Thursday, October 2, 1997

1:30-3:30 p.m. Legislative Briefing

• Roosevelt Room, ANA Hotel
• Michael McCarry, Executive Director, Alliance for International Educational & Cultural Exchange
• Kennon H. Nakamura, Director of Congressional Relations, American Foreign Service Association

4-9 p.m. Conference Registration

• Ballroom Foyer, ANA Hotel

Friday, October 3, 1997

8-10 a.m. & 2-6 p.m. Conference Registration

• Ballroom Foyer, ANA Hotel

10:15 a.m. Buses Depart from ANA Hotel to State Department, 23rd St. Entrance

11 a.m.-12 p.m. J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding Award Ceremony and Lecture by 1997 Fulbright Prize Laureate, Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic

• Dean Acheson Auditorium

12:30-1:30 p.m. Luncheon Reception with President Havel

1:45 p.m. Buses Depart for ANA Hotel

2:30-4:30 p.m.  Concurrent Workshops

• Recent Developments in the Fulbright Program for Faculty
  • Ballroom 1, Ballroom Level
  • Christine A. Morfit, Acting Executive Director, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
• Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
  • Latrobe Room, Ballroom Level
  • Dorothy Herin Conner, Teacher, West Laurens High School, Dublin, Ga.
  • Martha Hart, San Diego
  • John Hishmeh, Program Officer, Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, United States Information Agency (USIA)
  • Jochen Hoffmann, Chief, Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, USIA
  • Jeff Lowenstein, Teacher, Newton (Mass.) Public Schools
  • Kirke Riismaa, Student, Dublin, Ga.
• International Grant Opportunities
  • Executive Forum, Ballroom Level
  • Ralph Hines, Chief, International Studies Programs, U.S. Department of Education
  • Christine Kalke, Senior Academic and Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Pat Kern Schaefer, Executive Assistant, USIA
  • Ronald Wells, Director of University Relations, Civic Education Project

4:45-6:15 p.m. Annual Business Meeting of Members

• Executive Forum, Ballroom Level
• Kathy Waldron (Venezuela 1981), Member, National Humanities Center Steering Committee on the Future of the Fulbright Program

7-9:30 p.m. 20th Annual Banquet

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Keith Geiger, Director, Office of Academic Programs, USIA
• David F. Hales, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director, Global Environment Center, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Saturday, October 4, 1997

8:00-3:30 a.m. Conference Registration

• Ballroom Foyer, ANA Hotel

8:45-10:15 a.m. Conflict Prevention and Democracy Building

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Harriet Hentges (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, & Senegal 1967), Executive Vice President, United States Institute of Peace
• John Hurford (India 1965, 1966), Executive Director, BEA Associates
• Géza Jeszenszky (USA 1984, 1985), Member, Hungarian National Assembly, President, Hungarian Atlantic Council
• Sir Ronald Wilson (USA 1956), President, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30-11:45 a.m. Globalization of the World Economy

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Colin I. Bradford, Chief Economist, USAID
• Earl H. Fry (France 1974, Canada 1995), Professor of Political Science and Endowed Professor of Canadian Studies, Brigham Young University
• Gary C. Hufbauer (England 1974), Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Kathy Waldron (Venezuela 1981), Vice President, Citibank, N.A.

12:30-2 p.m. Plenary Luncheon and Address

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Brian Atwood, Administrator, USAID

2:15-3:45 p.m.  Concurrent Sessions

• Planned Giving
  • Latrobe Room, Ballroom Level
  • Frederick G. Acker (England 1957), Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery
  • Howard P. Colhoun (Norway 1957), President, Emerging Growth Partners, Inc.
  • Richard O. Lundquist (Zimbabwe 1984, Sri Lanka 1989, Latvia 1994), Professor Emeritus of International and Private Enterprise, SUNY-Fredonia
• Global Fulbright Alumni Network
  • Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level
  • Jane L. Anderson, Executive Director, Fulbright Association
  • Wiltrud W. G. Hammelstein (USA 1987), President of the Fulbright Alumni e.V. (the German Fulbright Alumni Association)
  • Sir Ronald Wilson (U.S.A. 1956), President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia
• Fulbright Association Chapter Development Seminar
  • Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level

2:15-3:00 p.m. Veterans Session

• Lisa Chapin, Director of Member and Chapter Services, Fulbright Association
• Beverly Hawk (Kenya 1993), Immediate Past President and Secretary, Alabama Chapter
• David Levin, Senior Program Officer, USIA
• Jesús Méndez (Argentina 1983), President, South Florida Chapter

3:05-3:45 p.m. Newcomers Session

• Lisa Chapin
• Jennifer Ceriale (Hungary 1992, Germany 1997), President, Central New York Chapter
• Jesús Méndez
• Marilynn M. Rosenthal (Sweden & England 1989), President, Southeast Michigan Chapter

4-5:30 p.m. Concurrent Fulbright Association Task Force Meetings

• Fulbright Association Task Force on Eastern and Central Europe and the Newly Independent States
  • Executive Forum, Ballroom Level
  • Arthur Helweg (India 1971 & 1977, Australia 1978, Romania 1991), Professor of Anthropology, Western Michigan University
  • Harry L. Humphries (Russia 1994), Associate Professor of Sociology, Pittsburgh State University
  • Thomas J. Keil (Romania 1991), Professor and Chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Louisville
  • Linda Scanlan (1993 Bulgaria), Professor of Journalism (Ret.), Norfolk State University
• Fulbright Association Arts Task Force
  • Roosevelt Room, Ballroom Level
• Fulbright Association Environment and Science Task Force
  • Culpeper Room, Ballroom Level
  • Jeremy Cripps (Zimbabwe 1995), Professor, Business Administration, Accounting, and Economics, Heidelberg College, Ohio
  • Robert George (India 1984 & 1988), Professor of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
• Fulbright Association Education Task Force Organizational Meeting
  • Latrobe Room, Ballroom Level

6:30 p.m. Buses Depart from ANA Hotel to Meridian International Center

7-8:30 p.m. Fulbright Association 20th Anniversary Art Exhibit and Reception

• Meridian International Center
• Alan M. Fern (England 1954), Director, National Portrait Gallery
• Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Executive Director, The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities

Sunday, October 5, 1997

8-10 a.m. Conference Registration

• Ballroom Foyer

9-10:30 a.m. Pandemic Diseases–Global Impacts

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Sally Grooms Cowal, Director, External Relations, Joint U.N. Programme on
  HIV-AIDS
• Helen Gayle, Director, Center for HIV, STD, & TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Gudmund Hernes (USA 1971), Minister of Health, Norway
• David Heymann, Director, Division of Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases, Surveillance Control, World Health Organization

10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Environment–Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

• Ballroom, ANA Hotel
• Twig Johnson, Vice President of the Latin American & Caribbean Program, World Wildlife Fund
• Thomas Lovejoy, Counselor to the Secretary, Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs
• Ricardo Navarro (USA 1980), Executive Director and President, Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology (CESTA)
• Michael Rock (Thailand 1985), Senior Program Officer, WinRock International