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Ever wonder what gets the staff of the Aspen Ideas Festival talking (and thinking)? Looking for your next great read or binge-worthy watch during the holidays? The 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival Staff Picks are here! Think of it as a backstage pass to the pop culture we loved this year — shows and movies we devoured, books we got lost in, music that moved us, podcasts that kept...
Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about big ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival and other events presented by the Aspen Institute. The views and opinions of the speakers in the podcast do not necessar...
Sir Ken Robinson believed that as a society, we tragically underestimate and underutilize human ability. We create linear systems for our minds modeled on industry and manufacturing, and we fail to honor the nonlinear imagination and creativity inside all of us.
As the Aspen Ideas Festival wraps up its 20th year, we’re excited to share the 20 most-watched sessions from our June gathering. Our speakers addressed today’s biggest issues, from building responsible A.I. and addressing humanitarian crises around the world to healing social divides and reforming the criminal justice system. We also covered topics that are simply fascinat...
Aspen Ideas: Health has partnered with the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower to offer continuing education credits for healthcare providers, dietitians, and social workers who attend our 2025 event.
By creating a forum to share knowledge and experience, Aspen Ideas: Health offers a unique opportunity to turn ideas into action and carve pathways toward better health for all. Join us!
Scientific and clinical advances, political upheaval, natural and manmade disasters, even a radical new idea can all spark seismic change. Attracting hope and mistrust in equal measure, such shake-ups can force us to challenge assumptions, question cultural norms, and contemplate the impact on our families, communities, and planet. Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 brings together...
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Scholars are still uncovering information about Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and its era of slavery, piecing together how the wealth generated from these atrocities shaped the nation’s history. For some descendants, this means just now learning about their families’ roles in and benefits from these horrors. Where do we go from here, and what would...
As we wrap-up another year of elevating big ideas at Aspen Ideas: Health, we're excited to share the 15 most-watched sessions from the event. These conversations with inspiring leaders, innovators, and advocates sparked our community's curiosity on topics ranging from longevity and mental health to AI and gene editing. Explore and share to continue the celebration of bold...
Each year brings more destructive natural disasters and growing evidence of the challenging future we face if we don’t address climate change. But the biggest cause of climate-related deaths is one that’s hard to see and hardly talked about. Extreme heat killed more than 2,000 people in the United States in 2023 and put intense stress on millions as they faced high costs o...
The Aspen Ideas Festival brings brilliant leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today.
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The Aspen Ideas Festival will be held June 25 – July 1, 2025. Join us on our art-filled campus in Aspen, Colorado.
We come together the last week in June to reflect on the meaning and conditions of human flourishing. We do not seek simple answers to complex questions. We do seek a dialogue conscious of our sameness and differences, our pluralism and our common purposes. Our dialogue is an act of faith in one another.
Young people in America are struggling. The causes are varied and may not be entirely clear, but the results are unfortunately unmistakable. Many of our youth feel lonely, isolated or depressed and struggle to see a future where they can buy a house, have a family or feel connected to their community. The two panelists in this talk from the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival bring...
Join big thinkers and innovative doers at Aspen Ideas: Health 2023 (June 21-24)!