2008 Program Tracks

Program Tracks will immerse participants in a specific subject area through themed lectures, presentations, discussions, and tutorials.

 

Some program tracks span the course of the week (Seven-Day Tracks) while others (Four-Day Tracks) take place during only either the first or second session of the Festival. 

 

Program Tracks for the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival include:


Seven-Day Tracks
American Experience
Global Dynamics
Arts and Culture
Climate and Sustainability
Four-Day Tracks
Children and Education
Religion and the Modern World
Medicine 2025
Global Commerce and the World Economy
The Net Generation
Food, Fuel and Famine
India: The Most Important Country for the Future of the World?
Innovation and Technology
Seven-Day Tracks

American Experience
June 30 - July 6

Politics, values, the state of the "American Dream", a special historical series on the Presidency, just in time for the 2008 election, and much more.  What ideas are defining American life nearly a decade into the 21st Century, and which ones will define the decades to come?