In Brief
Hopkins-affiliated medical center in Lebanon begins
operations
The first Middle East clinical facility affiliated
with Johns Hopkins Medicine International opened Feb. 20 in
Beirut, Lebanon. The affiliation with Clemenceau Medical
Center began in early 2002 with the major goal of building
a state-of-the-art health care facility to benefit the
people of Lebanon and the surrounding region.
The affiliation calls for collaborations in the areas
of clinical program development, patient and quality
management services, educational packages for physicians,
nurses and technical staff, and the exploration of research
activities.
Japanese ambassador to U.S., Ryozo Kato, to speak at
SAIS
Ryozo Kato, Japanese ambassador to the United States,
will speak at the
School of Advanced International Studies on Tuesday,
Feb. 28.
As speaker for the first Edwin O. Reischauer Memorial
Lecture at SAIS, he will address the topic of "The
U.S.-Japan Alliance in Asia."
The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Nitze
Building's Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should
RSVP to the SAIS Reischauer Center at 202-663-5812 or mbrow108@jhu.edu.
JHU Theatre to present world premiere of Yasmine Rana
play
The Johns Hopkins University Theatre will present the
world premiere production of Yasmine Rana's play
Returning this week in the Merrick Barn on the
Homewood campus.
Returning concerns war-displaced young women
trying to go home. A blend of passion, humor and intimate
drama, the play is based in part on Rana's work with
refugee and returning populations at youth houses in
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tbilisi, in the Republic
of Georgia. Directed by James Glossman, the production's
stars are undergraduates Michelle Brown, Elizabeth Eldride,
Tania Hamod, Elspeth Kursh, Akshay Oberoi and Julie
Sihilling.
The play will run on two weekends, March 3 to 5 and
March 10 to 12. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8
p.m.; Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15
adults, $14 seniors and $5 for students. Call the JHU
Theatre box office at 410-516-5153 for tickets, or e-mail
your ticket request to
jhut@jhu.edu.
Timore-Leste foreign minister to speak about United
Nations
Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta,
Timor-Leste's senior minister for foreign affairs and
cooperation, will speak at
SAIS today, Feb.
27, on the topic "The United Nations and the United States:
A View From Afar."
An internationally recognized leader of Timor-Leste,
the world's newest democracy and the first new country of
this millennium, Ramos-Horta shared the 1996 Nobel Peace
Prize with his fellow countryman, Bishop Carlos Filipe
Ximenes Belo, for their sustained efforts to find a
diplomatic solution to the conflict of East Timor (now
Timor-Leste) based on the people's right to
self-determination.
After the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975,
Ramos-Horta served in exile as the vice president of the
National Council Maubere Resistance, an umbrella
organization of pro-independence movements both within and
outside that country.
The event will be held in the Nitze Building's Kenney
Auditorium. The talk begins at 5:30 p.m., preceded by a
reception at 5 p.m. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to the
SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program at 202-663-5837 or sea-sais@jhu.edu.
Peabody at Homewood Concert Series begins this
week
Top students and graduates of the
Peabody
Conservatory will bring their music to
Homewood House
this spring for a series of three concerts. Each
performance in the Friday night Peabody at Homewood Concert
Series begins at 5:45 p.m. and is followed by a reception
in the wine cellar.
This week, on March 3, cellist Caleb Jones will
perform a wide range of music from classical to modern,
including Bach, Prokofiev and a work of his own
composition.
On April 7, Emily Noel, a renowned soprano, will sing
a varied program of Renaissance music accompanied by Edward
Greenhood on the lute. The Delorean String Quartet,
composed of violinists Amos Fayette and Adrienne Geisler,
violist Alexander Baldock and cellist Bonnie Obel, will
perform works by Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven on May 5.
The concerts are $12 each, or $35 for the
three-concert series, for JHU faculty and staff. For
reservations or more information, call 410-516-5589 or
email
historichouses@jhu.edu.
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