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Happening This Week in Washington DC: April 26-30, 2015
By Taniel Koushakjian
AAANews Blog
January 26, 2015
It’s going to be another busy week in the nation’s capital. Congress will
be in session Monday, Tuesday, and barely on Wednesday, before heading out
of town. Democrats have their annual caucus retreat this week in
Philadelphia, and President Obama and Vice President Biden are scheduled to
speak at the closed-door meetings.
In the context of Armenian American issues, here are a few events taking
place this week that may interest you:
– Wednesday, January 28, 2015: Woodrow Wilson Center will hold a
discussion entitled `Security and Energy Implications for the South
Caucasus after Ukraine’ from 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM, ;
– Wednesday, January 28, 2015: Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace will hold a book signing and discussion entitled
`Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide’ for Thomas de Waal’s new
book entitled Great Catastrophe from 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM,
;
– Thursday, January 29, 2015: The Knights of Vartan-Ani Lodge
will hold their first academic lecture series entitled `Oil, Politics, and
the Genocide in Armenia: The First World War in Retrospect’ at American
University, featuring Professor Christopher Smith, from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
– Friday, January 30, 2015: Atlantic Council will hold a daylong
conference `Toward a Transatlantic Strategy for Europe’s East’ from 8:00 AM
– 4:00 PM,
Also, next week, President Obama is expected to send to Congress his budget
recommendations for Fiscal Year 2016, beginning the long slog that is the
appropriations process. Also next week is the National Prayer Breakfast in
Washington, DC, where it has been reported that the theme of this year’s
breakfast will be in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. It is not yet
known whether President Obama will address the breakfast this year.
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