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Event Overview
From sunup to sundown, Aspen Ideas packs hundreds of fascinating discussions into ten days, with more than 3,000 attendees.
About the Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Ideas Festival promises to be thought-provoking, meaningful and fun — true to Aspen tradition. Find out more about it's history.
2020
Program Tracks
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In a time when our nation is deeply divided, we have to ask: will the American Idea survive?
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Boardrooms across America are rethinking the role of purpose.
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How do artists and cultural leaders impact the way we see the world and our role in it?
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Twenty years into the 21st century, the contours of a new global order have emerged.
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Where would progress originate if we settled comfortably into the daily march of our established conventions?
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Should beauty be the goal of art? And why can’t we just love the skin we’re in?
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A deep dive into one country whose expanding posture abroad and tightening grip at home is changing everything.
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How will we lift up all women — across racial and socioeconomic differences?
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Exploring what we can learn in the dark corners of life.
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The air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water on which we rely is all at risk.
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Science is an engine of human prosperity that’s a driving force in not only our wellbeing, but the survival of our species.
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Exploring humankind’s complex relationship with technology.
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While struggling American families face the stresses of housing insecurity, 70 million refugees around the world are on the move and in need of shelter.
Featured speakers
Ahmane’ Glover is co-director of The Sanctuaries, an interfaith arts community in Washington, DC, that activates leaders to innovate arts-based strategies to transform social...
Jessi Alexander is a country music singer/songwriter. Her career took off when she won the local Grammy Best Unsigned Artist Contest in 2001, then released her debut album, Ho...
Tara Westover is a memoirist, essayist, and historian, known for her internationally best-selling memoir, Educated. One of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018, it was s...
Metsehate Ayenekulu is the Adolescents 360 program director at Population Services International in Ethiopia. A public health and gender expert, she leads a program that teach...
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