Aspen Ideas Festival: Recent Episodes
Aspen Ideas Festival
This is the official channel of the Aspen Ideas Festival, the nation's premier public-gathering place where leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times. Some 350 presenters, 200 sessions, and 3000 attendees comprise the annual Festival, launched in 2005, on the Aspen Institute's campus in Aspen, Colorado.
The forthcoming PBS series “Earth: A New Wild” is the multi-year quest by scientist M. Sanjayan to redefine what it means for us – all 7 billion of us -- to share the planet with wild nature. Filmed in 29 countries on six continents and produced by National Geographic and Passion Pictures, the series reveals how humans are inextricably linked with nature. Making a stark break from how we think of blue-chip nature films, "Earth: A New Wild" combines never before filmed wildlife spectacles with powerful human dramas that reveal how saving nature really means saving ourselves. Host and narrator Sanjayan will offer an exclusive first look at the series’ “Plains” episode, filmed in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Russia, Norway, Montana and Colorado. Underwritten by PBS. M. Sanjayan
Why is research about women’s health so important? This engaging presentation is part of our very own “Aspen Med School 101” curriculum: a series of in-town classes and lectures by leading physicians and professors designed to offer you the most up-to-date information and research that is being taught in leading medical schools around the country. Amy Huebschmann