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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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  • Arthur Blank, most notable for co-founding Atlanta-based Home Depot, reviews the Atlanta Falcons football season and takes questions on the economy at the Atlanta Press Club.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Atlanta mayoral candidates Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed, and Jesse Spikes outline their commitment to arts programs and how they would pay for them, if they win the November election. This forum is sponsored by the Metro Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition, and hosted by the Woodruff Arts Center.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • National Public Radio (NPR) President and CEO Vivian Schiller, on a special visit to Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) studios, gives a sneak peek into her strategy for the future direction of the network. PBA President Milton Clipper and General Manager John Weatherford provide introductions.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Joy Goodman, an educator for over 35 years, talks to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School about how her heart told her to leave her job and start teaching public speaking to kids. Joy talks for Liz Lieberman's *Grady Talks* program on how public speaking builds self-confidence. She tells stories of amazing success in getting shy students to stand up and present to others. Joy's offers tips to help young speakers find inner strength.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Tarick Sanchez, President of Make a Change Mentoring Organization, talks to a group of high school students at Atlanta's Grady High School about mentoring. He talks about creating a team of close associates to help you hold each other accountable. He asks, "What are you doing in your life right now that's going to create a legacy for your future?"
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Atlanta business Attorney, David M. Walker, tells a group of high school students at Atlanta's Grady High School the steps in starting a business. This talks is part of Liz Lieberman's Grady Talks program.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • June Akers Seese read excerpts from her fourth novel, Whose Coffee Is It? The narrator explores the courtship and marriage of a psychiatrist's widow whose memories span 50 years and move from Hartford, Connecticut to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Amanda Plumb leads a discussion of immigration stories of Atlantans who have emigrated from their home countries to the United States. Their stories span the past half century and around the world — from as far way as Poland, Vietnam, and Ethiopia; to right across the border in Mexico.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • LaShawn Cartwright, Senior Recruitment Consultant at Chick-fil-A, talks to a group of high school students about career planning. She advises students to discover what it is that they enjoy and use that discovery on their journey to obtaining their dream job. She then explains the variety of career opportunities at Chick-fil-A. She spoke at part of Liz Lieberman's Grady Talks program at Grady High School in Atlanta.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Denis Brosnan, CEO of Prommis Solutions, talks to a group of high school students about necessary evils in life. He tells about three tools that can help propel you forward in life. Modeling your behavior after others can help you fit in and do what people do. We join groups to accomplish more than we can do on our own. We can get great guidance from mentors. Denis talks about the pitfalls of using the three tools. This talk is part of Liz Lieberman's Grady Talks program at Grady High School in Atlanta.
    Partner:
    PBA