16th Annual Conference

Overview

“Pathways to Peace”

Washington D.C.

October 1-3, 1993

Program

Friday, October 1, 1993

12-5 p.m. Conference Registration Ballroom Foyer, ANA Hotel

1-2:45 p.m. Fulbright Association Chapter Development Seminar Executive Forum

2:45-3 p.m. Coffee Break Ballroom Foyer

3-4 p.m. Annual Business Meeting of Members Executive Forum

6-7:15 p.m. J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding Award Ceremony & Address Nelson R. Mandela, 1993 Fulbright Prize Laureate Dean Acheson Auditorium, U.S. Department of State

7:30 p.m. Reception in Honor of Nelson R. Mandela Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State

Dinner on Your Own

10-11 p.m. Video of Presentation of Presidential Medal of Freedom to Senator Fulbright Executive Forum

Saturday, October 2, 1993

9-9:15 a.m. Welcome

  • Ballroom, ANA Hotel Michael S. DeLucia (France 1968), President, Fulbright Association

9:15-10:15 a.m. Plenary Address

  • Ballroom Joseph Duffey, Director, United States Information Agency

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

  • Ballroom Foyer

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Concurrent Workshops

  • Fulbright Association AIDS Task Force, B.J. Stiles, President, National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, Guest Speaker
  • Fulbright Association Task Force on Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar Program
  • Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
  • Global Fulbright Alumni Network
  • International Grant Opportunities

12:15-1:45 p.m. Plenary Luncheon and Address

  • Ballroom Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council of Learned Societies

1:45-2:30 p.m. Reception for Fulbright Prize Laureate Nelson R. Mandela

  • Ballroom Foyer

2:45-4:15 p.m. Regional Conflict, World Responsibility?

  • Edib Korkut (USA 1985), Physician, Bosnian human rights activist
  • Elspeth Rostow (India 1983), Professor of Government and Stiles Professor Emerita, University of Texas, Austin, Director and former Chairwoman, United States Institute of Peace
  • John Stremlau, Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State

4:30-5:30 p.m. Video of Presentation of Presidential Medal of Freedom to Senator Fulbright

  • Executive Forum

6:30-9:30 p.m. Annual Banquet and Performance

  • Ballroom
  • Rita Dove (Germany 1974), U.S. Poet Laureate, Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress
  • Akua Femi Kouyate (Gambia 1992), and Memory of African Culture, Inc.
  • Jorge E. Martinez (USA 1988), Pianist
  • Christopheren Nomura (Germany 1991), Baritone

10-11 p.m. Dessert Reception with the Artists

  • Ballroom Foyer

Sunday, October 3, 1993

9-10:30 a.m. Violence, Warfare, and the Media World View

  • Ballroom, ANA Hotel
  • Harold R. Bruno (India 1956), Political Director, ABC News
  • Georgie Anne Geyer (Austria 1956), Syndicated Columnist
  • Mohamed I. Hakki, Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief, Okaz Organizations

10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

  • Ballroom Foyer

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Relief, Development and the Quest for Peace:  The NGO’s Role

  • Ballroom
  • Jayaraj Acharya (USA 1984), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Nepal to the United Nations
  • Philip O. Geier (France 1977, Germany 1988), President, Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
  • Ann Micou, Director, South African Information Exchange, Institute of International Education

12:45-2:15 p.m. Plenary Luncheon & Closing Address

  • Ballroom Charles A. Gillespie, Director, NAFTA Task Force, U.S. Department of State