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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • African Americans and the Environment

    Thu, Apr 19, 2007
    WABE-Atlanta radio talk show host Valerie Jackson moderates a town hall-style panel discussion on Global Warming and other environmental challenges, featuring national environmental leaders. The event includes a video message from Congressman John Lewis, a letter read from Senator Barack Obama, and a spoken word performance by Doria Roberts. This National African American Earth Day Summit is sponsored by The Keeping It Wild program, which is a series of events to raise public awareness about the importance of Southeastern wild lands. This event honors the contributions of African American conservationists, re-energizes and builds partnerships among diverse communities engaged in natural lands protection in Georgia and the Southeast. Keeping it Wild 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 our wildlands.
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    PBA

  • Creating an Impact in Human Rights

    Thu, May 17, 2007
    John Prendergast, a Clinton administration adviser and avid human rights activist, discusses his involvement in a number of peace processes throughout Africa.
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    PBA

  • Creating an Impact in Rights Activism

    Thu, May 17, 2007
    The Georgia Nonprofit Summit presents Marc Freedman as he discusses changes and transformations affecting our work, our communities and the world. Civic Ventures is a think tank and an incubator, generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. Founded in the late 1990s by social entrepreneur Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures is reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining the second half of life as a source of social and individual renewal. Through research, publishing, conferences, and media outreach, Civic Ventures reports on the growth of the experience movement. Civic Ventures brings together older adults with a passion for service and helps stimulate opportunities for using their talents to advance the greater good.
    Forum Network
    Civil Rights Movement Series
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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

  • Atlanta's Workforce: Competing in a Global Economy

    Thu, May 31, 2007
    Atlanta community stakeholders discuss the opportunities associated with high school reform. Atlanta Public Schools is embarking on one of the most comprehensive and innovative approaches to high school reform in the nation. It designs its new small schools of learning under the rubric of "High School Transformation," which plays a major role in ensuring that students are learning the skills they need to get good jobs in industry. The opportunity is real, and this transformation will be carried out in three waves during the next five years. The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce helps discover how to bridge the gap.
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    PBA

  • Caregiver Relief

    Tue, Jun 16, 2009
    North Fulton Regional Hospital presents a panel discussion on caregiver relief and the options for those who care for others, whether professionally or through personal responsibility. Leena Dutta, Ranjan Paul, Ruth Sarmiento, Fred Whitehurst, and Kamela Sooknanan are panelists, and Community Education Coordinator Diane Sanders and Marketing Coordinator Joanna Stotter also participate. WABE Science Reporter Jim Burress moderates.
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    PBA
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