Ideas
We belive that only society open to new knowledge can be successful in the modern world. That is why we share the most valuable ideas and senses that were born in the Aspen community and invite everybody to develop and distribute them further.
Based on the thesis of the speech at the annual meeting of the Aspen Institute Kyiv seminar alumni, the Aspen Reunion December 14, 2024 Reality is a familiar term. We use this word when we want to emphasize something tangible that is true. When we say “he or she is doing a real thing,” we …
On September 30, the Aspen Institute Kyiv and the Science & Society Program of the Aspen Institute (USA) held an online dialogue titled “Navigating the infodemic: Science in the post-truth era.” Leading Ukrainian and international experts discussed the current state of the fight against science denial, propaganda, and infodemic as it is in Ukraine. The …
The Aspen Institute Kyiv actively cooperates with partners of the international Aspen Institute network to maintain a leadership dialogue to support Ukraine. Notably, over the 2.5 years of full-scale war, we have strengthened our relations with our Italian colleagues. Starting with the meetings between Italian and Ukrainian leaders when our alumni were connecting from shelters …
March 7, 2022. Irpin has been without electricity and water for three days, fighting continues near Kyiv, the invaders shelled Kharkiv 30 times, and our defense forces shot down the same number of Russian helicopters in Chornobaivka. This is just a part of the events of that day. Meanwhile, Yuliya Tychkivska, Executive Director of the …
Тoday marks the 75th anniversary of the first Aspen convening of what would become the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. On June 27, 1949, several thousand participants from across the world converged on an almost abandoned silver mining town in the Colorado mountains. The Goethe Bicentennial Convocation featured lectures by distinguished intellectuals and public figures, …
The full-scale war sharpened feelings, began to prompt reinterpretation of fundamental issues. One of them was obviously about building a sustainable future. What should it be based on? What should be its basis? What can we as a nation unite around and what divides us? Moreover, how to convert those separating factors into connecting ones? …
How can one find time to read all the significant books written over more than 2000 years? One should turn to the literary canon, which serves as a guidepost. The canon reflects the challenges of today, the ideas that withstand the test of time, and helps expand the boundaries of one’s worldview. As mentioned earlier, …
The Aspen Institute Kyiv and Impact Hub Odesa have been organizing the Ideas Festival in Ukraine since 2018. In relatively peaceful times, it was a major public event, bringing together thinkers and practitioners from all over Ukraine and abroad. Together, they thought and sought solutions to current challenges. We dedicated the last festival before the …
People change — spiritually, emotionally — according to the challenges they face. The full-scale war became the catalyst of these processes and forced to reconsider external and internal conflicts, concepts of good and evil, life and death. It is necessary to overcome anxiety, despair, disaffection; to try to reformat yourself productively, to adapt in order …
One who does nothing makes no mistakes. Mistakes are an integral part of our lives. However, some of them can be costly, especially those concerning existential and worldview issues on a national scale, and can affect history. The Aspen Institute Kyiv organized a screening and discussion of the film from the “Last War” series produced …