Forum Network
Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas
OPB
Oregon Public Broadcasting: giving voice to the community, connecting Oregon and its neighbors, illuminating a wider world. The OPB Forum Network is presented as part of a new partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Forum Network service provides an online, on-demand archive of lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington as well as communities across the nation. The Forum Network lecture library currently includes over 2500 video and audio files, produced by OPB and other participating public broadcast stations. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these lecture events online. We encourage audiences to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide viewers with more information, lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. About Oregon Public Broadcasting OPB is proud to serve the wonderful communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington for eight decades. Since our beginning in 1922, we've grown significantly from our roots as a radio broadcaster on the campus of Oregon State University. Today OPB is a successful membership organization, a public broadcaster of radio and television, a content producer and distributor for television, radio and the web, as well as a statewide resource service for teachers and educators. Our mission has always been to provide life-long learning opportunities for the people in our communities. OPB is continuing to develop new ways to bring information to people through our traditional broadcasting services and newer distribution sources available through the Internet, including audio and video streaming, and digital broadcasting. OPB is committed to bringing audiences trusted, well-informed, in-depth coverage of important issues as well as entertaining programming that makes a positive difference in people's lives.