register at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2976898985. (Registration is required.)
To watch the video webcast or a recording, go to
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urban-institute-events. (No registration is necessary.)
Panelists:
Hal Bergan, consultant and former administrator, Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Division
Matt Harvill, vice president for unemployment compensation, Kelly Services Inc.
Pamela Loprest, director, Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)
Rick McHugh, senior staff attorney, National Employment Law Project
Wayne Vroman, senior fellow, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, Urban Institute
Many states unemployment insurance programs, which fund the first 26 weeks of benefits, are near
bankruptcy. In a fragile recovery with still high unemployment rates, the choice is coming down to raising
taxes or cutting benefits to keep the programs afloat. Several states have already opted to reduce
benefits.
Unemployment insurance was developed for a bygone economy, where workers were laid off for relatively
short periods and many returned to the same employer. Longer and longer spells of unemployment in
recent years (even before the Great Recession) have led to sizeable federal expenditures for extending
benefits beyond 26 weeks. Concerns also continue over whether the system works for low-wage and less-
skilled workers, who are generally less likely to be eligible for benefits.
This forum will discuss some of the key problems facing unemployment insurance and ideas for
overhauling the system. Questions to be addressed include
How can the federal government use sticks and carrots to move states to stabilize their programs?
What is the right balance between state and federal roles in unemployment insurance? How can the system better meet the needs of workers contending with economic turmoil and
longer durations of unemployment?
Citizen Havel(Oban Havel)March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Embassy of the Czech Republic
3900 Spring of Freedom Street NWWashington, DC 20008
The Embassy of the Czech Republic invites you to the screening of the documentary Citizen Havelwith introductory
remarks by Hugh Agnew, Professor of History and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs at the
George Washington University, and David Kramer, Executive Director of Freedom House.
Also, the Embassy has on view a special exhibition celebrating the life of former President of the Czech Republic
Vclav Havel by leading Czech photographer Tomki Nmec.
The event is part of the Embassy's project: Freedom of Expression in the Contemporary World, dedicated to
Milo Forman and Vclav Havel, running from February-May 2012.
A reception follows the screening.
RSVP:[email protected]
, by March 5, 2012
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Please put "Citizen Havel" in the subject line.
Directed by: Pavel Kouteck, Miroslav Janek, CZ, US, 2008, 120 min.
About the documentary
After the split of Czechoslovakia in 1992, former political dissident, leader of the Velvet Revolution, playwright, and
essayist Vclav Havel became the first president of a new country, the Czech Republic. Thus, it came to pass that a
former enemy of the state was actually given the popular mandate to transform that state and its institutions. Such
events are not commonplace. From day one, he permitted his friend, filmmaker Pavel Kouteck, to be with him, to
capture as much of it as possible, whether in the Prague Castle or around the world. The result is Citizen Havel, a
feature-length documentary of never-before-seen footage that provides an intimate look at a man thrust into the
spotlight of international politics and celebrity, trying to maintain a balance between public and personal life while
bringing his nation out of its communist past and into a free, democratic future.
David Kramer
David Kramer became the Executive Director of Freedom House in October 2010. Prior to joining Freedom House,
Kramer was a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is also an Adjunct
Professor at the Elliott School for International Affairs at The George Washington University. Kramer served as U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2008 to 2009. He also was a Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, responsible for Russia, Ukraine, Moldova andBelarus, affairs as well as regional non-proliferation issues. Previously, he served in the Secretary of State's Office
of Policy Planning, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and Executive Director of the
U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy in Washington. Before entering government service, Kramer was a
Senior Fellow at the Project for the New American Century, Associate Director of the Russian and Eurasian
Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Assistant Director of Russian and Eurasian
Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Kramer has also been a Lecturer in Russian Studies at
Clark University, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and an analyst for the Christian Science Monitor
Network during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hugh Agnew
Professor Agnew earned an Honors B.A. in history from Queen's University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford.
