WHEN: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
WHAT: Hudson Institute Discussion on “Recent Developments in Cyberwarfare.” Speaker: Gen. James Cartwright (USMC, ret.), Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at CSIS.
WHERE: Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street, NW
CONTACT: 202-974-2400; web site: www.hudson.org
SOURCE: Hudson Institute – event announcement
WHEN: 12:00 p.m.
WHAT: National Press Club (NPC) Discussion on "America's New Focus on Asia: A Conversation with CSIS Scholars on Regional Security Issues." Speakers: Clark A. Murdock, senior adviser for the Defense and National Security Group at CSIS and Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues; Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies. He served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs from 1997 to 2001; and Ernest Bower, senior adviser and director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program and Pacific Partners Initiative. He is recognized as a leading expert on Southeast Asia and is former president of the US-ASEAN Business Council.
WHERE: NPC, National Press Building, 529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor
CONTACT: Myron Belkind at myron.belkind@verizon.net or 202-412-9257; web site: http://press.org
SOURCE: NPC – event announcement
WHEN: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
WHAT: Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC) Discussion on “Trade and Agriculture: Trans-Pacific Perspectives.” Speakers: Takashi Terada, Public Policy Scholar, Professor of International Political Economy, Waseda University; Doo Bong Han, Professor of Food and Resource Economics, Korea University; Former President, Korean Agricultural Policy Association; Mike Moore, New Zealand Ambassador to the United States; Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Former Director General, World Trade Organization; David Salmonsen, Senior Director, Congressional Relations, American Farm Bureau Federation.
WHERE: WWC, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
CONTACT: 202-691-4000; web site: www.wilsoncenter.org
SOURCE: WWC – event announcement
WHEN: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
WHAT: Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC) Discussion on “Islam & Democracy for the 21st Century.” Speaker: John O. Voll, Professor of Islamic History and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
WHERE: WWC, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
CONTACT: 202-691-4000; web site: www.wilsoncenter.org
SOURCE: WWC – event announcement
WHEN: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
WHAT: Atlantic Council Discussion on “The Way Forward in Europe.” Speaker: Luc Frieden, Finance Minister of Luxembourg, and an influential member of the European Union’s Eurogroup and Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
WHERE: Atlantic Council, 1101 15th Street, NW, 11th Floor
CONTACT: 202-463-7226, info@acus.org; web site: www.acus.org
SOURCE: Atlantic Council – event announcement
WHEN: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
WHAT: George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs Lecture with Laura Holgate, Senior Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council.
WHERE: Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E Street NW
CONTACT: 202-994-6240; web site: http://elliott.gwu.edu
NOTE: RSVP at: http://bit.ly/AcFPwx
SOURCE: Elliott School of International Affairs - event announcement
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