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7:30 PM Why Copenhagen? What the science is telling uuss about how much we needneed to do about climate changechange,, and how fast (ticket not required) Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren explains the President’s energy and climate positions, and enunciates a sense of urgency regarding the completion of domestic climate-policy legislation prior to the upcoming UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen later this year. John Holdren Doerr Hosier Center

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7:30pm Creating Art Out of Reality: One Evening, One Ticket Aspen District Theatre

Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett The evening will begin with a concert and conversation with Peter Buffett, the Emmy Award-winning composer and musician. While Buffett has remained behind the scenes as a composer of jingles, movie soundtracks, and atmospheric sound collections for the majority of his career, he began experimenting with vocals and a more eclectic new wave sound in recent years. Buffett is a composer, storyteller, activist, and philanthropist, and his work crosses all formats and genres and grooves together. All of his work supports important causes, as he will share with the audience after his concert. A special evening is in store with Peter Buffett on the piano, joined by renowned cellist, Michael Kott. Peter Buffett Michael Kott

Theatrical Performance and Discussion: SEVEN Introduction by Jane Harman SEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries. The lives of these women provide a portal through which audiences will be able to experience a diversity of cultures while bearing witness to the varied ways in which individual women have overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles to justice, freedom, and equality. Panel Introduction by Alyse Nelson Marina Pisklakova Mu Sochua Moderator: Anna Deavere Smith

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DARWIN ’S LEGACY WORLD AFFAIRS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Books for Breakfast Series : BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST SERIES : Charles Darwin vs. Himself: David Smick: The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to The Secret Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary the Global Economy How did Darwin navigate the tension between his very Described by Times columnist David Brooks private character and very public work life? Especially as “astonishingly prescient,” David Smick’s The World instructive is the tension between Darwin’s caution Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The and his honesty: Darwin was a cautious man by World Is Flat left off. Smick describes the underside of nature, shy and reclusive, but also ferociously honest globalization, and the financial dangers looming just in the intellectual, philosophical, and scientific arenas. over the horizon. He argues that the economic model It made him miserable—and it made him heroic. under which the world has been operating has crash- David Quammen landed – and it’s time for a new financial doctrine for the twenty-first century. David Smick Jerome Hotel Ballroom

12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH DISCUSSIONS :

THE MEDIA CRACK -UP JUSTICE AND SOCIETY Why I Human Rights and Civil Society Two of the Web’s most widely read bloggers reveal Independent civil society groups are at the front lines what draws them to the craft, how it is different from of change in their own societies. But in many places previous writing formats, the unique payoffs and perils where they are needed most, they face intimidation by of the blogosphere, and how it is evolving. government and private actors intent on preserving Ta’NTa’Neeeehhhhiiiisisi Coates the status quo. How do advocates for human rights operate in these challenging environments? Human Rights First leader Elisa Massimino discusses these issues with Mu Sochua, Cambodia’s minister of women’s affairs, and Marina Pisklakova, an activist in Russia hell-bent on offering a better life to women who suffer at the hands of their husbands (one in four); both of these valiant leaders share a commitment to combating human-trafficking in their respective countries and to raising global awareness. Marina Pisklakova Mu Sochua Moderator: Elisa Massimino Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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INSPIRED ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANAGING PLANET EARTH What Do I Do? Spirited Ideas that Will Change the Strategic Pillars of Future Mobility World How do we innovate in a downsized economy? A top Kickstart uses innovative tools, technology, and the engineer explains why we can’t stop now: the market to develop a cost-effective and sustainable technologies that mass consumers have come to way to help families lift themselves out of poverty. expect begin at the high end of the market. A Peter Buffett and Akon collaborate on music to inspire fascinating and rare interview with an automotive people to take action and make a difference. The I leader who describes why luxury vehicles do more Live Here Foundation tells stories from the unheard than serve the very rich: they drive critical innovations and silenced victims of violence and trafficking around in safety, fuel economy, and sustainability. the world. The founders of these incredible Bharat Balasubramanian organizations discuss their work and ideas. Interviewer: Csaba Csere Martin Fisher Peter Buffett Mia Kirshner Moderator: Jane Wales

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8:00pm Film Screening and Discussion: Food, IncInc.... How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc. , filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. Robert Kenner Moderator: CorbCorbyy Kummer Paepcke Auditorium