He came to George Washington University in 1988, after teaching at Queen's and the National University of
Singapore. Professor Agnew teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Eastern Europe and the European
history survey. He focuses on nationalism in the region, especially Czech nationalism. Among his publications are
The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (2004, translated into Czech 2008), Origins of the Czech National
Renascence (1993), and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of Czech nationalism and national identity. He
has appeared on international and local media including CNN, C-SPAN, Voice of America's Czech service, and Radio
Prague. Professor Agnew has served as associate dean for Academic Programs and associate dean for Faculty
Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
Exhibition:
The selection of 41 black and white photographs reveals the humor and nuances of the life of former President
Vclav Havel. Some of the renowned pictures in the collection feature Havel being elected president, giving his
memorable speech at the U.S. Congress, meeting the Rolling Stones, traveling to Poland, Spain and Egypt, as well as
saying goodbye to citizens at the National Theater after 13 years in office.
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In the early 1990s, Nmec served as the personal photographer for President Vclav Havel. He published a volume
of photographs that constitute a unique document of Havel's first term in office. Nmec has received wide acclaim
for his works. He has twice been awarded prizes in the World Press Photo contest and his work has been published
featured in numerous prestigous periodicals, including The New York Times, Time Magazine, among others.
Freedom of Expression in the Contemporary World
The Embassy of the Czech Republic presents the projectFreedom of Expression in the Contemporary World, which is
dedicated to lifelong friends and symbols of the fight for democracy and freedom: the renowned Czech film
director Milo Forman and former Czech and Czechoslovak President Vclav Havel. Running from February-May
2012, the project incorporates documentary screenings, panel discussions, exhibitions, and lectures focusing on
freedom of expression particularly in Burma, Belarus, and Cuba.
Mutual Inspirations Festival 2012-Milos Forman
The project is a prelude to the Mutual Inspirations Festival 2012-Milo Forman which will take place September-
October 2012. The festival will celebrate Oscar-winning, Czech director Milo Forman's 80th birthday, the best of
Czech cinematography, and the accomplishments of the transatlantic film industry, featuring over 30 films and
events in prestigious venues throughout the Washington area. In addition, the festival will incorporate concerts,
lectures, exhibitions, and theatrical performances related to film, photography, and/or the multimedia realm.
UPCOMING EVENT
The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing
Armed and Dangerous: U.S.Weapons Transfers to Israel
with
Mr. Josh RuebnerNational Advocacy Director
U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Tuesday, March 6, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20037
Click here to RSVP now!
From 2000-2009, the United States gave Israel more than$24 billion in military aid and delivered more than 670million weapons, rounds of ammunition, and relatedequipment to the Israeli military. These weapons had, andcontinue to have, a devastating impact on Palestinians
living under Israeli military occupation.
Drawing upon extensive original research on the quantityof weapons transferred, and the human impact and
The Jerusalem Fundfor
Education and Community
Development is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization based in
Washington, DC that doeseducational and humanitarian
work on behalf of Palestinians,
particularly those living in the
Occupied Territory and
surrounding refugee camps.
The Palestine Centeris
an independent think-tankcommitted to
communicating reliableand timely informationabout the Palestinianpolitical experience to
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budgetary trade-offs of U.S. military aid to Israel, theU.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation will launchits first-ever policy paper, U.S. Military Aid to Israel:Policy Implications & Options, at this event. The policypaper lays out the human rights, legal, political, andeconomic rationales for ending U.S. military aid to Israel.
Josh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of theU.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, anational coalition of more than 380 organizations,including The Palestine Center, that works to end U.S.support for Israels illegal 44-year military occupation ofthe Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and GazaStrip, and to change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel tosupport human rights, international law, and equality.
Ruebner is a former Analyst in Middle East Affairs atCongressional Research Service. His analysis andcommentary on U.S. policy toward the Middle Eastappear frequently in media such as NBC, ABC Nightline,CSPAN, Al Jazeera, USA Today, Los Angeles Times,The Hill, Detroit Free Press, Huffington Post, MiddleEast Report, and more.
Copies of the 40-page report will be made available
for attendees.
American policy-makers,
journalists, students andthe general public.
Established in 1991, it isthe educational program
of the Jerusalem Fund for
Education and CommunityDevelopment.
IFES EVENT
After Elections: Next Steps in Yemen's Transition
March 6, 2012, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
1850 K Street NW
Fifth Floor
Washington, DC 20006
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Yemen's February 21 presidential election resulted in the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year
rule. While some questioned the purpose of a one-candidate election, many others hailed it as a crucial
first step in Yemen's transitional process.
