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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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  • Jackie Collins: Married Lovers

    Thu, Jun 26, 2008
    In her latest sizzling book, internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins explores what happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power--and the results lead to murder. Collins is the author of more than 23 books, including *Hollywood Divorces* and *Deadly Embrace*. This event is hosted by Outwrite Books.
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  • Jon McTaggart: Inside American Public Media

    Tue, Jul 8, 2008
    Jon McTaggart, chief operating officer of American Public Media (APM), talks to Public Broadcasting Atlanta's special group of supporters, known as the Cornerstone Society. APM produces programs like *MarketPlace* and *A Prairie Home Companion*.
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  • Travis Stork: Don't Be That Girl

    Fri, Jan 11, 2008
    Travis Stork discusses his new book, *Don't Be That Girl*. A must-read for those who fell for Dr. Stork's down-to-earth charm and irresistible bedside manner, *Don't Be That Girl: A Guide to Finding the Confident, Rational Girl Within* is a book that helps readers get past self-defeating behavior and find their own fairy-tale ending. **Travis Stork**, as the star of *The Bachelor: Paris*, has a lot of experience with meeting and dating different types of women. As an emergency room doctor, Stork regularly helps patients cope with trauma, depression, accidents, and other ailments. In *Don't Be That Girl*, Stork combines his personal and professional expertise to help women get over low self-esteem and recognize the qualities in themselves that make them attractive to men.
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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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  • Verdi: Italian Romanticism and Il Trovatore

    Wed, Feb 25, 2009
    Carter Jopseph offers an examination of Verdi's masterwork. He discusses the plot, characters, and structure of the opera, and plays several musical highlights of Verdi's most passionate, most melodic score. This event is hosted by The Englishman Gallery in Atlanta.
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  • Dear John: Addressing Child Sex Exploitation

    Tue, Aug 21, 2007
    Dear John, a public education campaign under Atlanta Women's Agenda (AWA), aims at ending the commercial sexual exploitation of children, is a collaboration by Mayor Shirley Franklin, the Juvenile Justice Fund and a wide-range of supporters. The campaign seeks to educate and activate audiences to help stem the problem, which also results in children withdrawing from schools and their families, entering into poverty and becoming more susceptible to health risks. The Atlanta Women's Agenda (AWA) is an initiative of Mayor Shirley Franklin to highlight issues affecting women and bring together new energy for change. AWA coordinates quarterly roundtables on women's issues, develops strategies to end child prostitution and seeks to gain women's full participation in civil society.
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  • Tutankhamun: Golden King, Great Pharaoh

    Wed, Mar 18, 2009
    Clare Fitzgerald, from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, discusses the two current exhibitions about the most famous archaeological discovery of all time: King Tut's tomb. Fitzgerald also discusses the photography of Harry Burton, who documented the Tutankhamun excavation when the tomb was discovered in 1922. This event is hosted by The Englishman Gallery in Atlanta.
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  • NPR's Linda Wertheimer and New WABE Staff

    Tue, Mar 17, 2009
    Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Linda Wertheimer, and 90.1/WABE-FM's Denis O'Hayer and John Lemley discuss issues of the day in this Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) event at the Altanta Botanical Garden. PBA General Manager John Weatherford introduces the event.
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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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  • 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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