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WGBH Lectures is a collection of public talks presented and produced in partnership with WGBH or recorded at WGBH studios in Boston. Our lectures cover a variety of compelling topics of local and world interest. For a listing of all Forum Network partners including all participating public stations and community partners hosting and contributing lectures to the Forum Network from across the country please refer to our Partners listing page. WGBH is proud of the role we serve in our community, of protecting and projecting the public voice; and of informing and inspiring that public voice to foster deeper understanding of and civic engagement in important issues.break

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Investigative Reporting and Post-Fact Politics

Wed, Jun 14, 2017

What’s it like uncovering hard truths in a world where the very idea of fact is up for debate? WGBH and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting host a discussion with top journalists, exploring the shifting impact of news investigations on today’s politics and policy making.

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BostonTalks: What's Brewin'

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

We’re talking brews: beer, coffee, tea and… music! WGBH’s BostonTalks series connects you with local leaders, stories, trends and each other. Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum’s Josiah George takes us back in time to the days of brewing and throwing tea overboard into the Boston Harbor. Ajiri Tea founder Sara Holby explains how the lives of women and orphans in Kenya are being improved through the tea and coffee that are purchased and brewed in Boston. Adam Ritchie’s band The Lights Out released its album on a can of Aeronaut Brewing Co. beer. That’s right—drink a brew and discover new music at the same time. Adam explains this journey. Matt DeLuca, head brewer at Castle Island Brewing Co., talks about brewing beer and using failure to the company’s advantage. Additional speakers to come. Tweet with Josiah (@bostonteaship), Sara (@ajiritea), Adam (@fontbandit), Matt (@cibrewing) and Edgar B. Herwick, III (@ebherwick3) using #BostonTalks.

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BostonTalks: What If?

Thu, Apr 20, 2017

What if there is life in space? What if technology is having a negative impact our lives? What if the concept of junk food didn't exist? WGBH News reporter **Craig LeMoult** (@clemoult) hosts a night of exploration into some big questions. **Mo Lotman**(@thetechnoskep), author and The Technoskeptic magazine publisher, takes a critical look at our relationship with technology and asks what would happen if we rethought this bond. Chew founder & CEO **Adam Melonas** (@adamchef) challenges our perceptions of health and junk food. What if we purchased food based on flavor and format instead of degrees of harm inflicted? MIT astronomer and Exoplaneteer **Jenn Burt** (@astrojennb) explains her work searching for planets and life in space. You can always add your comments to this talk on Twitter with #BostonTalks.

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BostonTalks: Risk

Thu, May 18, 2017

WGBH's Edgar B. Herwick, III (@ebherwick3) hosts a happy hour conversation with four very different experts in risk. Noah Wilson-Rich (@BestBees), co-founder of the Best Bees Company, discusses his work as a beekeeper and how he risks working with them to keep the pollinators—and their honey—in our lives. Tanya Hoke, Managing Director at Galen Diligence (@TanyaH), tells us about her decade-long investigation into the cannabis industry. Moran Cerf, a professor of Neuroscience and Business at the Kellogg School of Management and the LIJ department of Neurosurgery, discusses his experience as a computer hacker and teaches us what he has learned as he now studies the brain. Jeff Rogers (@professorjgrey), a freelance producer and consultant, talks about his experience working with young people who have severe emotional issues. He incorporates creativity and music into his job as a mentor to struggling youth. Photo Credit: A Syn/[Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/530211480 "RISK AWR WC T7L LosAngeles Graffiti Art")

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Corey Flintoff in Conversation with Jim Braude

Wed, Apr 5, 2017

WGBH's Jim Braude welcomes Corey Flintoff, former NPR Bureau Chief in Moscow, for conversation and Q&A with members of the Ralph Lowell Society. Recently retired, Flintoff was a radio journalist for nearly 40 years. He covered the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, the earthquake in Haiti, the revolution in Egypt and the revolution and civil war in Libya. He most recently served as NPR’s correspondent in Moscow for four years, reporting on the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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Discussion of The Race Underground

Sat, Oct 1, 2016

In the late nineteenth century, as America’s largest cities grew dangerously congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-pulled carriages clogging the streets with a faster, cleaner, safer form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston—a city of so many firsts—that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the selfish interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to construct America’s first subway. THE RACE UNDERGROUND tells the dramatic story of an invention that changed the lives of millions. Co-Presented with First Look, WGBH’s premier showings of its highly acclaimed new films. Image source: American Experience

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BostonTalks: Sex and Our City

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

We’re looking at Boston’s sexual history and how it has — or has not — shaped the city we know today. Writer and dance scholar Jessica Berson sheds light on the business and history of erotic performance. Independent scholar Lori Stokes shares how the Puritans might not have been so pure after all. Professor and author Stephanie Schorow takes us back in time to downtown Boston's adult entertainment district known as the Combat Zone. And Stephanie Berman, inventor of the Semenette, explains how she is making history by revolutionizing the way babies are made. Photo: By [Sailko](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 "") (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons

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BostonTalks: From the Ground Up

Thu, Jan 19, 2017

Host Edgar B Herwick III opens the floor to four local women who are helping to build a better Boston. **Liz Pawlak**, the Vice President of Design Museum, is using education to benefit design throughout the city. **Sumia Hussain**, the US Partnerships Coordinator at MassChallenge, promotes innovation through public-private partnerships, social impact, clean energy and water innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship. **Sheena Collier**, the Boston Promise Initiative Director at Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, calls herself a social broker, and connects people across beliefs, communities, organizations, and sectors. **Megan Amaral**, the Master Model Builder at LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Boston, uses the fun of Legos to innovate design to Boston buildings. (Photo:[Flickr/allenran 917](https://www.flickr.com/photos/allenran917/7884528374/in/photolist-d1JgAo-auW4Mb-dwdzQe-iTQgWp-dwj4wd-7B5Yo7-auTjCi-dwd812-dkUysX-6k6VWg-g2KfRC-fnv5AY-dwiP9w-pxBFsX-b751Cr-pxGtoC-dwc72e-dwhNks-pN14E1-qfJQBG-nDSK8p-qKTnbN-pxGxmY-kvADJh-pxB3n4-dkUyWM-pQbvuG-69NBrX-pANYhN-MDXE4-qhQz7V-7ooDBk-dwhXt7-pxEmaa-fZy6Aq-hPwsiq-qJmtL-MDYCX-7ooG4i-7W4947-sGode-fyPp8S-d92yWN-9L1SUx-nGMNEH-5PYcAn-e6sxeb-qCNKgC-8grTee-7oswXN ""))

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Biodiversity – News from Nature

Tue, Nov 15, 2016

Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photographer; Founder, The Photo Ark; Host, RARE Jessica Green, Biology Professor and Tech Entrepreneur, University of Oregon and Phylagen, Inc. (speaking on microbiome) Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institute for Science (speaking on forest biodiversity) (Photo: [Dom Dada/Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ogil/2540634421))

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Cities & Sustainability

Tue, Nov 15, 2016

Mark Bittman, Food Author, How to Cook Everything; and former New York Times columnist Toni Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Netherlands Photo: [Piush Dahal/Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/piush/with/4619312141/ "")

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