Aspen Events

Presented with Theater Masters
Join us for a fascinating panel discussion featuring ten award-winning playwrights from top Master of Fine Arts programs as well as the local High School winners of Theater Masters Aspiring Playwrights competition.  This lively discussion will be moderated by Lue Douthit of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Julia Hansen of Theater Masters.

Each year community members come together to engage in lively and rigorous dialogue around excerpts from the Great Books. This moderated eight-week series challenges participants to delve into writings that have stood the test of time from thinkers such as Aristotle, Thoreau, Plato, Sophocles and Darwin.

In this eight week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the 2012 Foreign Policy Association briefing book. This year’s topics will include Middle East realignment, promoting democracy, U.S. relations with Mexico, cybersecurity, exit from Afghanistan and Iraq, energy geopolitics and the state of the oceans, and the world economy.

Join us for this year’s exploration of the Great Books. Each year community members come together to engage in lively and rigorous dialogue using excerpts from the Great Books.  Aspen Institute senior moderator Pete Thigpen will moderate this year’s series. Pete has been a Senior Fellow and Moderator for the Aspen Institute since 1989 as well as a lecturer at the Haas School of Business, and is on the board of a number of business and nonprofit organizations. 

Fee (includes readings): $150 ($130 for Institute Donors). 

In this eight week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the 2012 Foreign Policy Association briefing book. This year’s topics will include Middle East realignment, promoting democracy, U.S. relations with Mexico, cybersecurity, exit from Afghanistan and Iraq, energy geopolitics and the state of the oceans, and the world economy.

Happiness in the Always-On Age Where is the happiest place on earth? Is there such a thing? What does happiness look like and feel like to you? Is it a busy bustling day filled with activity and communication, a quiet day in nature, helping other people, immersion in something you love to do? How do the demands of modern life and our technological connectedness impact our feelings of well-being? Scientists, sociologists, and economists are studying all of these questions and new research is emerging.

In this eight week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the 2012 Foreign Policy Association briefing book. This year’s topics will include Middle East realignment, promoting democracy, U.S. relations with Mexico, cybersecurity, exit from Afghanistan and Iraq, energy geopolitics and the state of the oceans, and the world economy.

The Great Conversation series is offered to valley residents ages 20-45 who are interested in engaging in discussions of important issues with their peers. Utilizing classic texts as the backdrop, the group delves into current issues in a moderated format that fosters a lively dialogue.

After six fun and successful years of Sharing Shakespeare, we are taking a respite from Shakespeare to offer a new program focusing on Greek Epics and Tragedies. We will resume as "Sharing Shakespeare 3.0" in the fall of 2012.

Registration for this nine month series is $195, which includes readings and refreshments at monthly meetings.

In this eight week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the 2012 Foreign Policy Association briefing book. This year’s topics will include Middle East realignment, promoting democracy, U.S. relations with Mexico, cybersecurity, exit from Afghanistan and Iraq, energy geopolitics and the state of the oceans, and the world economy.

In this eight week series, participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the 2012 Foreign Policy Association briefing book. This year’s topics will include Middle East realignment, promoting democracy, U.S. relations with Mexico, cybersecurity, exit from Afghanistan and Iraq, energy geopolitics and the state of the oceans, and the world economy.

The Great Conversation series is offered to valley residents ages 20-45 who are interested in engaging in discussions of important issues with their peers. Utilizing classic texts as the backdrop, the group delves into current issues in a moderated format that fosters a lively dialogue.

After six fun and successful years of Sharing Shakespeare, we are taking a respite from Shakespeare to offer a new program focusing on Greek Epics and Tragedies. We will resume as "Sharing Shakespeare 3.0" in the fall of 2012.

Registration for this nine month series is $195, which includes readings and refreshments at monthly meetings.

This dinner benefits the Socrates Program for emerging leaders. Dinner hosts are Tarek and Shiva Farouki, and the 2012 honorees are Gary and Laura Lauder.

The Aspen Institute Children's Forum--Investing in Children's Health and Well-being will engage philanthropists, scientists, policy-makers and healthcare practitioners to devise and advance an agenda of research, innovation and public priorities that put children first.

The Roundtable addresses how firms and organizations can leverage their assets to increase learning and access talent both within and outside the organization. It also explores issues of organizational leadership, structure, culture, and policy in light of changing information technologies.

This annual dinner benefits the work of the Aspen Institute. Honorees and dinner chairs to be announced.

Key decision makers from the telecommunications and information industries, user and consumer groups, academics, non-profit leaders, and representatives from federal, state, and local government address issues of telecommunications regulation, competition, and public policy