Upcoming Events

Approximately half of Americans have no workplace retirement savings plan. As policymakers consider how to enhance retirement security for American households, this Congressional briefing will focus on the imperative to first expand coverage in order to make saving for retirement easier for all American workers.

"Heroes and Villains, Winners and Losers: Leading Business, Politics, and Civil Society in the 21st Century"

Join us for this exciting new series! Over two years the group will explore six paired themes—perennial human themes which have shaped our world—as they have been taken up from Athens to Aspen, that is, from the ancient period to our contemporary age. Each of the following six paired themes will receive three sessions of discussion with texts drawn from different genres and different periods of human experience: ancient, medieval/renaissance, modern, and post-modern: Friendship and Love (October – December 2012), Authors: Aristotle and Cicero; Aquinas and Montaigne; Emerson and Weil. Law and Justice (January – March 2013), Authors: Plato and Aristotle; Calvin and Shakespeare; Rawls, Arendt, and Hopkins. The Beautiful and the Good (April – June 2013), Authors: Plato and Augustine; Ficino and Schiller; Hawthorne and Rothko. Tragedy and Death (September – November 2013), Authors: Seneca and Montaigne; Nietzsche and Shakespeare; Strauss. Truth and Knowledge (December 2013 – February 2014), Authors: Plato and Lucretius; Bacon and Descartes; Derrida and Stoppard. History and Transcendence (March – May 2014), Authors: Plotinus and Augustine; Kant and Hegel; Eliot and Ortega y Gasset.

Monday evenings 6:30-9:00pm. October 2012-June 2013 
Registration Fee: $225, includes readings and refreshments.  

Research has shown that high-capacity coalitions are more successful in effecting community change. While a number of coalition assessment tools have been developed, documentation is scarce regarding how they are implemented, how the results are used, and whether they are predictive of coalition success in collaborative community change efforts.

Background

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in his field of superstring theory.

Seminar 4/4: The Promise of Leadership

Seminar 2/4: The Aspen Seminar

Each year, ANDE members gather in Washington, DC to discuss common challenges and solutions for metrics & evaluation. The diverse group includes investors, capacity development providers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who represent organizations on the forefront of innovation and rigor in impact evaluation. Participants learn from each other, hear from experts in the field, and drive the future of impact evaluation for the SGB space.

The Aspen Institute launches a new Food Security Strategy Group with an inaugural dialogue in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Established in 1976, Aspen Summer Words (ASW) is a trailblazing festival of words, stories and ideas held each June in Aspen, Colorado.

Co-presented by Aspen Writers’ Foundation and Theatre Aspen
Ages 10-14 (limited to 12 students)

Instructor: Lynn Aliya

Learn the ins and outs of writing for the stage. Use improvisation and theatrical storytelling techniques to create new material, and turn written stories into dramatic works. Show off your material in a staged reading at the end of camp.

This unique symposium, offered in collaboration with the Aspen Music Festival and School, will explore the ongoing resonance of The Great American Songbook. This program, offered over one morning and afternoon, will explore the nuances and impact of the Great American Songbook, as well as an in-depth exploration of the musicians who brought this music to life.

The ANDE Investment Manager Training is an intensive five day course which covers all aspects of investing in SGBs –- from deal sourcing and due diligence to exit strategies. More information can be found here: http://ande.site-ym.com/?IMTKenya2013

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

This event is offered exclusively to Society of Fellows supporters. 

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.

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

This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows supporters. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To answer critical questions about America's preparedness for terrorism, the Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program, in partnership with The New York Times and CNN’s Security Clearance website, presents the fourth annual Aspen Security Forum, July 17-20, 2013, for three days of in-depth discussions at our Aspen Meadows campus in Aspen, Colorado.

Discover the popular medium of digital animation and transform your imaginative stories into video masterpieces. This weeklong workshop teaches students how to write, direct, animate, and edit their own short stories using studio art materials and digital video technology.

A new era of global communications has jolted international relations. Citizen-to-citizen communication, once engaged in pen and paper, is now instantly viral on the Internet. This dialogue will explore the important issues marking the intersection of diplomacy and technology.

Featuring Alec Ross, former State Department Senior Innovation Advisor. In conjunction with the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program. This event is exclusively offered to Society of Fellows supporters.

A global conversation focused on the unique role that each dialogue participant can play in shaping the future of capitalism.

The Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries seeks to address the need to rethink, realign and transform libraries for the digital society.

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 communications regulation, competition and public policy.

For almost 60 years, this premier roundtable has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply. The seminar is a unique opportunity to step away from the demands of the present and reflect with other leaders in moderated, text-based Socratic dialogue on the concept of a good and just society: What is it? How does it become a reality?

Molly Williamson, leading expert on US foreign policy towards the Middle East, will join Aspen Wye Fellows on Friday, September 13, 2013.

Ascend at the Aspen Institute is a hub for breakthrough ideas and proven strategies that move children and their parents beyond poverty toward educational success and economic security.

For almost 60 years, this premier roundtable has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply. The seminar is a unique opportunity to step away from the demands of the present and reflect with other leaders in moderated, text-based Socratic dialogue on the concept of a good and just society: What is it? How does it become a reality?

This is the second meeting of the Aspen Institute Dialogue on the Future of Libraries which seeks to address the need to rethink, realign and transform libraries for the digital society.

Philosophy and Practice. By invitation only.