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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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  • How Working Women Can Own Their Life

    Thu, Apr 3, 2008
    Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at *Vanity Fair* and author of *The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?*, discusses the evolution of today's working mother and the key factors to consider when facing the choice of returning to work or staying at home. This *Own Your Self* event is hosted by Mom Corps, providing companies direct access to professionals who have opted out of the traditional workplace and enabling professionals to work in their respective fields, while simultaneously meeting familial needs and responsibilities.
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    How Working Women Can Manage Stress

    Thu, Apr 3, 2008
    Dr. Kathleen Hall, stress reduction and work-life balance expert, discusses the stressors facing today's working women and gives practical, actionable advice on lifestyle, career, home, and food changes that will lead to a more balanced life. This *Own Your Happiness* event is hosted by Mom Corps, providing companies direct access to professionals who have opted out of the traditional workplace and enabling professionals to work in their respective fields, while simultaneously meeting familial needs and responsibilities.
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  • How Working Women Can Own Their Career

    Thu, Apr 3, 2008
    Karen Glatzer moderates this *Own Your Career* discussion with Vivian Brown, Dabney Hollis, Rebecca Kaufman, Henna Inam, and Stacie Mundahl. This event is hosted by Mom Corps, providing companies direct access to professionals who have opted out of the traditional workplace and enabling professionals to work in their respective fields, while simultaneously meeting familial needs and responsibilities.
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  • NPR's Carl Kasell: The Man, The Magician

    Thu, Nov 20, 2008
    National Public Radio newsman and judge of NPR's *Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!*, regales Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) supporters with insight, stories and even a bit of magic. Kasell delivers newscasts during NPR's *Morning Edition*, a role he has held since the program's inception in 1979. PBA General Manager John Weatherford delivers a postscript message.
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  • Europe, the United States, and the World

    Tue, Nov 18, 2008
    Pierre Vimont, ambassador of France to the US, discusses Europe, the United States and the world.
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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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  • StoryCorps: Listening is an Act of Love

    Thu, Mar 2, 2006
    Dave Isay, founder of Sound Portraits Productions, describes the genesis of the StoryCorps oral history project, its progress and plans for expansion at the opening of the Atlanta Story Corps booth.
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  • Race Relations and Black History in Higher Education

    Wed, Apr 4, 2007
    Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin gives the Holmes-Hunter Lecture at the University of Georgia. Franklin, who is involved in a number of academic outreach efforts for Atlanta public high schools, compares the financial assistance for underprivileged youth to crime, with which she deals regularly in her position as mayor. She claims that there is no prescription for lowering crime that doesn't include increasing education. The Holmes-Hunter Lecture, which focuses on race relations and black history in regards to aspects of higher education, is given by an influential community leader each April. It was established in 1985 to honor Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who became the first African Americans to enroll at UGA in 1961. Previous speakers include Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Vernon Jordan, Nikki Giovanni, and Deborah Roberts.
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  • Inside NPR

    Thu, Aug 30, 2007
    Ken Stern, NPR's CEO, addresses and updates a group of Atlanta supporters. **Ken Stern** joined NPR as executive vice president in 1999 and became CEO in October, 2006. Since then, NPR has doubled its audience from 13 million to 26 million weekly listeners.
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  • 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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