13 April 2021
3:00 pm
“The Arts of Moderating: A Workshop” with Todd Breyfogle
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“The Arts of Moderating: A Workshop” with Todd Breyfogle

 

Aspen Institute España held last April 13, 2021, a moderator’s workshop that was guided by Todd BreyfogleManaging Director of the Executive Leadership Seminars for the Aspen Institute (USA). The goal of this workshop was to train moderators for the Programs of Aspen Institute España. In this way, we want to recognize our most active and committed Fellows and Alumni.

Aspen Institute España is a non-partisan foundation, dedicated to promoting values-based leadership and dialogues on critical issues for the future of our society. We offer a plural and balanced forum to debate issues of general interest among participants who aim to turn their ideas into action. Our activities are developed through programs, seminars and conferences on leadership, values and public policies. Our vision is to stregthen civil society by fostering a culture of dialogue and creating a network of people willing to promote debate as the backbone of civil society.

 

Todd Breyfogle’s biography

Todd Breyfogle is Managing Director of the Executive Leadership Seminars for the Aspen Institute, overseeing a number of seminar offerings, including the Aspen Executive Seminar on leadership, values and the good society—since 1950 the heart of the Aspen Institute’s humanities-based executive leadership development programs. Todd moderates seminars for the Aspen Institute and has published and lectured widely on the great books, political philosophy, theology, literature, and liberal education. He serves on several non-profit boards, is a recipient of research and curriculum grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), and the Templeton Foundation, and is editor emeritus of The American Oxonian, the quarterly publication of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press, 1999), co-editor of Philosophy, Politics, and the Conversation of Mankind (Colorado College, 2016), and author of On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law (Bloomsbury, 2017). Before joining the Aspen Institute, Todd was a Fellow and Program Officer at Liberty Fund (where he gained extensive experience organizing and facilitating great books discussions) and taught in and directed the Honors Program at the University of Denver. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the Iliff School of Theology and as a visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Tulsa. He has lectured at universities in the US, UK, Canada, Romania, and India, including Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Dartmouth, Concordia, Wesleyan, and the University of Chicago. He currently chairs the board of the American Academy for Liberal Education, serves on the board of the Alliance for Liberal Learning, and in 2012 was elected to the Senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In 2015 Todd was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to the Order of St. John, an 11th century Order of Chivalry of the British Crown. A Colorado native, he earned his B.A. at Colorado College (Phi Beta Kappa) in Classics-History-Politics. He attended Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), where he read Ancient and Modern History and Patristic and Modern Theology. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought (as a Century Fellow and Javitz Fellow).

 

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