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Supporting Moms: The Case for Investing in Childcare Blog Post Exploring the Nation's Need for Quality, Affordable Care May 10, 2013 More »	The Best Mother's Day Gift: Women's Empowerment Blog Post The Former Prime Minister of Norway Reflects on What to Teach Our Daughters More »	Dispatches from the Morning and Afternoon Sessions of New York Ideas Blog Post Highlights from the day's forum with cutting-edge innovators More »
WATCH: Elizabeth Diller Speaks on Citizenship Architecture Blog Post The Washington Ideas Roundtable Hosts Diller in Conversation with Damian Woetzel More »	Google Duo Discuss The New Digital Age at the Institute Blog Post Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Discuss Their New Book More »	A new report from the 2012 Roundtable on Institutional Innovation Publication By integrating the core of an organization with the edge, where innovation is more likely to happen, we can create dynamic, learning networks. More »

Promoting Physical Literacy as a Way to Get People Moving Blog Post Robin Schepper Reflects on the Aspen Institute's Project Play Summit and Looks Ahead More »	Congratulations to this year's Case Competition Winners The Competition encourages MBA students to think innovatively about the role of business in solving our world's most pressing issues. More »	Next at the Aspen Institute: May 2013 Blog Post Upcoming Events and Live Streams More »
Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellows Act on Behalf of One of Their Own Blog Post Fellows Rally for Africa Leadership Initiative Fellow Bheki Makbuhu In Far-Reaching Contempt of Court Case More »	Aspen Italia Vice President Named Prime Minister of Italy Blog Post Aspen Italia Claims Five of Six Former Prime Ministers as Members More »	Evaluating Teachers So that Everyone Wins Blog Post Evaluating Evaluations: Using Teacher Surveys to Strengthen Implementation Read the Report More »

After Boston: Pausing for Reflection on Interfaith Issues Blog Post The Inclusive America Project Meets at the Institute to Prepare Its Upcoming White Paper More »	WATCH: The Aspen Institute's Project Play Launches Blog Post Olympians and Paralympians Gather to Discuss the Importance of Sports to Society More »	Symposium on The State of Race in America Program New attitudes, opportunities, and challenges for and about people of color in 21st century U.S. Communications and Society Program More »
Aspen Global Health and Development welcomes Professor Yunus Blog Post Watch the Nobel Laureate's lecture live Friday at 12:30pm ET More »	Three Aspen Challenge Teams Advance to Aspen Ideas Festival Blog Post The Los Angeles Unified School District Completes the Institute's Newest Project More »	Winter Words 2013 - Cheryl Strayed Video From the 2013 Winter Words Festival. Presented by the Aspen Writers' Foundation April 12, 2013 More »

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2012 Socrates in Cuba: "The Making of Modern Cuba," Blog Post Socrates participants joined local scholars to discuss and explore the factors shaping modern Cuba. Socrates Program More »	2013 Seminar for Mid-America Foundation CEOs Event 2013 Seminar for Mid-America Foundation CEOs in Aspen, CO June 24-26, 2013 More »	Racial Equity & Society Seminars Program The seminars are designed to create a critical mass of “new voices” for racial equity. More »
2011 Winter Seminars Event Bioethics; Creating Sustainable Communities; and Immigration and the Challenge of Crime on the Southern Border More »	Mid-America Foundation CEOs Seminar Mid-America Foundation CEOs Seminar Event The seminar engages foundation leaders in a dialogue about the issues facing their organizations, the communities they serve and the field of philanthropy. More »	The Aspen Seminar and Alumni Seminars Seminar on leadership, values, and the good society has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply about the good society. More »

Wye Deans' Seminar College and university faculty, deans, provosts, and presidents renew their commitment to liberal education in a specially-designed week-long program. More »	Wye Faculty Seminar College and university faculty are challenged to explore the meaning of liberal education in the 21st century. More »	Teen Socrates 2013 Event Restless Minds: Art, Ethics, Freedom February 16-18, 2013 More »
Madrid Socrates Seminar April 25 - 28, 2013 Event With moderators Jeff Rosen and Jack Goldstone Socrates Seminars Program More »	Los Angeles Socrates Salon February 22-23, 2013 Event Featuring Geneva Overholser, professor and director of USC Annenberg's School of Journalism Socrates Seminars Program More »	Justice and Society Seminar Program Every summer the Justice and Society Seminar brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds to discuss what we mean by justice More »

