2007 & 2008 Event Video

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• Special Event Featuring T. Boone Pickens on "The Pickens Plan" T. Boone Pickens is currently the chairman and CEO of BP Capital, which operates energy focused commodity and equity funds. Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (August 15, 2008)
  
  
• Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and renowned political commentator, spoke about her book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (HarperCollins). Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (July 30, 2008)
  
  
• Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, and Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of The Aspen Institute, discussed issues of the day and her new book, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (HarperCollins). Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (July 29, 2008)
  
  
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama in conversation with Pico Iyer and Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute. Watch videos. (July 25, 2008)
  
  
• Christopher Buckley, an American political satirist, former chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush, and the author of several novels, discussed "What's in a Title?" Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (July 22)
  
  
• Jordan's King Abdullah discusses America's "critical role as a partner to its friends and a powerful champion of the goals we share." Watch the video: quicktime. Listen to the mp3. (July 21, 2008)
  
  
• Tom Korologos, a former senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and immediate past US Ambassador to Belgium, spoke on "Iraq: A Perspective 5 Years Later." Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (July 15, 2008)
  
  
• Part of the Arts & Ideas Series symposium, Enchantment in Tunes and Tales, reflected on the wonders of Hans Christian Andersen and the role of enchantment and story-telling in life. Panelists Diana and Jeffrey Frank, Alan Fletcher, and James Conlon. Watch the video. Listen to the mp3. (July 12, 2008)
  
• The 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival, hosted in partnership with The Atlantic, engaged its participants in a variety of events in an atmosphere of vibrant intellectual exchange. Watch excerpts from each day's programs.
  
  
• Author Julia Reed Reveals the Characters and Stories of Post-Katrina New Orleans. Watch the video: quicktime. Listen to the mp3. (June 24, 2008)
  
  
• Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf) and Professor of History at George Mason University, spoke on Hiroshima's Shadow: The First Nuclear World and Ours. Watch the video (quicktime); listen to the audio (mp3). (June 24, 2008)
  
  
• Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier Discuss "America Between the Wars." Watch the video: quicktime, windows media. Listen to the mp3. (June 16, 2008)
  
  
• Journalist/Author Robin Wright Describes Tomorrow's Middle East. Read more. Watch the video: quicktime, windows media. (June 3, 2008)
  
  
• What Makes a Successful President? featuring Moderator Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News; Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, former presidential advisor David Gergen, and others. Full video: quicktime, windows media video (May 19, 2008)
  
  

• Princeton University History Professor Sean Wilentz shared his views on Ronald Reagan's legacy as explored in his new book, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (Harper), in the May installment of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series: Quicktime, Windows Media. (May 7, 2008)

• Watch The President and the Constitution, featuring moderator Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent; former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: quicktime, windows media video. (April 7, 2008)

• The Jazz and Democracy Seminar and Concert examines jazz as a quintessential American art form. Featuring Bill Charlap, Grammy Award nominated jazz pianist and Jim Horowitz- President, CEO, Founder and Executive Producer of Jazz Aspen Snowmass and professional jazz pianist, vocalist and teacher: video on Plum TV (March 14, 2008)

• Aspen Institute VP Mickey Edwards critiques today's conservative movement: quicktime, windows media video (March 11, 2008)

• Watch The President and Civil Rights, featuring Moderator Ellis Cose, Newsweek Contributing Editor; historian Taylor Branch, legal scholar Kathleen Sullivan: quicktime, windows media video. (March 5, 2008)

• Author and historian Sean Wilentz sits down with Plum TV to discuss his involvement with the Socrates Society Seminar, a biannual forum that explores the challenges facing modern leadership. (February 27, 2008)

• Former CIA director James Woolsey caught up with Plum TV to discuss his lecture "Energy in the 21st Century" for the Socrates Society Seminar, a biannual forum that explores the challenges facing modern leadership. (February 24, 2008)

• Atlantic Media Political Director Ronald Brownstein Explores the Causes of Today’s Political Partisanship: quicktime, windows media video (February 19, 2008)

• Watch The President At War featuring: Moderator Tom Brokaw, NBC News; historians David M. Kennedy and Joan Hoff: quicktime, windows media video. (January 14, 2008)

• Bestselling Biographer Sally Bedell Smith Reveals New Insights into Clintons (quicktime, windows media video. (December 12, 2007)

