Aspen Ideas Festival: Full Schedule

8:00am MDT

The Uncertain Return: How Is the 21st Century Veteran Doing?

Speakers

Roger Cressey

Rocco Landesman is the 10th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior to his post at the NEA, Landesman was a longtime theater producer. As president of Jujamcyn, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters, Landesman produced most notably The Producers, which won... Read More →

Dawn Halfaker

Joe Klein

Joe Klein is a columnist and senior writer at TIME. He joined the magazine in 2003 to write a regular column, In the Arena, on national and international affairs. He is the author of The Natural: Bill Clinton’s Misunderstood Presidency and several other nonfiction books. As “Anonymous... Read More →

Paul Rieckhoff

Paul Rieckhoff is founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), America’s first and largest organization for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Rieckhoff was among the first responders to the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001... Read More →

Saturday June 30, 2012 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Paepcke Auditorium

War & Peace

10:30am MDT

Does the United States Have a Responsibility to Protect?

Speakers

Michael Abramowitz

Mike Abramowitz is the director of the Committee on Conscience, the genocide-prevention program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which seeks to raise awareness among the public and policymakers about the challenges of preventing genocide today. Among its activities... Read More →

Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. A prolific writer who has published seven critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama, during the... Read More →

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent of The Atlantic. Before joining the magazine in 2007, he was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. He has... Read More →

Dele Olojede

Dele Olojede is the publisher of NEXT and 234NEXT.com, which provide news and informed opinion primarily for a Nigerian audience to further the common good. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former foreign editor at New York Newsday, he is chairman of the Global Network Initiative... Read More →

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as the first woman director of policy planning for the US State Department. Slaughter was dean of Princeton’s Woodrow... Read More →

Sunday July 1, 2012 10:30am - 11:40am MDT
Greenwald Pavilion

War & Peace

12:00pm MDT

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus

Speakers

Paula Broadwell

Paula Broadwell is the author of the New York Times best-seller All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Her book was named by Foreign Policy magazine as a “best read of 2012.” Broadwell has served over 15 years in intelligence, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency... Read More →

Michael O'Hanlon

Michael O’Hanlon is director of research and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in US defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security, and American foreign policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University... Read More →

Sunday July 1, 2012 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Limelight Hotel

War & Peace

1:15pm MDT

Technology of War: What Does the War of the Future Look Like?

Speakers

Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep is co-host of “Morning Edition,” the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. Inskeep’s career as a correspondent has taken him to the changing neighborhoods of American cities, the first presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan... Read More →

Mary Legere

Mary A. Legere is a lieutenant general and the senior Army intelligence officer in the Pentagon. Legere has served for 30 years in positions of increasing responsibility and leadership. She has commanded at all levels, from company command in Korea to the Commanding General of the... Read More →

Mike McConnell

Mike McConnell is vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton, where his primary roles include serving on the firm’s leadership team and leading Booz Allen’s rapidly expanding cyber business. After retiring from the Navy in 1996 as a vice admiral, McConnell joined Booz Allen and led... Read More →

Peter W. Singer

Peter W. Singer is director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. One of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare, he was named by President Obama to the US military’s Transformation Advisory... Read More →

James Steinberg

James Steinberg is dean of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law. Prior to becoming dean in 2011, he served as deputy secretary of state, serving as the principal deputy to Secretary Clinton. From 2005... Read More →

Sunday July 1, 2012 1:15pm - 2:25pm MDT
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room

War & Peace

5:00pm MDT

What Does It Mean to Be a Military Superpower?

Speakers

Steve Inskeep

Mike Mullen

Mike Mullen is a retired US Navy admiral. He served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the president’s principal military advisor, from 2007 until 2011. From 2005 to 2007, Mullen was the 28th chief of naval operations, the Navy’s highest-ranking officer. As chairman... Read More →

Sunday July 1, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Greenwald Pavilion

War & Peace

8:00am MDT

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Speakers

Stephen L. Carter

Elisa New

Monday July 2, 2012 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room

War & Peace

10:30am MDT

What Is America's Future Military Role in the World?

Speakers

Jane Harman

Jane Harman is president, CEO, and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a former US representative (D-CA). Representing the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, she served on all of the major security committees: six years... Read More →

Craig Nixon

Craig Nixon is a partner at McChrystal Group. He retired as a brigadier general in the US Army in 2011. In his more than 29-year Army career, his assignments included seven tours in special operations units and three tours in Korea. Nixon participated in a number of combat operations... Read More →

Michael O'Hanlon

James Steinberg

Dina Temple-Raston

Dina Temple-Raston is a counterterrorism correspondent for NPR News. She joined NPR in 2007. A long-time foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia, Temple-Raston opened Bloomberg’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices, working for both Bloomberg’s financial wire and radio operations... Read More →

Monday July 2, 2012 10:30am - 11:40am MDT
Greenwald Pavilion

War & Peace

1:15pm MDT

The Ethics of War

Speakers

Stephen L. Carter

Leigh G. Hafrey

Leigh Hafrey is a senior lecturer in the Behavioral and Policy Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. His 2005 book The Story of Success delves into how people use story to articulate ethical norms. Since the mid-1990s, Hafrey has moderated... Read More →

Monday July 2, 2012 1:15pm - 2:25pm MDT
Kresge Building, Hines Room

War & Peace

1:15pm MDT

Women In the Military: Embracing Opportunities and Challenges

Speakers

Paula Broadwell

Nancy Brown

Nancy Brown is a retired vice admiral in the US Navy. She most recently served as director of command, control, communications, and computer systems (C4) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She has served as an outside director of systematic software; is on the Armed Forces Communications... Read More →

Mary Legere

Angela Messer

Angela Messer is a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and leads the firm’s army business. Messer’s areas of expertise include information technology, cyber, cloud computing, data and business intelligence, and systems engineering and integration. A former US Army officer... Read More →

Monday July 2, 2012 1:15pm - 2:25pm MDT
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room

War & Peace

7:45am MDT

It's Not Your Grandfather's Army: The History and Future of America's Armed Forces

Speakers

David Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than four decades. His book, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War... Read More →

Tuesday July 3, 2012 7:45am - 8:45am MDT
Hotel Jerome Ballroom

War & Peace