March

March 7

2005 Global Vision Award Nominations Due

Please email your submission to [email protected] by 5 p.m.

March

March 10
Thursday

4:30 p.m.

Executive Committee Meeting
2005 Global Vision Award Recipient
Columbia World Affairs Council Office
2218 Devine Street
Columbia, SC

March

March 15
Tuesday

6:00 p.m.

Moore School of Business Lumpkin Auditorium, 8th Floor

RSVP REQUIRED!!!

Distinguished Speakers Series
Transatlantic Tensions & Global Security

Mary Warlick, Director of the Office of Russian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, will be visiting Columbia to participate in a symposium on international relations between the US and Russia, which is being held shortly after the Putin-Bush Summit. Other participants include Dr. Gordon Smith, Director of the Walker Institute for International Studies and Andrei Maxiemko, Russian Expert and Professor at Benedict College.

Join us in the Lumpkin Auditorium (8th Floor) in the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Admission to the symposium is FREE and open to the public. A World Affairs Council of Columbia member only reception will be held following the symposium.

The reception is FREE for World Affairs Council current members, Walker Institute staff, Fowler Communications staff and their guests. Space is limited so RSVP today.

March

March 16
Wednesday

5:15 p.m.

Reservations Required before 5 p.m. March 15th.

International Trivia Networking Happy Hour!
Jillian's in the Vista!

Bring a team of up to four or meet new people and join a team there!

2005 new members and their guests FREE.  Members who bring a guest FREE. $5 for members payable in check, cash , Visa or Mastercard the night of the event. 

March

March 22
Tuesday

6:00 p.m.

2930 Devine Street

A Taste of the World - Arabian Nights
Al Amir Downtown
Cost: $20 for members/$26 for nonmembers

Your tastebuds will take a magic carpet ride through multiple appetizers, salads and entrees in their new banquet room.

March

March 30
Wednesday

11 a.m. -
1 p.m.

1630 Old Dunbar Road,
West Columbia

International Corporate Tour Series
The Loxcreen Company Inc.

Cost: FREE for Diplomat & Ambassador members. $5 for Envoy members. $10 for nonmembers (includes lunch).

March

March 31
Thursday

4:00 p.m.

Moore School of Business Room 008

Distinguished Speakers Series - “Global Economic Environment”

Mr. Ilian Mihov, Associate Professor of Economics, INSEAD and Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the Columbia (NYC) Business School will be discussing China, Japan, US current account deficit, depreciation of the dollar and possibly more at the Moore School of Business room 008 at 4 p.m on March 31 st. This is a free event!