Forum/Aspen 2020 Interview Series

The latest in the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series:

Along with her team, Danielle Allen, Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, published the nation’s first comprehensive operational guide for mobilizing and reopening the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus crisis on April 20 (title: “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience”). The takeaways are massively scaled up programs of testing, tracing, and supported isolation. As COVID has continued to increase and schools are dealing with issues of health and safety, Ms. Allen speaks with PBS's Hari Sreenivasan on the issues of ethics and democracy that have arisen during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Together with Stephen B. Heintz and Eric Liu, Allen chaired the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that came out in June 2020. 

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Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of Lumina Foundation and author of the new book Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines joins Emily Hanford of APM Reports to discuss education issues during the COVID as the landscape of work continues to change. He discusses what human workers have that robots never will. 

WHYJAMIE? WHY NOW?

His research shows how the acquisition and nurturing of talent provides the US with a qualitative strategic advantage , and the indispensable value of “human work” in an age of smart machines.

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RALUCA ADA POPA, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley speaks to Hari Sreenivasan of PBS about how hackers pose a greater risk to the privacy of student data during this transition to more online education during COVID. 

Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series continues today with an interview between Delece Smith Barrow of the Hechinger Report and Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University. As the author of the book Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, Zelizer is in a prime position to talk about politicization of the coronavirus crisis, how the U.S. response might have played out differently if a different president were in office, and what the future holds for political strategy in Washington. 

In this newest episode from the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series  John Mitchell, Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, talks to journalist Monica Campbell from The World.

WHY JOHN? WHY NOW?

As the former vice provost for online learning at Stanford and a web security expert, he speaks about to what the future of online learning will look like post-pandemic, how to balance privacy concerns with access to personal data necessary for contact tracing, and whether the shift to remote learning levels the playing field between the Ivies and other universities.

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William Kirby Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Chair of the Harvard China Fund joins Hari Sreenivasan of PBS. They discuss US-China relations with regard to COVID and Higher Education. 

WHY WILLIAM KIRBY, WHY NOW?
As the world navigates a global pandemic and the U.S. presidential election looms this fall, many have questioned what these circumstances mean for the future of U.S.-China relations. As someone who’s studied modern Chinese history and the relationship between America and China, Kirby can offer informed predictions.

In this newest episode from the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series
Spencer Overton,  President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies at George Washington University, joins journalist Monica Campbell of The World.

WHY SPENCER, WHY NOW?

His perspective on election law and voting rights is particularly valuable as the country approaches an election in which the coronavirus crisis presents new dangers of voter suppression.

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Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the new book The World: A Brief Introduction has a chat with Delece Barrow-Smith from the Hechinger Report. 

WHY Richard, WHY NOW?
Richard’s extensive experience in foreign affairs positions him to discuss the dilemmas presented by a pandemic that simultaneously emphasizes the need for global cooperation and encourages nations to isolate themselves from dangers from abroad. 

As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series David Sanger,
national security correspondent and a senior writer for The New York Times, talks to Hari Sreenivasan of PBS. They discuss national and international security issues. 

As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series James and Deborah Fallows joins Emily Hanford from APM Reports to discuss how communities around the country are reacting to the COVID situation and the racial unrest. 

Since 2013, the Fallows have traveled to small communities in every part of the country that have faced economic shocks, political crises, or other serious hardships. Each place they went, they talked with teachers, business creators, mayors, religious leaders, students, artists and architects, librarians, and others involved in shaping their community's future.

As they traveled across the country, at low altitude in a little propeller airplane, they saw the patterns of river and hill that explain the pattern of American settlement. On the ground, they saw the emerging pattern of American reinvention - through the stories collected here

They are the authors of the book Our Town.
https://www.ourtownsbook.com/