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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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  • Beverly Hall discusses the changes that have taken place since she was appointed Superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) in 1999.
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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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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    PBA
  • 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
  • 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
  • General Electric Vice Chairman John Rice comments on his multi-national company's progress and policies, as well as ancillary issues of the day.
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    PBA