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January 2002

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Tuesday,
January 8

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Senior European Dialogue: "NATO and Its Future"

Nicholas Burns
US Ambassador to NATO

6:30-9:00 pm
CSIS
1800 K St., NW
Washington DC

Contact: Laura Wilkinson or (202) 775-3161

BY INVITATION ONLY

Thursday,
January 10

Washington International Trade Association

Cultural Business Protocol (CBP): Europe

European Program Speakers: Nikolay Platonov, Sr. Legal Advisor, Russian Trade Federation; Jose Alberto Azcona, Commercial Officer, Embassy of Spain; Jeanene Lairo, Trade Analyst, Representative of German Industry & Trade; Refi Ozgen, Economic Counselor, Embassy of Turkey

6:30-8:30 PM
Meridian International Center
1630 Crescent Place, NW
Washington DC

Fees: All nonmembers $25, members $15

Contact: (202)312-1600; Cultural Business Protocol: Europe

 

European-American Business Council

Briefing on OECD Science, Technology and Industry Work Program

Takayuki Matsuo
Head, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Program

9:00-10:00 am

OECD Washington Center
2001 L St., NW
Ste. 650
Washington DC

Contact: (202)347-9292 or EABC

Monday,
January 14

Center for Strategic and International Studies

"Transatlantic Defense Cooperation Experts Group"

Gordon Adams
Director of Security Policy Studies

12:00-2:00 PM
CSIS
1800 K. St., NW
Washington DC

Contact: Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.american.edu/aces/pages/pages/www.csis.orgg

BY INVITATION ONLY

Tuesday
January 22

Center for Strategic and International Studies

"NATO and Russia Since Enlargement"

James Goldgeier
Director, Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, George Washington University

12:00-2:00 PM
CSIS 1800 K St., NW
Washington DC

Contact: Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.american.edu/aces/pages/pages/www.csis.orgg

BY INVITATION ONLY

Friday
January 25

The George Washington University Cold War (GWCW)

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar

"The Space Program and the Cold War"

John Logsdon
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Space Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU

12:30-2:00 PM
GeorgeWashington University
Lisner Hall #230
(This is located on the corner of H and 21 Sts., NW; Metro - Foggy Bottom; or 15 min. walk for Georgetown University)

Contact: Marina Barnett

Monday
January 28

American University, American Forum

"Continental Drift? European and American Media Coverage of the Campaign Against Terrorism"

Transatlantic Edition Live Radio/TV Broadcast

8:00-9:00 PM
Kay Spiritual Center
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC 20016-8071

Contact: Pauline Dawedeit Liacouras, (202)885-2074

Tuesday
January 29

European-American Business Council

Meeting with the Delegation of the European Commission: Debriefing and exchange of views on the results of EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy's January 24-25 visit to Washington DC

Petros Sourmelis and the Trade Staff

2:30-3:30 PM
Delegation of the European Commission
2300 M St., NW
Washington DC

Contact: (202)347-9292 or EABC

 

George Washington University, BMW Center for German and European Studies

Standing Seminar in German History: "The Vernacular International: Heimat, Modernism and the Global Market in early Twentieth-Century Germany"

Maiken Umback
Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester, UK and Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard

5:30 PM
Georgetown University, ICC 550
Washington DC

Contact: Alison Hillegeist

Thursday
January 31

European-American Business Council

Luncheon with Spanish Ambassador Javier Ruperez

12:00-2:00 PM
Metropolitan Club
17th & H Sts., NW
Washington DC

Contact: (202)347-9292 or EABC

 

The Brookings Institution

"The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization"

Philip H. Gordon
Director of the Brookings Center on the United States and France

Sophie Meunier
Research fellow at the Princeton University Center of International Studies

4:00-5:30 pm
Falk Auditorium
Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC

Contact: (202)797-6227 or mailto:cusf@brookings.edu