8:30pm THE MEDIA CRACK -UP What’s the News Worth to You? Where do YOU get your news? Do you pay for it? Take it for granted? Read the paper? Watch a screen? For those trying to understand the news consumer, it’s the dawn of a new era. What business models will save — or replace — advertising-driven newspapers, magazines, the nightly news and other time-honored systems? Who will you trust to deliver accurate information about our world — and how much would you pay for it? Top executives at ABC, TIME , , and Bloomberg will consider what they know about today’s and tomorrow’s news consumers, plus the challenges and opportunities they all face. David Westin, Katherine Weymouth, Norman Pearlstine,Pearlstine, Josh TyrangieTyrangiel,l, Steven Brill Moderator: Walter Isaacson Hotel Jerome Ballroom

8:30pm LIFE IN AMERICA Obama and the Challenge of Expectations: A Look at the President’s First Six Months Political experts and insiders weigh in — and ask what you think. Margaret Carlson Charles Ogletree Linda Wertheimer Fred Wertheimer Moderator: Ron Brownstein Doerr Hosier Center, McNulty Room

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DARWIN ’S LEGACY Books for Breakfast Series: LIVING DIGITALLY Evolution in EEverydverydverydayay Life The Founding Fathers of Blogging Discuss the End of David Mindell will discuss the many applications of Media evolution to our everyday lives. Knowledge of evolution Mahalo.com and Gawker Media leaders discuss the is applied in the domestication of wild species for blogosphere and its impact on the traditional press. agriculture, in managing our exposure to pathogens Jason Calacanis and the severity of epidemics, in promoting individual Nick Denton health, in fostering the diversity of species that Moderator: Jeff Jarvis safeguard functional ecosystems, in pursuing justice within the legal system, and in promoting scientific discovery through education and research. The understanding and application of evolutionary science has become indispensable in modern society. David Mindell

WORLD AFFAIRS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY JUSTICE AND SOCIETY The Ascent of Finance … and the Descent of The Constitution in 2020 Democracy? What will be the great constitutional questions during Historian Niall Ferguson draws on his recent best- the next decade? Where is our Constitution going and seller, The Ascent of Money , to set the current where should it go? Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin financial crisis in long-run perspective. Just what will talks about the future of the Supreme Court and the political—and geopolitical—consequences of the interpreting the Constitution in the age of Obama. crisis be around the world? Past crises, like the University of Texas Professor Sandy Levinson asks Depression, weakened democracy. Could this one what’s broken with our system and what needs fixing. have similar effects, destabilizing new democracies in Jack Balkin Eastern Europe, destroying respect for Parliament in Sandy Levinson Britain, and propelling Communist China into a new Limelight Lodge position of economic parity with the ? Niall Ferguson Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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JUSTICE AND SOCIETY SCIENCE OF BEING HUMAN Markets and Morals The Lucifer Effect What are the moral limits of markets? Michael Sandel How does evil give birth to heroism by ordinary will preview his forthcoming public television series, people? Learn about a new conception of the heroic “Justice,” with a lively lunchtime session on the moral imagination that democratizes, demystifies, and fall-out of the financial crisis. diversifies heroism in Phil Zimbardo’s exploration of Michael Sandel scenarios like good people immersed in evil situations and saving the soul of the nation by creating hero-in- waiting youth ensembles. Philip Zimbardo

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INSPIRED ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIFE IN AMERICA Volunteerism in AAAmerica:America: The Newest Fad? Race aandnd Humor We ask little of our citizens. Paying taxes, respecting An exploration of how humor has been used to say the law, and voting pretty much round out our what we often cannot about race. individual responsibilities. But the digital world is Ta’Nehisi Coates promoting action, and recent polls show that Larry Wilmore volunteerism and civic participation are near all-time Hotel Jerome Ballroom highs. Is national service next? A look at civic engagement in America. Anne Mosle Kirsten Lodal Erin Carlson

LIFE IN AMERICA 1959 Fred Kaplan, Slate columnist and author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed , takes a revisionist view of the late 1950s—an era that spawned the jet age, the space age, free speech, free jazz, modern rock, pop art, indie films, the computer revolution, the sexual revolution, the beginnings of superpower détente and the war in Vietnam—and examines its parallels with the hopes and perils of our own New Frontier a half- century later. Fred Kaplan Limelight Lodge

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7:30pm – 8:30pm REBUILDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY Will Obamanomics Work? The business press reviews the historic economic agenda that President Obama has laid out to date. Will his policies work? Stephen J. Adler Megan McArdle David Wessel Clive Crook Belly Up Aspen

