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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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Education in a Flatter World

Wed, Feb 1, 2006

A panel discusses the implications of the report released in July 2005 entitled "Tapping America's Potential; The Education for Innovation Initiative", which outlined an aggressive blueprint for federal, state, and business engagement to double the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates with bachelor's degrees by 2015. This forum is held in conjunction with the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education quarterly board meeting.

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Future of Public Education In Atlanta

Thu, Jan 19, 2006

Beverly Hall discusses the changes that have taken place since she was appointed Superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) in 1999.

Forum Network

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Renee Montagne: Producing Morning Edition

Fri, Dec 10, 2004

Renee Montagne relates her experiences as a journalist for National Public Radio and what it takes to produce *Morning Edition*. **Renee Montagne** has been co-hosting NPR's *Morning Edition* since December, 1994. Montagne is a familiar voice on NPR and has served as a correspondent and occasional host on *Morning Edition* since 1989. She has worked for NPR's science, national, and foreign desks and served as co-host with Robert Siegel on *All Things Considered*.

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Kai Ryssdal: Anatomy of Marketplace

Thu, Oct 6, 2005

Kai Ryssdal, host of Public Radio International's *Marketplace*, describes how stories are chosen for the program, what changes are coming in the program's future, and what's happening in the world of business.

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46 Years of Desegregation at the University of Georgia

Wed, Jan 9, 2008

Michael Thurmond delivers the Holmes-Hunter Lecture, which honors Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students to enroll at UGA. Lecture speakers focus on race relations, black history or aspects of higher education with implications for race relations.

Civil Rights Movement Series

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PBA
Love Is a Mix Tape

Wed, Jan 23, 2008

*Rolling Stone* writer Rob Sheffield discusses his book *Love Is a Mix Tape*, which examines life, love, and death in terms of music, specifically a set of mixtapes from throughout his relationship with Renee, the spunky punk rocker he married and eventually lost to a pulmonary embolism. After the reading, local band The Swear takes the bookstore stage and plays some rock.

Pop Culture

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PBA
Keeping It Wild

Sat, Nov 3, 2007

Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, delivers the keynote address for the 2007 Keeping it Wild (KIW) gala. KIW is a program of The Wilderness Society, a national member group of Earth Share. Keeping it Wild connects people to the land and to each other in order to protect and conserve wildlands. The annual Keeping it Wild Gala, presented by Southern Company, celebrates the diversity of the environment and the people who nurture it. The 2007 theme is *Protecting Your Environment: The Power of One*. Majora Carter connects poverty alleviation and the environment in ways that benefit both concerns, demonstrating Clean-Tech solutions for the most persistent urban public health and global climate concerns. Majora Carter was born, raised, and continues to live and work in the south Bronx, an environmentally challenged community. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to fight for environmental justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs. She earned a 2005 MacArthur fellowship for her vision, drive, and tenacity as an urban revitalization strategist.

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Karen White and Tanya Michna: New Writings

Sun, Mar 9, 2008

Karen White returns to the South Carolina Low Country with her new novel, *The Memory of Water*. It is a story about death and family relations. Ms. White's first book, *In the Shadow of the Moon*, was published in 2000. It was a double finalist in Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award. She has since witten seven award-winning novels, and two more books are scheduled: *The House on Tradd Street*, (November 2008) and an untitled book set in Savannah, Georgia will be out in May 2009. She grew up in London and graduated from the American School in London. She lives in Georgia with her husband and two children. Tanya Michna's *Necessary Arrangements* is a story about two Georgia sisters who are also best friends. Ms. Michna has an extensive list of publishing credits, including essays in the Smart Pop books, *Perfectly Plum: The Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum*, *Trenton Bounty Hunter* and *Grey's Anatomy 101: Seattle Grace Unauthorized*. She lives in Georgia with her husband, two kids, and a book collection that takes up several rooms. This event was hosted by Wordsmiths Books.

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Guantanamo: Legal, Practical, and Moral Issues

Thu, Apr 24, 2008

John Chandler, his spouse Beth Tanis, and his colleagues at the Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan law firm represent seven men from Yemen who have been detained by the US government at Guantánamo, some for five years now. The Sutherland group has visited Guantánamo a dozen times, has traveled to Yemen to meet the families of these men and has filed habeas petitions in the US district court for the District of Columbia. During this luncheon presentation, Chandler talks about one such case. He is recognized in the *International Who's Who for Lawyers*, a Top 100 super lawyer by *Atlanta Magazine* and has been named to *Georgia Trend Magazine's* Legal Elite since its inception. This event is hosted by the Atlanta Council on International Relations.

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PBA
Five Lessons on Breast Cancer

Sat, Jun 7, 2008

Shelley Lewis introduces her latest book, *Five Lessons I Didn't Learn From Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did)*, which interweaves the author's personal story, interviews with breast cancer survivors, and a sharp-eyed journalist's look at the breast cancer “community.”

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