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Forum Network

Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

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Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) Forum Network is an online, on-demand archive of discussions 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 metro Atlanta and beyond. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these events online. We encourage our audience to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide our viewers with added information lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. **About Atlanta Public Broadcasting ** Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air. For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.

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  • Atlanta Neighborhood Summit

    Sat, Sep 12, 2009
    Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, addresses the Atlanta Neighborhood Summit. The Neighborhood Summit is a new, day-long event aimed at bringing together neighbors from across the region to discuss issues of mutual interest. The theme for this first annual event, Neighborhood Connections, Regional Voices, expresses the importance of strengthening neighborhoods while building a collaborative regional voice.
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    PBA

  • Verdi: Italian Romanticism and Il Trovatore

    Wed, Feb 25, 2009
    Carter Jopseph offers an examination of Verdi's masterwork. He discusses the plot, characters, and structure of the opera, and plays several musical highlights of Verdi's most passionate, most melodic score. This event is hosted by The Englishman Gallery in Atlanta.
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    PBA

  • Dear John: Addressing Child Sex Exploitation

    Tue, Aug 21, 2007
    Dear John, a public education campaign under Atlanta Women's Agenda (AWA), aims at ending the commercial sexual exploitation of children, is a collaboration by Mayor Shirley Franklin, the Juvenile Justice Fund and a wide-range of supporters. The campaign seeks to educate and activate audiences to help stem the problem, which also results in children withdrawing from schools and their families, entering into poverty and becoming more susceptible to health risks. The Atlanta Women's Agenda (AWA) is an initiative of Mayor Shirley Franklin to highlight issues affecting women and bring together new energy for change. AWA coordinates quarterly roundtables on women's issues, develops strategies to end child prostitution and seeks to gain women's full participation in civil society.
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    PBA

  • Tutankhamun: Golden King, Great Pharaoh

    Wed, Mar 18, 2009
    Clare Fitzgerald, from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, discusses the two current exhibitions about the most famous archaeological discovery of all time: King Tut's tomb. Fitzgerald also discusses the photography of Harry Burton, who documented the Tutankhamun excavation when the tomb was discovered in 1922. This event is hosted by The Englishman Gallery in Atlanta.
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    PBA

  • NPR's Linda Wertheimer and New WABE Staff

    Tue, Mar 17, 2009
    Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Linda Wertheimer, and 90.1/WABE-FM's Denis O'Hayer and John Lemley discuss issues of the day in this Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) event at the Altanta Botanical Garden. PBA General Manager John Weatherford introduces the event.
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    Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

    Mon, Apr 27, 2009
    In celebration of the 40th anniversary of [Sesame Street](http://www.sesamestreet.org/) (in 2009), Michael Davis takes us behind the scenes of the innovative and definitive children's TV show on PBS. Davis talks about his book, *Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street*, which chronicles fascinating stories of the well-known characters and many unsung heroes of the program. PBA (Atlanta) General Manager John Weatherford moderates. This event is hosted by the Atlanta Fulton County Library.
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  • The 2009-2010 Atlanta Falcons Season

    Mon, Jun 15, 2009
    Mike Smith, Atlanta Falcons head coach, discusses plans and hopes for the NFL team's season. This event is hosted by the Atlanta Rotary Club.
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    PBA

  • A Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia

    Sat, Dec 13, 2008
    Janice L. Sumler-Edmond talks with 90.1 WABE's Valerie Jackson about *The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia*. This is a live taping of WABE's *Between the Lines* program. Sumler-Edmond has served as a professor of United States history, African American history and constitutional history and law since her appointment to the Huston-Tillotson University faculty in 2002. She is also the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Honors Program. Previously, she taught history at Clark Atlanta University and served as the chair of the history department and as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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    PBA
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    Travis and Trinity Townsend: When The Cops Come Knockin’

    Mon, Mar 15, 2010
    Travis and Trinity Townsend are brothers, attorneys, and authors of *When The Cops Come Knockin': An Illustrative Guide to Criminal Law*. They speak to a class of high school students about criminal law, offer teenage survival skills and deliver insightful information about commonly committed cybercrimes. They discuss how to assert and protect legal rights when confronted by police officers, prosecutors, and other representatives of the criminal justice system.
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    PBA

  • Seymour E. Goodman on Technology and Terrorism

    Wed, Nov 7, 2007
    Professor Goodman's research focuses on international technological development, technology diffusion, and related public policy issues. Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and PBA present Dr. Goodman who is co-director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology & Policy (CISTP) and the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), as well as adjunct professor in the School of Public Policy. His current work is concentrated on the study of global diffusion of the internet and the security of large-scale national and international IT-based infrastructures. After earning his BS and MS Degrees from Columbia University, Dr. Goodman earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.
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