8:00pm – 9:00pm REBUILDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY For Car Enthusiasts Only What are the most exciting four-wheeled memories of those who have devoted their lives to the auto industry? Hear from John Devine, a former Ford and GM chief financial officer; Paul Ingrassia, The Wall Street Journal ’s former point man on the auto industry for two decades; and Csaba Csere, who tested over 1,000 cars during his 28-year career at Car and Driver magazine. This is your chance to learn what it’s like to drive the $1.5 million, 1,000-horsepower Bugatti Veyron at 253 mph and to share your own experiences behind the wheel. Vijay Vaitheeswaran John M. Devine Limelight Lodge

5 8:30pm – 10:00pm ARTS AND CULTURE Film and Discussion: Ten9Eight –––Shoot–Shoot for the Moon In the United States, a kid drops out of high school every nine seconds. Imagine if they didn’t. Ten9Eight from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low-income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business-plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. These remarkable kids are all are striving to defy the statistics: 1.2 million high school kids drop out of school every year; and 50 percent of African American, Hispanic, and Native American high school students will fail to graduate with their high school class. For many of these students, learning how to become an entrepreneur is destiny-changing. Rodney Walker Mary Mazzio Amy Rosen Moderator: Steven Brill Paepcke Auditorium

8:30pm – 10:00pm ARTS AND CULTURE The Bard and the Buck Don’t believe Shakespeare wrote about the economic woes and government machinations of today? You’ll doubt no further after seeing the witty “Bard on Bucks,” featuring prominent Festival speakers—adorned in pumpkin shorts and hoop skirts—who will dramatically deliver the Bard’s quips on our woeful predicament. They’ll toss out “paper bullets of the brain” ( Much Ado About Nothing ), there will be “much throwing about of brains” ( Hamlet ), and they will have the whole audience saying, “Zounds! We were never so bethumped with words” ( King John ). Miss it not. Ken Adelman, Carol AdelmanAdelman,, Michael ChertoffChertoff,, Bob SchiefferSchieffer,, Lynda ResnickResnick,, Andrew SullivanSullivan,, Douglas HoltzHoltz----EakinEakinEakin,, Meryl Chertoff Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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LIFE IN AMERICA LIFE IN AMERICA Books for Breakfast Series: Books for Breakfast Series: The Tyranny of Dead Ideas ZOOMZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future Individuals, companies, and the country face a threat Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution. from the things we think we know , but new and Vijay Vaitheeswaran surprising ways of thinking are destined to replace these Dead Ideas—so that America will prosper. It’s strange but true: at this moment in history, the battle to save the economy and the republic starts inside our heads. Matt Miller

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LIFE IN AMERICA LIFE IN AMERICA RESET: How This Economic Crisis Can Restore Our The End of American Exceptionalism? Values and Renew America American actions play on the world stage; this Is this the end of American excess? assumption has been a part of our politics since the Kurt Andersen first settlers arrived in New England. Over the Nancy Gibbs centuries, it has been used to justify foreign policies Limelight Lodge ranging from isolationism to interventionism, but each of these philosophies shared the belief that the United States was different—less a part of the world than apart from it, or even above it. Increasingly, this approach relied on Washington’s overwhelming military and economic power. Yet, following the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the global financial crisis, America finds itself in a weaker position, and with a president who speaks of global leadership in a humbler fashion. Is American exceptionalism dead, and if not, what does it mean in the 21st century? Niall Ferguson David Sanger Mickey Edwards Moderator: J. Peter Scoblic

SPECIAL EVENT : The Brian Lehrer Show: A Live Taping: The US Economy And The World “The Brian Lehrer Show,” New York Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning news/talk program, will broadcast a panel discussion “The US Economy and the World” live from the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. It will include economists, policymakers, and corporate leaders from Festival—and plenty of audience participation. Come add your insight to a discussion of what’s next for the world economy and what role the United States will play in the next economic order. McNulty Room, Doerr Hosier Building

12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH DISCUSSIONS :