As the country moves forward, please join for a conversation on the next steps in Yemen's political
transition that will address issues including:
What are the priority issues for the constitutional committee? What will be the role of civil society, youth protesters and opposition groups? What challenges exist for reconciliation with entities such as Al-Hirak and the Houthis?
Featured speakers:
Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid, Head of the UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for
South West Asia and the Arab Region
Grant Kippen, IFES Country Director, Yemen
Ibrahim Sharqieh, Deputy Director of the Brookings Doha Center (invited)
Moderated by Michael Svetlik, IFES Vice President of Programs
Please RSVP byregistering online.
NOTE: Lunch will be served
Russia's Presidential Elections: Putinism 2.0 or Better?
Wednesday, March 6, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th Street NW
6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Complimentary lunch will be served.
RSVP:http://hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=event_registration&event_id=923
The Russian presidential election scheduled for March 4 poses yet another challenge for the legitimacy of thePutin system. The Kremlin is still recovering from last December's fraud-ridden parliamentary elections thattriggered unprecedented protests in major Russian cities. Even if Putin wins reelection, he will face seriousobstacles simply resuming the policies he pursued as president from 2000-2008. But are he and his regimecapable of moving beyond Putinism?
Please join Hudson Institute for a discussion of the meaning of the election results and what they signal for thefuture of Russia and its relations with the United States.
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Richard Weitz (also Moderator), Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, HudsonInstitute
Andrei Piontkovsky, Hudson Visiting Fellow and Russian political scientist and author
Leon Aron, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Glen E. Howard, President, The Jamestown Foundation
Smithsonians Stars Lecture Series
The Changing Face of the Moon: Exploring the Ancient History of Giant Impacts and Volcanism
Presenter: Gareth Morgan, Geologist, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
Saturday, March 3, 5:45 p.m.
Albert Einstein Planetarium
National Air and Space Museum
Independence Avenue at 6th Street SW
Tickets:http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/lectures/ticketsform.cfm
4:30 p.m. Discovery Station (in front of Welcome Center)5:45 p.m. Planetarium presentation6:45 p.m. Telescope observing at Public Observatory, weather permitting
The Moon, with its lack of both plate tectonics and an active hydrologiccycle, acts as a recorder of the events that have unfolded in our region of thesolar system. Using Smithsonian research, Gareth Morgan will talk aboutways in which Earth-based radar contributes to understanding the Moonshistory. He will discuss how the giant impacts that struck the Moon over 3.7billion years ago shaped the early crust, how the resulting basins have beenmodified by lava flows and further impacts, and how the culmination of theseevents continues to alter the Moon's appearance.
The Smithsonians Stars
Lecture Series is made
possible by a grant fromNASA.
"Best Laid Plans? How Ignoring Political Economy Affects Development Outcomes and Increases
Risk"
Tuesday, March 6, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
light lunch to precede event
J1-050 Auditorium
J Building
World Bank
18th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue NW
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OPENING REMARKS
Izumi Kobayashi
Executive Vice President, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
Ms. Kobayashi joined the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) as Executive Vice President on
November 24, 2008. Ms. Kobayashi came to MIGA from Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, where she was President and
Representative Director. She joined Merrill Lynch in 1985 to work on the derivatives markets, and
subsequently held a number of high-level global leadership roles, including serving as Director of Operations
and Chief Administrative Officer. As President, Ms. Kobayashi successfully developed the companys business
in global financial services and its client franchise, working with international teams ranging in size from 10
people to over 1,000. Ms. Kobayashi was featured in the October 2005 edition of the Wall Street Journals "50
Women to Watch", and in 2004 she received the "The Business Woman of the Year" award from Veuve
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PRESENTER
Ravi Vish
Director and Chief Economist, Economics and Policy, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
Mr. Vish joined the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in September of 2010 as Director of the
Agencys Economics and Policy Group. He oversees teams responsible for assessing project and country
risks. He has over thirty years of experience encompassing private sector development in emerging markets,
private equity, investment banking, and project finance. Mr. Vish previously held senior positions with the
World Bank Groups International Finance Corporation, most recently as Chief Financial Officer in Global
Financial Markets, Chief Investment. He has also been a Director and Senior Portfolio Advisor at DuPont
Capital Management, and CEO and General Partner, and Chairman of the Investment Committee at WestLB
Mellon Asset Management (USA).
