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October 2011 |
Featured | @ Washington, DC | @ Aspen, CO | @ NYC | @ Wye River | Around the World
Featured:
The Institute's 28th Annual Awards Dinner will take place at the Plaza Hotel in New York on November 3. This year's event will honor former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with the Henry Crown Leadership Award. Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ; Kaya Henderson, chancellor of the DC Public School System; and Joel Klein, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, are to receive the Aspen Institute Public Service Award for Leadership in Education.
Additionally, the fourth annual John P. McNulty Prize will be presented to an extraordinary young leader of the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Metropolitan Club in New York City on November 2. For more information and to RSVP, please visit our webpage.
Business & Society Program's Beyond Grey Pinstripes recently launched their 2011-2012 Top 100 MBA Program rankings, and on October 21 will celebrate the Faculty Pioneer Awards. The celebration will honor trailblazing faculty integrating social and environmental impact topics into MBA curricula, as well as schools leading the way in exposing students to this content.
Did you know that the Institute has a blog? Click below for regular installments:
Socrates Program:
Senate Socrates Seminar (Oct. 28-30): The Role of Government in the Economy, featuring co-moderators Jared Bernstein, former economic adviser to VP Joe Biden, and Bradley Belt, Milken Institute senior managing director, will take place at the Institute's Wye River campus; the opening reception will be in Washington, DC on Oct. 27.
Socrates New York Salon: The Emergence of an Impact Economy, co-moderated by Bart Houlahan, co-founder, B Lab, and Brian Trelstad, CIO, Acumen Fund, will take place Nov. 4-5
Socrates Winter Seminars: The 2012 Winter seminars in Aspen, CO will feature topics: The New Leadership of the Middle East and North Africa, moderated by Mona Eltahawy, international public speaker on Arab and Muslim Issues; The Future of Energy, moderated by Mark Brownstein, chief counsel, energy program, Environmental Defense Fund; and Social Media and Society, moderated by Stephen Balkam, founder and CEO, Family Online Safety Institute. Feb. 17-20.
For more info on all Socrates Seminars, please contact Azalea Millan.
@ Washington, DC
The 2011 Washington Ideas Forum, in partnership with The Atlantic, took place October 5-6 and featured top news headliners in American politics and journalism. Click here for coverage.
Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series: To learn more about our DC-based book talk luncheons, contact Devon Rodonets. By invitation only.
- November 8: Daniel Yergin's The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Penguin Press)
- December 6: Touré's Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to be Black Now (Free Press)
Washington Ideas Roundtable Series: To learn more about our DC-based roundtable series, contact Jeff Harris. By invitation only.
- October 19: Creativity in America, featuring George Stevens, Jr., founder of the American Film Institute, moderated by Aspen Institute Arts Program Director Damian Woetzel.
- November 28: Key Threats: US Readiness in Perilous Times, featuring Adm. Dennis Blair, former director of US National Intelligence, moderated by New York Times chief washington correspondent David Sanger.
Communications & Society Program, in partnership with the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, will convene the 6th annual Aspen Institute Symposium on Critical Issues in Journalism at the US State Department on October 25. For more info, please contact Kiahna Williams.
@ Aspen, CO:
Greek Epic and Tragedy: Foundations of Western Culture: This monthly series will explore enduring classics of early works from the Classical Greek tradition. For more info and to register, please contact Beth Slater.
@ New York, NY:
The Second Annual Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership will honor tennis legend Billie Jean King on November 30 at Hunter College. USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan to moderate.
@ Wye River:
A Conversation with Edward M. Gabriel, former US Ambassador to Morocco, on the Implications for the Revolutions of the Arab Spring. October 27 at Wye Woods. For more info, please contact Bonnie Messix.
Around the World:
Aspen Institute Arts Program, in partnership with the Asia Society's Center on
US-China Relations, announced the US-China Forum on Arts and Literature. Taking place November 16-19 in Beijing, this will be the first of an
ongoing cultural dialogue to promote mutual understanding between the two nations.
Global Initiative on Culture and Society, in partnership with the Royal Opera House Muscat of the Sultanate of Oman, will hold the first Aspen Creative Arts World Summit in Muscat, Oman, November 28-30.
Energy and Environment Program, in partnership with the Institute's partner in Prague, will hold the New Nuclear Challenge Forum in Prague, Czech Republic, December 1-2.
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Steven Brill discussed his new book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, at a Gildenhorn Book Series event. |
Other Events |
The Aspen Homeland Security Group held its public launch with Secretary Janet Napolitano and the group's co-chairs Michael Chertoff and Jane Harman. |
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Washington Post columnist and author David Ignatius at a Gildenhorn Book Series event to discuss his new thriller Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage.
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Stephen Heintz of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund helped launch the Institute's new roundtable series on philanthropy. |
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Partners for a New Beginning, the Institute's public-private alliance to foster private sector engagement with the Muslim world, hosted a discussion on the current state of the rule of law in Egypt and challenges the country faces. |
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Re-Imagining Journalism: Local News for a Networked World, the newest report from our Communications and Society Program, identifies five strategic areas and specific ideas for promoting experimentation, collaboration, and public engagement that are critical for reforming local journalism. |
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| About the Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. The Aspen Institute does this primarily in four ways: seminars, young-leader fellowships around the globe, policy programs, and public conferences and events. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners.
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