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The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. [2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. , but also has a campus in Aspen, Colorado , its original home.
From 1974–1981, Roberts served as Director for the Program of Food, Climate, and the World's Future at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. He taught a course in world environmental problems, which was conducted by computer communications, for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California, from 1982–1990.
He also was a scholar-in-residence for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies from 1967 to 1968. As a general editor for Harper & Row , Gray supervised work for the publisher on translations of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger , with whom he formed a personal association, and was among his earliest champions in the United States.
From the success of the Goethe Bicentennial Festival came the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Under Paepcke, the Aspen Institute's programs explored a range of topics through lectures and discussions with top thinkers in a variety of fields from science to the arts. [11] [12]
Harman was chairman of the Program Committee of the Board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and a member of the Board of the Carter Center of Emory University. He was a philanthropist and a member of Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company Board of Trustees.
In 1972 and 1976, Aziz was the artist in residence and lecturer at the Aspen Institute Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in Aspen, Colorado. Aziz painted commissioned portraits of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Premier the Honorable John Robarts , Governor-General Georges Vanier and Mrs. Vanier, noted Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh ...
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With the effective dissolution of the CCF in 1967, Nabokov found a series of teaching jobs at American universities, and in 1970, became resident composer at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, where he remained until 1973. Although he was well-connected socially, very little of his music has been recorded as of November 2010.