MODERATOR
Daniel Villar
Lead Risk Management Officer, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
Mr. Villar has served as a Sanctions Board alternate since 2007. He currently serves as Lead RiskManagement Officer in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Economics and Policy Group. In
this position, he is responsible for overseeing country risk analysis and the economic analysis of projects. He
also leads MIGAs research team. His previous work experience includes various positions in the World Bank,
a major management consulting firm in the U.S., and a European multinational corporation.
DISCUSSANTS
Sarah E. Alexander
President and CEO, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association
Ms. Alexander is the founding President and CEO of Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), a
global, non-profit association that promotes the development of the private equity and venture capital asset
class in emerging markets. Prior to EMPEA, she was a private equity investor in Asia with Emerging Markets
Partnership (now EMP Global), managing private equity transactions across the region. Previously, Ms.
Alexander was with the World Bank Group, where she designed new initiatives for private sector participation
in development finance. Earlier in her career, she worked with the U.S. Department of State managing
international trade and financial policies.
Maureen Harrington
Director, Corporate and Investment Banking, Standard Bank
Ms. Harrington is a Director in the Corporate and Investment Banking group in New York for Standard Bank.
She is also the Head of the Governments and International Organizations team, responsible for broadening
solutions for governments, international organizations and others involved in African development initiatives.Before Standard Bank, Ms. Harrington held leadership roles at the Millennium Challenge Corp., including vice
president for policy and international relations and managing director for African operations. She has also
worked with the economic policy team at the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. State Department.
Subramaniam V. Iyer
Director, Sustainable Energy Department, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Iyer is the Director for the Sustainable Energy Department (SEG). One of his responsibility is to provide
strategic leadership and direction for the Bank Groups integrated sustainable energy and mining practice. Mr.
Iyer joined the Bank in 1993 as a consultant in the South Asia Region Infrastructure & Energy Division. He
transferred to the Africa Region in 2003 where he has held positions of increasing responsibility, including his
most recent assignment as Sector Manager of the Energy unit since February 2006.
Jean Pierre Lacombe
Head, Financial Engineering, International Finance Corporation
Mr. Lacombe is the Head Financial Engineering for the Corporate Financial Management in the International
Finance Corporation in IFC. Previous experience include Senior Vice President at Barclays Capital.
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You are cordially invited to attend an event for young professionals
hosted by the Foreign Policy Initiative
on the evening of March 7th.
Time to Attack Iran?U.S. Policy and Iran's Nuclear Program
Wednesday, March 7
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Networking Reception
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Debate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Participants: Elbridge A. Colby
Participants: CNA
Participants: Jamie M. Fly
Participants: Foreign Policy Initiative
Participants: Dr. Matthew Kroenig
Participants: Georgetown University
Moderator: Eli Lake
Moderator: Newsweekand The Daily Beast
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Despite diplomatic negotiations, international condemnation, and harsh economic sanctions, Iran continues to violate its internationalobligations by pursuing nuclear weapons capability. While some are still holding out hope for a negotiated solution, a differentdebate has emerged in the United States over whether it is now time for the use of military force to halt Irans nuclear weaponsambitions.
Join the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) as it hosts a debate over the use of the military option against Irans nuclear prog ram withElbridge A. Colby (research analyst at CNA), Jamie M. Fly (FPI executive director), and Matthew Kroenig (assistant professor atGeorgetown University) on March 7, 2012, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1779 Massachusetts Avenue,NW). Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent forNewsweekand The Daily Beast, will moderate the discussion.
Background Reading
Dr. Matthew Kroenig, "Time to Attack Iran," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2012.
Elbridge A. Colby and Austin Long, "Why Not to Attack Iran,"The National Interest, January 11, 2012.
Jamie M. Fly and Gary Schmitt, "The Case for Regime Change in Iran," Foreign Affairs, January 17, 2012.
Speaker Biographies
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