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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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  • Moore in America

    Wed, Jun 17, 2009
    Mary Pat Matheson, executive director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, discusses what *TIME Magazine* named as one of the top 10 Museum Exhibitions of 2008. The Atlanta Botanical Garden is the final 2009 destination of the tour, with 20 of Henry Moore's monumental sculptures in a single locale. This talk is hosted by The Englishman Gallery of Atlanta.
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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

  • Peter Sagal: Wait Wait...PLEASE Tell Me!

    Fri, Dec 11, 2009
    Host of NPR's *Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!* Peter Sagal tells all about his life, his career, and the phenomenally popular radio show. His talk is with members of Public Broadcasting Atlanta's Cornerstone Society the morning after the show was taped before a live Atlanta audience.
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    PBA

  • Running for Atlanta Mayor on Arts and Culture

    Mon, Oct 12, 2009
    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.
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    PBA

  • Vivian Schiller: The Future of NPR

    Fri, Feb 20, 2009
    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.
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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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  • 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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    PBA

  • 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

  • Ken Burns on the Making of The War

    Tue, Aug 7, 2007
    Documentarian Ken Burns talks about the making of his new WWII retrospective. *The War* explores the history and horror of WWII from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history. Six years in the making, this epic, 14-hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns: Waterbury, CT; Mobile, AL; Sacramento, CA; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, MN.
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    PBA

  • Transportation Demands: Moving Forward

    Tue, Oct 30, 2007
    The Civic League for Regional Atlanta arranges this conversation by Georgia's Lieutenant Governor, Casey Cagle, on the many challenges created by Atlanta's rapid growth and relative lack of rapid transit.
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    PBA
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