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Aspen Ideas Festival, hosted in partnership with The Atlantic. Independence Day at the Ideas Festival kicked off with a conversation featuring presidential historians Joshua Hawley and David Kennedy, Institute President Walter Isaacson, Representative Jane Harman and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. MPAA Chief Dan Glickman talked about the power and potential of the arts with playwright/performer Sarah Jones and others. This and much more!

Martin J. Sherwin

McCloskey Speaker Series, July 15. Ambassador Tom Korologos, a former senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and immediate past US Ambassador to Belgium, will speak on "Iraq: A Perspective 5 Years Later." On June 24, Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf), spoke on Hiroshima's Shadow: The First Nuclear World and Ours. Watch the video (quicktime); listen to the audio (mp3).

King Abdullah II
of Jordan

Special Address by His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Monday, July 21, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Greenwald Pavilion, The Aspen Institute (Aspen, Colorado). Tickets available July 9: Society of Fellows call (970) 544-7980. Tickets for the public ($20) will be available at www.aspenshowtickets.com, or (970) 920-5770 (Aspen Show Tickets), or in person at the Aspen Show Tickets Box Office at the Wheeler Opera House.

U.S.-Palestinian Partnership: Promoting Economic and Educational Opportunities for the Palestinian People. This innovative partnership was launched December 3, 2007 and its major activities include the May 2008 Palestinian Investment Conference in Bethlehem, which focused on attracting private sector investment in the Palestinian economy. Read more about the UPP.

Institute Releases Guidebook of Socially Responsible Business School Programs. The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) is publishing its first guidebook for MBA students seeking socially responsible business school programs. Based on research from Aspen CBE's latest Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings, 130 global MBA programs are profiled in the guide and designated as "truly extraordinary," "excellent," or "good." Read more. See Financial Times article.

Theodore B. Olson

Knight Commission launches with first meeting at the Newseum. Under the co-chairmanship of Theodore B. Olson and Marissa Mayer, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy convened its inaugural meeting at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum in Washington DC. Read more. Read the Los Angeles Times Technology blog, "Seeking a Digital Roadmap to Keep Communities Connected."

Julia Reed

Author Julia Reed Reveals the Characters and Stories of Post-Katrina New Orleans. Reed, contributing editor to Newsweek and senior writer at Vogue, discussed her latest book, The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (HarperCollins), in the June installment of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series. Read more. Watch the video: quicktime. Listen to the mp3.

Kojo Oppong-
Nkrumah and
Isoken Uwa
Osa-Oboh

New class of ALI/West Africa Fellows Launched in Nigeria. The ALI/West Africa Initiative, a joint venture between the Aspen Institute, Databank Ghana and LEAP Africa Nigeria, launched a second class of Fellows comprised of twenty-six outstanding Ghanaian and Nigerian leaders. They are highly accomplished entrepreneurial leaders from the business, government and civil society sectors. Read more.

Mobilizing Change: 10 Nonprofit Policy Proposals To Strengthen U.S. Communities, the latest NSPP publication, is a compilation of proposals of leading thinkers in the field who are working to address social problems and improve the lives of those in need through nonprofit-government policies.

The Global Politics of Energy. This book presents a high-level examination of policy strategies for addressing the challenges posed by the soaring demand for oil, the rise of petro-powers, and the implications of climate change.

Where Will They Lead? 2008 MBA Student Attitudes About Business & Society Available as downloadable PDF only.

The Rise Of Collective Intelligence: Decentralized Co-Creation of Value as a New Paradigm of Commerce and Culture describes how collective intelligence affects business value creation and passion-based collaborative learning resulting in new user generated business and media models.

Aspenia, published by Aspen Institute Italia, a multidisciplinary journal covering issues of strategic interest.

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