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Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation Event Launch event for the Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation May 14, 2013 More »	Skills Gap in Manufacturing Event Discussion exploring the skills gap in manufacturing and efforts to address the problem. May 15, 2013 More »	Aspen Institute Initiative on Smart Energy and Network Technologies (INSENT) Event Aspen Institute Initiative on Smart Energy and Network Technologies (INSENT) May 15-17, 2013 More »
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times Event More »	Improving Retirement Security: Expanding Coverage to All Americans Event RSVP More »	Africa Leadership Initiative - South Africa, Class VII Event Seminar 4/4: The Promise of Leadership May 17, 2013 - May 21, 2013 More »

Chicago Socrates Salon Event "Heroes and Villains, Winners and Losers: Leading Business, Politics, and Civil Society in the 21st Century" May 17-18, 2013 More »	Aspen at Roosevelt House: "Preparing for the Next Perfect Storm" Event Featuring Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy, with Andrew Revkin of The New York Times May 20, 2013 More »	From Athens to Aspen: May 2013 The Beautiful and the Good Event May 20: Fincino, Select Letters and Schiller, On the Sublime From Athens to Aspen Series More »
Italy, Europe and the Prospects for Recovery Aspen European Dialogue - International Conference Event More »	Assessing the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Advocate for Change Event Discussing a coalition assessment tool designed by Innovation Network to assess changes in coalition capacity over time May 22, 2013 More »	The 2013 Resolve Award Celebration Event Delivering on the Promise of Universal Access to Reproductive Health May 22, 2013 More »

WHO Global Code: Stoking Up the Fire for Implementation Event In Geneva, Switzerland May 22, 2013 More »	Africa Leadership Initiative - South Africa, Class VIII Event Seminar 2/4: The Aspen Seminar May 23, 2013 - May 28, 2013 More »	Aspen Leadership Series: Science Literacy and Our Future Event A Conversation with Brian Greene May 23, 2013 More »
Racial Equity Leadership Development Seminar Event The New Voices for Racial Equity Leadership Seminar convened by the Roundtable on Community Change May 28-June 1, 2013 More »	The 4th Ascend Fellows Forum Event Continuing impact on the lives of vulnerable families May 28-31, 2013 More »	Aspen Wye Fellows with Jason Beaubien Event Discussion on health epidemics facing humanity today, particularly in developing countries May 29, 2013 More »

A Conversation with Renée Fleming Video Interviewer: Damian Woetzel, dancer and Director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program. April 17, 2013 More »	WATCH: Google's Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen Video On their new book "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Businesses". More »	Prof. Muhammad Yunus on Social Business Video Ending Poverty, Unemployment, and Lack of Health April 19, 2013 More »
Next Steps in the Work-Family Revolution Video Featuring Anne-Marie Slaughter and Charles Kenny Aspen, CO More »	Leaning in with Child Care Video A Discussion on Childcare Jobs and the Need for Quality, Affordable Care More »	State of Race 2013: Welcome and Opening Remarks Video Welcome and Introduction by Charles M. Firestone, Aspen Institute. Remarks by David L. Cohen, Comcast Corporation April 22, 2013 More »

State of Race 2013: Concluding Remarks Video By Historian and Author Taylor Branch April 22, 2013 More »	State of Race 2013: Panel on Youth Video Featuring: Christina Downs, Kristal High, Victor Rios, Lisa Wong and Ray Suarez April 26, 2013 More »	State of Race 2013: Media and Popular Culture Panel Video With Panelists: Anna Deavere Smith, Brian Yang, Thomas Chatterton Williams and José Díaz-Balart April 22, 2013 More »
State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race Video Featuring Paul Taylor, Pew Research Center April 22, 2013 More »	State of Race 2013: The Impact of Faith-based Communities on Race Video Featuring Abed Awad, Ralph Reed, Jasjit Singh, and Juan Williams More »	Astronaut Jeff Ashby at the Aspen Challenge Video February 22, 2013 More »

A Conversation with Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Video Featuring Michelle Kwan, Sarah Reinertsen and others. April 11, 2013 More »	Winter Words 2013 - Cheryl Strayed Video From the 2013 Winter Words Festival. Presented by the Aspen Writers' Foundation April 12, 2013 More »	Winter Words 2013 - Gretel Ehrlich Video February 20, 2013 More »
Mobilizing the Diaspora: Opportunities for Engagement in N. Africa Video Roundtable 2: Access to Finance and Investment April 16, 2013 More »	Mobilizing the Diaspora: Opportunities for Engagement in N. Africa Video Roundtable 1: Mentoring and Education Opportunities April 16, 2013 More »	The Future of Egypt's Economy Video Roundtable discussion on Egypt's economic challenges and opportunities to overcome them April 16, 2013 More »

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