Aspen Public Radio was proud to partner with The Aspen Institute to broadcast from the Aspen Ideas Festival June 29 - July 5. Podcasts of the broadcast events are being updated daily: please check back regularly! For more information about the Aspen Ideas Festival, please visit the Aspen Insitute website.


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7:30 – 8:30 pm
Why Copenhagen: What the science is telling us about climate change.
John Holdren is the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director. He 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.

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9 – 10:15 am
What Is, and What Isn't Just about the American Criminal Justice System?
Why does the United States imprison a higher percentage of its population than any other country? Race and American Civil Justice: Are we just? Our jury system: Is it broken? An exploration of American Justice. With TD Jakes, Sandra Day O'Connor and moderator Linda Wertheimer.

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1:15 – 2:15 pm
Google Looks at the Economy: A conversation with Eric Schmidt
Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace, talks with Google chairman and CEO about his business strategy in a rapidly changing economy.

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5 – 6 pm
In Conversation: Finding common ground in climate and energy policy
Shell Oil President Marvin E. Odum and the Heinz Center's Thomas Lovejoy discuss how businesses and NGOs are finding common ground in addressing climate change and energy policy.

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9 – 10:15 am
In Conversation with Austan Goolsbee
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo talks with Chief Economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and a member of the Council of Economic advisors, Austan Goolsbee.

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1:15 – 2:15 pm
In Conversation with Susan Rice
Editor of The Atlantic magazine James Bennet interviews United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice.

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5 – 6 pm
In Conversation with Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses the future of American education with interviewer Charlie Rose.

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10:30 – 11:45 am
Transforming Music
Todd Machover has a unique approach to the future of music blending tradition with bold new technologies. He talks about Hyperinstruments and demonstrates how a Hypercello designed for Yo-Yo Ma led to the innovations behind "Guitar Hero." He also discusses a new music ecology.

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2 – 6:30 pm
An Afternoon of Conversation
Poet Elizabeth Alexander
Secretaries of State
Justice Stephen Breyer & Professor Charles Ogletree
Hernando De Soto & Madedline Albright
Biologist Eric Lander
Israeli ambassador Michael Oren



9 – 10:15 am
How Do We Nurture and Grow Innovation?
If the next generation is going to be successful, they have to think entrepreneurially and innovatively. How do we create a skill set that will encourage these capacities in young people? John Hennessy, president and Bing Presidential Professor at Stanford University, talks with interviewer John Doerr, a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

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2:30 – 3:45 am
The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
NBC's Andrea Mitchell talks to David Sanger, who covers the White House for The New York Times.


9 – 10:15 am
In Conversation with Alan Greenspan
President of the Aspen Institute Walter Isaacson interviews former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan

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1:15 – 2:15 am
Stumbling on Happiness
Most of us think we know what would make us happy and that our only problem is getting it. But research in psychology and economics show that people routinely mispredict who they feel when they do and don't get what they are seeking. Daniel Gilbert, psychology professor at Harvard University talks about what science has to tell us about why we seem to stumble "on" happiness rather than "upon it."

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4 – 5 pm
In Conversation on the Middle East
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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9 – 10:15 am
Transforming the Educational System: A conversation with Michelle Rhee.
Michelle Rhee is chancellor of the D.C. Public School system and founder of the New Teacher Project, a nationally recognized leader in developing innovative solutions toh te challenges of hiring new teachers. Eli Broad, founder of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation interviews Rhee.

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10:30 – 11:45 am
Postcards from Tomorrow's Square
James Fallows discusses what distinguishes China from other Asian nations. What causes the dissonance between how China sees itself and how the rest of the world sees it. Fallows is the National Correspondent for The Atlantic.