Search
Displaying results 241 - 250 of 466
NPC Summit
Type: Event
Tom Friedman To Lead Panel On Impact of Paris Accords On Electric Utilities
Tom Friedman To Lead Panel On Impact of Paris Accords On Electric Utilities Join us at the National Press Club with Pulitzer Prize winner and best selling author Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Event will be in the First Amendment Lounge at 2:30 p.m. Attendance is free of charge but registration is required. Mr. Friedman will lead a panel discussion on the impact of the recent UN Climate Conference in Paris and what it will mean for the U.S. Electric Utility industry and their customers. This program is sponsored by the Club’s Events Committee. Mr. Friedman has written about the Paris…
Type: Event
BOG Appreciation Dinner
Type: Event
NSO at the NPC
Learn How to Cover Sexual Assault
Type: Event
NPC Book Rap: Rod Nordland - "The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing"
Rod Nordland will discuss his new book, The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing, on February 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge. A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were…
Type: Event
NPC Luncheon with Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada
Livestream will begin at 1pm ET. Denied a visa to compete in the Miss World finals in China this Saturday, Miss Canada – outspoken human rights activist Anastasia Lin – will speak at a National Press Club luncheon a day earlier, Friday, Dec. 18. China denied Lin’s visa application, telling the New York Times in a statement: “China welcomes all lawful activities organized in China by international organizations or agencies, including the Miss World pageant. But China does not allow any persona non grata to come to China.” Lin, who emigrated to China as an adolescent, has testified before…
Type: Event
Mexico's Minister of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz Massieu
39th Annual Book Fair & Authors' Night, in partnership with Politics & Prose
Type: Event
NPC Luncheon with Alejandro García Padilla, Governor of Puerto Rico
Governor Alejandro García Padilla of Puerto Rico, will speak at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, December 16. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a Q&A session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $23 for National Press Club members and one guest, and $37 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased online by going to the following LINK. For questions, please email [email protected] or call (202) 662-7501. NPC members who wish to attend the pre-luncheon reception must RSVP separately to [email protected] at least 48 hours in…
Type: Event
NPC Speakers Press Conference with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will speak about corporate international tax reform at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Senator Warren’s speech, sponsored by the National Press Club Speakers Committee, will follow the format of an NPC lunch, but lunch will not be served. The event, to be held in the Fourth Estate Restaurant, will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and include a question-and-answer session ending at 1:30 p.m. Due to limited seating, this event is open only to journalist members of the National Press Club and accredited journalists with ID. Advance registration…
Type: Event
NPC Fall Hoot Featuring Tom DeFrank, Contributing Editor at National Journal
Amtrak Present Proposed Solutions to Runaway Railway Congestion Problems
Type: Event