DARWIN ’S LEGACY LIFE IN AMERICA God and Science in a Secular Agegegege How to Raise a Drug Free Kid: The “New Atheists”—, Richard The Straight Dope for Parents Dawkins, etc.—are dismissive of religion. They say that Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol belief in God is implausible in a scientific age and that before graduating high school. The good news is that a religion exerts an overwhelmingly bad influence on the child who gets to age 21 without smoking, using world. Is either claim true? illegal drugs, or abusing alcohol is virtually certain Robert Wright never to do so. How to talk to your kids about drugs Andrew Sullivan and alcohol. How to respond when your kid asks, “Did you do drugs?” Joseph CCalifanoalifano Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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DARWIN ’S LEGACY LIFE IN AMERICA Darwin’s Ablest Critic Me Of Little Faith After reading On The Origin of Species in a In Me of Little Faith , Lewis Black, one of the most sheepherder’s hut in New Zealand in 1860, 25-year- prolific and popular performers working today, offers a old Samuel Butler—“Darwin’s ablest critic”—became ferociously funny exploration of how the rules and obsessed with the under-acknowledged antecedents constraints of faith and religion have affected his life of Darwinism and the beyond-Darwinian evolution of and the lives of us all. “Quite simply,” says Black, “this technology that lay ahead. George Dyson traces the is a book about my relationship to religion and how I intellectual cross-fertilization between the Butlers arrived at whatever vague sense of religion I have. It’s (Samuel and Samuel) and the Darwins (Charles and how I stumbled along my spiritual path and what I Erasmus) to shed light on the history of evolutionary bumped into along the way.” And he has bumped into thought and the current state of Butler’s questions— plenty. Black describes his hilarious experiences with many of which have not yet been answered. “Even a rabbis, Mormons, gurus, televangelists, psychics, and man of genius could isolate himself by antagonizing even the joy of a perfect round of golf, and uses them Darwin on the one hand and the Church on the other,” as a jumping-off point to expound upon what we concluded George Bernard Shaw. believe and why—in the language of a shock jock with George Dyson the heart of an iconoclast. Lewis Black Interviewer: Bob Schieffer

LIFE IN AMERICA Water and tthehe Changing Face of the American West Like any living organism, America depends on water. And today, especially in the critical and fast-growing Western regions of the country, water has become a defining issue: who owns it, who controls access to it, who gets to use it and how. Can we continue to live by the infrastructure and water allocations that we’ve used for the last 100 years? With climate change, population shifts, and more, the answer is clearly no, but what will replace the current system? David Kennedy Limelight Lodge

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Afternoon of Conversation Sec. Madeleine Albright, Sec. James Baker, Justice Stephen Breyer, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, Dr. Eric Lander, others. All passholders welcome.

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7:30 pm ARTS AND CULTURE Permanent Paper Buildings: Shigeru Ban Called “the accidental environmentalist” by , architect Shigeru Ban will discuss his creative process, which extends beyond saving energy and the use of recycled materials into an exploration of people’s emotional connections to their living and work spaces. Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo/Paris/New York) are currently working on the Pompidou Centre’s historic, first satellite institution: the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France. Ban’s extensive humanitarian work includes the design of low-cost shelters for individuals displaced by earthquakes and floods. He was a visual art and design finalist for the 2009 Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Awards. This lecture is presented as part of the Aspen Art Museum’s Architecture Lecture Series in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival. Shigeru Ban Paepcke Auditorium

7:30pm ARTS AND CULTURE Sure Thing: An Evening with Playwright David Ives In recent years, David Ives has been the most widely performed playwright since Shakespeare. It’s easy to see why: He is hilarious, original, and ingeniously touching. Tonight’s event includes a conversation with Ives along with a presentation of his comic sketch, Sure Thing . David Ives Moderator: Dana Gioia Belly Up Aspen

8:00pm MANAGING PLANET EARTH The Fate of Wildlife in Modern Africa African Wildlife Foundation CEO Dr. Patrick Bergin will present a vision and a program plan to make some of Africa’s most important large conservation landscapes sustainable engines of ecological and economic benefit—for the continent and the world. Patrick Bergin Limelight Lodge

9:30pm SPECIAL EVENT : The News Has No Clothes Presented by Comedy Arts Studios In Partnership with The Onion Hosts: Lewis Black, Larry Wilmore, DL HughleyHughley,,,, Dana Perino GuestsGuests: ::: Kurt Andersen and others Aspen District Theatre

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WORLD AFFAIRS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION Navigating the Global Economy: CEO’s Discuss How to Learn and How to Teach in The Digital Age: Heads of leading corporations give their thoughts on University Leaders Weigh In surviving, and even thriving, in today's economy. There is a powerful movement in many universities to Gerard Kleisterlee (CEO, Royal Phillips Electronics) promote multi-disciplinary learning to equip students Hugh Grant (CEO, Monsanto Company) to deal more effectively with an extraordinarily David Rubenstein (Managing Director, Carlyle Group) complex digital world. How will the research university ShephShephardard W. Hill (President, Boeing International) synthesize multidisciplinary study into an effective way Moderator: Lionel Barber to learn, to think, and to act? (Start Time: 8:00 am) JeanJean----LouLou Chameau (President, CalTech) John Hennessy (President, Stanford University) Robert Zimmer (President, University of Chicago) Moderator: Sidney Harman