• Florence: Birthplace of the Modern World (quicktime, windows media video) (December 9 - 11, 2007)

• Historian Joe Ellis Discusses New Book on Founding Fathers. (quicktime, windows media video). (November 15, 2007)

• Dr. Lee Bycel on “Global Responsibility: Caring for people around the world: Responsibility, Choice, or Imperative?” (quicktime, windows media player). (November 7, 2007)

• The Aspen Health Forum Keynote Address: HIV and the World (quicktime, windows media video). (October 5, 2007)

• Author Jim Gaines discusses his new book, For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (W.W. Norton) (quicktime, windows media video). (October 2, 2007)

• Greg Behrman, author of The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe (Free Press, August 2007), speaks about the Marshall Plan and its relevance today (quicktime, windows media video). (September 18, 2007)

• India in an Era of Globalization, a panel discussion featuring members of the India Leadership Initiative (quicktime, windows media video). (September 13, 2007)

• South Africa in an Era of Globalization, a panel discussion featuring members of the Africa Leadership Initiative (quicktime, windows media video). (September 11, 2007)

• William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, the third largest police department in the US, spoke on "Policying Terrorism" (quicktime, windows media video). (August 23, 2007)

• Republican Presidential candidate John McCain spoke in Aspen as part of the McCloskey Speaker Series (quicktime, windows media video). (August 15, 2007)

• Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards spoke in Aspen as part of the McCloskey Speaker Series (quicktime, windows media video). (August 9, 2007)

• "Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World," with Ambassador Dennis Ross, counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former US emissary to the Middle East peace process during both the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations (quicktime, windows media video). (August 7, 2007)

• This year the Institute honored former US Senator John Danforth (R-MO) and Nobel Laureate Dr. James Watson with its 2007 Public Service Awards (quicktime, windows media video). (August 4, 2007)

• "The Coming Transformation of Government," with Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and well-known as architect of the "Contract with America" that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the US House for the first time in 40 years. (quicktime, windows media video). (August 3, 2007)

• "A Country That Works: Putting America Back on Track," with Andrew L. Stern, international president of Service Employees International Union, the nation’s largest and fastest growing union. (quicktime, windows media video). (July 31, 2007)

• Mahler & Freud Panel: "An Overture to Examining Creativity in Mahler, Freud, and their Vienna" (quicktime, windows media video) July 21, 2007)

• Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of The Aspen Institute, who discusses his latest book, Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster; April, 2007). (quicktime, windows media video). (July 17, 2007)

• Shashi Tharoor, award–winning author, former United Nations undersecretary-general for Communications and Public Information, and official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, on ""Globalization, Terrorism and the Human Imagination." (quicktime, windows media video). (July 10, 2007)

• 2007 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Jessye Norman Describes Her Vision of Excellence. Actor, playwright, and 2006 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Anna Deavere Smith interviewed world-class soprano and 2007 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Jessye Norman about her extraordinary life, her music, and her vision of excellence at the annual “Words and Music” event, a collaboration with the Aspen Music Festival and School. The conversation was followed by suites from Walton’s Façade: An Entertainment, performed by music students. Watch the video: quicktime, windows media video. Listen: mp3(June 28, 2007)
  
  

• Dr. Luann Brizendine, MD on "The Female Brain." (quicktime, windows media video). (June 26, 2007)

• "The Power of Cartoons" Panel Discussion featured the "Fab Four" from The Power of Cartoons: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists Mike Peters and Mike Luckovich; Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker; and cartoon historian, Marian Peters discussed how political cartoons shape opinion (quicktime, windows media video). (June 18, 2007)

• The 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival offered its participants a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, and discussion events that include some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world. Watch excerpts from each day's programs.

• Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson  (Quicktime, Windows Media Player) Speaks about Einstein's Life and Science (April 20, 2007)

• Novelist Kurt Andersen (Quicktime, Windows Media Player) on America in 1848 and Writing Historical Fiction (March 21, 2007)

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Quicktime, Windows Media Player) Speaks to Packed Institute about Importance of Studying African-American Genealogy (February 27, 2007)

• Author Andrew Sullivan (Quicktime, Windows Media Player) Defines Conservatism of the 21st Century at Aspen Institute Book Talk (January 24, 2007)