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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

RSVP required:[email protected]
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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


tel.(202) 904-2490

fax.(202) 904-2491

[email protected]

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


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


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)



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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

[email protected].
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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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Flyer

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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1330 New York Avenue NW

(202) 623-3558

Free and open to the public. Photo ID required.

Business casual. Unreserved general admission, 350 seats. Arrive when doors open at 6:00 p.m. for best

seats.

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Join New Chamber Members, One Medical Group for Their LGBT Launch Party at this Early Networking Thursday!

Top 6 Reasons to Come to This Networking Thursday

1. Meet New Members of CAGLCC, One Medical Group

2. Make new connections, meet new people and build relationships.

3. Identify potential new clients & customers, and those who can refer you to them.

4. Discover great ideas for changes, expansions even new directions for your business.5. Find potential joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances.

6. Make great new friends who have the entrepreneurial spirit you love.

BOUTIQUE, MEMBER-SUPPORTED DOCTOR'S OFFICE CONCEPT ENTERS DC MARKET

The doctor's office. Reinvented.

One Medical Group is a boutique, member-supported doctor's office. We designed our practice around the

patient and not the doctor. We believe primary care should be convenient and accessible. So we've created a

new kind of health care relationship that puts your needs first including unique member benefits:

Same-day, on time appointments

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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]
mailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP:%20March%202%20luncheon%20eventmailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP:%20March%202%20luncheon%20eventmailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP:%20March%202%20luncheon%20eventmailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP:%20March%202%20luncheon%20event


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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


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


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


(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


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?
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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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


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

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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


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]

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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


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



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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


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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RSVP [email protected]

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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Clicquot.

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

To RSVP, clickhere.

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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