The 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival

June 26, 2013 - July 2, 2013
Aspen, CO

For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please visit www.aspenideas.org.

Energy Policy Forum

July 3, 2013 - July 7, 2013
Aspen, CO
Energy and Environment Program

Society of Fellows Luncheon: What is the Viability of a Carbon Tax?

July 5, 2013
Aspen, CO

This event is offered exclusively to Society of Fellows supporters. 

2013 Socrates Summer Seminars

July 5, 2013 - July 8, 2013
Aspen, CO

The Aspen Institute Socrates Program invites you to join us in Aspen, CO for an exciting weekend of learning and winter activities over 4th of July weekend, July 5-8. 2013. Registration and scholarship applications for Winter Socrates are now available online.

2013 Socrates Program Dinner

July 6, 2013
Aspen, CO

This dinner is a benefit for the Socrates Program for Emerging Leaders. The discussion “"Breaking Borders in the Digital Age" features Jared Cohen, Founder and Director of Google Ideas, in conversation with Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. Dinner chairs are Peter Hirshberg, Adib & Kerry Nasle, Marsha Ralls and Bill Resnick, and the honoree is Arjun Gupta.

Teacher Leaders Fellowship Program, Class IV

July 7, 2013 - July 11, 2013
Aspen, CO
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Scribes & Scribblers - Picture Your Words, Session I

July 8, 2013 - July 12, 2013
Aspen, CO
Aspen Writers' Foundation

Session One:
Ages 6 - 8 (limited to 12 students)
Cost $300
Instructor: Tom Alpern

Aspen Institute Roundtable on Institutional Innovation

July 8, 2013 - July 10, 2013
Aspen, CO
Communications and Society Program

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 and communications technologies.

Society of Fellows Discussion Reception: Back From the Brink: Resolving the Debt Crisis

July 8, 2013
Aspen, CO

This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows supporters. 

Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS)

July 10, 2013 - July 13, 2013
Aspen, CO
Communications and Society Program

At the annual Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS), participants develop strategies for using new information and communications technologies for the greater benefit of society. More on FOCAS.

International Business Summit on the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

July 10, 2013 - July 12, 2013
Aspen, CO
Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century

A high-level, two-day conference to assist in developing broad concensus in the industrial sector for the Transatlantic Partnership. Sessions will focus on manufacturing sector and be designed to build consensus on negotiating objectives and political support for the Partnership.

Justice and Society Seminar

July 11, 2013 - July 17, 2013
Aspen, CO
Justice and Society Program

Seminar moderators are Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and Michael Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Society of Fellows One Day Symposium: An Inclusive America: Does Religion Still Divide Us?

July 11, 2013
Aspen, CO

This Society of Fellows symposium will address an overview of historical and contemporary religious diversity in the United States, the intersection of religious tolerance and an open democracy, and prospects for the near future. The program, spanning one morning and one afternoon, will feature preparatory readings, lecture, and moderated discussion.

Society of Fellows Vanguard Discussion Reception: Empowering the Poor in the Digital Age

July 11, 2013
Aspen, CO

Featuring Leila Janah, Founder and CEO, Samasource. This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows Vanguard Chapter supporters.

Society of Fellows Luncheon: Voices for the Victims: Justice for Women and Girls who have Suffered Abuse

July 12, 2013
Aspen, CO

Featuring Malika Saada Saar, executive director, Rights4Girls, and The Hon. Ruth McGregor, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, in conversation with Meryl Chertoff, director, Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program. This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows supporters.

22nd Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology

July 14, 2013 - July 17, 2013
Aspen, CO
Communications and Society Program

The Roundtable is a private seminar of 25-30 business executives, government leaders and visionaries where participants examine the implications of emerging information technologies on societies, governments, communities, and individuals, and the new leadership roles that are required.

Aspen Business & Society Leaders Forum

July 14, 2013 - July 17, 2013
Aspen, CO
Business and Society Program

The Aspen Business & Society Leaders Forum engages, by invitation, senior executives pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable company. The Forum is a working platform for business leaders in global firms that have significant capacity to address complex societal problems —that rebound to the business environment.

Scribes & Scribblers - Picture Your Words, Session II

July 15, 2013 - July 19, 2013
Aspen, CO
Aspen Writers' Foundation

Session Two
Ages 9 - 11 (limited to 12 students)
Cost $300
Instructor: Tom Alpern

Scribes & Scribblers - The Art of Books and Words

July 15, 2013 - July 19, 2013
Basalt, CO
Aspen Writers' Foundation

Co-presented by Aspen Writers’ Foundation and Wyly Community Art Center
Ages 7-10 (limited to 12 students)
Cost $300 + $30 materials

Instructor: Guinevere Jones

Society of Fellows Discussion Reception

July 15, 2013
Aspen, CO

This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows supporters.

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