MANAGING PLANET EARTH SPECIAL EVENT : Books for Breakfast Series : The Brian Lehrer Show: A Live Taping: Last Child In the Woods: Saving Our Children from Being Human in a Digital World Nature Deficit Disorder John Palfrey, Will Wright, Patricia Kuhl Richard Louv, chairman of the Children & Nature McNulty Room, Doerr Hosier Building Network, speaks about the transformation in the Doors open at 7:30 am relationship between children and nature—how society (No tickets required) is teaching young people to avoid direct experience in nature. That unintended message is delivered by schools, families, even organizations devoted to the outdoors, and codified into the legal and regulatory structures of many of our local communities. Louv describes the new body of scientific evidence, demonstrating just how important direct contact with the outdoors is to healthy child development—touching on such health issues as ADHD, childhood obesity, stress, creativity, and cognitive functioning. To stimulate a “Leave No Child Indoors” movement, Louv offers practical suggestions for action by parents, grandparents, government agencies, conservationists, urban planners, educators, and others concerned about the future of childhood and the Earth itself. Richard Louv Limelight Lodge

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LIFE IN AMERICA INSPIRED ENTREPRENEURSHIP Inn Conversation with Minnesota Governor Pawlenty Social EEEngagement:Engagement: Young Entrepreneurs Doing WWellell While Doing Good A new business model is taking hold—one that is profitable, socially conscious, and engaging new audiences in social movements. But is it sustainable? We will explore that question and others through the lens of three successful social entrepreneurs. Lauren BushBush, FEED Blake MycoskieMycoskie, TOMS Shoes Jordan KassalowKassalow, VisionSpring Moderator: Darnell Strom

THE MIDDLE EAST THE MIDDLE EAST Syrian Ambassador Imad MMoustaphaoustapha in Conversation The Root Problem of the Middle East Crisis Interviewer: Jeffrey Goldberg Dennis Prager Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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7:30pm Latin Music USA : It’s Gonna Move You A groundbreaking musical exploration, Latin Music USA is a four-part PBS film series premiering on October 12, 2009. The films highlight the great American music created by Latinos over five decades and celebrate the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. Join Bobby Sanabria—percussionist, composer, recording artist, conductor, educator, multi-cultural warrior, and multiple Grammy nominee—for film clips, music, and an on-stage conversation with the series’ executive producer Elizabeth Deane and producer Pamela A. Aguilar. Pamela A. Aguilar Elizabeth Deane Bobby Sanabria Belly Up Aspen

8:00pm INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION Bigger than Carnegie, Faster than Starbucks: Scaling Literacy Room to Read’s John Wood uses scale and vision to deliver books and literacy to millions of children across the developing world. A discussion on the formation of Room to Read: What was the inspiration how did we get it off the ground, what challenges were there, how has it expanded so quickly? John Wood Moderator: Jane Wales Paepcke Auditorium

8:00pm SPECIAL EVENT : Inspired to Action Presented by the Bezos Scholars Program and the Global Nomads Group Palwasha Zarifi, William Kamkwamba, Ana Dodson, Darius Weems, Logan Smalley Moderator: Anna Deavere Smith 11 Hotel Jerome Ballroom

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THE MIDDLE EAST REBUILDING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY The Changing Media Landscape in the Middle East BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST SERIES : The Arab media landscape has radically changed in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable the last 15 years and the US media has improved its How to create an economic life closer to our biological coverage of all things Arab and Muslim. In recent environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no years, the United States has even courted, the “New leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not Arab Media”—whose audience is often comprised of a bankers, take the risks, and companies are born and critical, angry, and hostile Arab public. While US die every day without making the news. In other coverage of the Middle East remains focused on words, a place more resistant to black swans. politics, and less on society and culture, it is more Nassim Nicholas Taleb informative and complex than it use to be. Offensive references to the “Dark Side of Islam,” the “Islamic threat,” or the “green menace” are exceptions now and are challenged immediately. Yet sometimes the coverage of the region is marred by thin knowledge of cultural-religious nuances and can still be manipulated. Jeffrey Goldberg Hisham Melhem

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INSPIRED ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIVING DIGITALLY Social Entrepreneurs and Education Government 2.02.02.0 Three amazing young global leaders talk about their The Obama administration has promised to improve inspiration and unbridled commitments—and government by enlisting technology. One of the most successes—in building both infrastructure and capacity important lessons they can learn from Silicon Valley is in schools and libraries across the globe. how to act like a platform provider rather than a Abby Falik complete-solution provider. Apple’s iPhone inspired John Wood the creation of some 40,000 applications in less than Cameron Sinclair a year — with only a tiny fraction of them created by Moderator: Peter Reiling Apple. How can open data, broadband stimulus, and other government technology initiatives similarly spark innovation across America? Tim O’Reilly

INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION Why Learning to Read Is More Complicated Than You Think 12 Even in an electronic age, reading remains central to education, communication, and culture. Consequently, the decline in reading performance and participation, especially among younger Americans, have stirred political controversy. How have recent developments in scientific research and educational policy altered an informed view of this important topic? Claiborne Barksdale Patricia Kuhl Margaret Spellings Moderator: Dana Gioia

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7:00pm ARTS AND CULTURE “Studio 360” with guests They Might Be Giants Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: The Peabody Award-winning “Studio 360” with Kurt Andersen, from Public Radio International and WNYC, is public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are creating and shaping our culture. This week, “Studio 360” will air live from the Festival and feature musical guests They Might Be Giants and other Festival presenters. Tickets are available for the public. “Studio 360” airs Sundays at 3 p.m. on Aspen Public Radio and on more than 150 public radio stations around the country. Check out Studio360.org for broadcast times, free podcasts, videos, and more. Belly Up Aspen

9:00pm Fireworks in Aspen

9:15pm WORLD AFFAIRS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AmeAmericarica and the World Ambassadors from the United Kingdom, Germany, Morocco, and Syria offer diverse and insightful perspectives on America’s image, challenges, and responsibilities in the world today. Klaus Scharioth Sir Nigel Sheinwald Aziz Mekuoar Imad MouMoustaphastapha Moderator: Steve Redisch Hotel Jerome Ballroom

9:30pm ARTS AND CULTURE Favorite Poems: OOOursOurs and Yours Poetry should be a pleasure, but it is often presented in ways that even smart people find intimidating. Tonight, two leading American poets will share their favorite poems in an informal atmosphere. And they invite audience members to bring favorite poems of their own to share. Elizabeth Alexander Dana Gioia Aspen Meadows Resort, Heffner Lounge

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LIFE IN AMERICA INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION BOOKS FOR BREAKFAST SERIES : Superclass: The Global Leaving Microsoft to Change the World Power Elite and the World They Are Making John Wood discusses his success, his passion, and his Superclass draws back the curtain on a privileged plan to bring literacy across the globe. society that most of us know little about, even though JohJohJohnJoh n Wood it profoundly affects our everyday lives. Join us for an in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth—and who are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live. David Rothkopf

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WORLD AFFAIRS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INSPIRED ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Philanthropy at Home: New Ways to OOOrganizeOrganize In 2002, during one of the worst famines in Malawi's Communities history that eventually forced him out of school, 14- Since 1988, the Robin Hood Foundation has targeted year-old William Kamkwamba used knowledge from a poverty in . By applying sound few old science books to build a series of windmills investment principles to philanthropy and forging out of plastic pipe, tree branches, and rusted bicycle relationships with credible partners, the Foundation and tractor parts to produce electricity and pump helps to save lives and change fates. The Case water in his small village. The windmills brought him Foundation works at home and abroad—from international attention, and here Kamkwamba speaks Washington to Palestine to South Africa—to expand with journalist Bryan Mealer, his co-author on their giving, promote everyday philanthropy, deepen civic upcoming book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: engagement, and broaden the use of new Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope , which will be technologies to make giving more informed, efficient, published in October by William Morrow. and effective. Learn more, give a lot. William Kamkwamba David Saltzman Bryan Mealer Michael Smith

SCIENCE OF BEING HUMAN The Viral Storm The delicate balance between humans and the microbes around us has come undone. Massive human population growth and the “connectivity explosion” of the 20th century have created a world where viruses that would once have gone extinct in small isolated villages and town now easily become pandemics. This talk will explore how pandemics are born, why we are plagued with more of them now than at any point in human history, and what can be done to stop them. Nathan Wolfe

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