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The Forum Network is a public media service of GBH that collects thousands of video and audio lectures from the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policymakers, and community leaders, made available to the public for free on forum-network.org. Lectures hosted on The Forum Network are presented by community organizations and educational institutions from the Boston area and be

yond. From science to the humanities, from local to global topics, The Forum Network is committed to providing outstanding educational content for lifelong learners, and to encouraging deeper understanding and civic engagement around the vital issues of our time. Major support for Forum Network is provided by The Lowell Institute, an organization created to carry out the 1836 bequest of John Lowell Jr., to make free public lectures available to the citizens of Boston and beyond.

09/09/2025

Be the leader you were waiting for... because nobody is coming to save us.
Listen to Robert Reich's lessons of life and engagement.

09/08/2025

Just published! 👉 https://bit.ly/3KcfW1N
Robert Reich discusses his memoir, "Coming up Short: A Memoir of my America" with his friend, Harvard University emeritus professor, Richard Parker in a Harvard Book Store - CambridgeForum event.

09/08/2025

As Iran, China and Russia flex military muscles and Israel's blockade prepares to turn away another flotilla of relief for Gaza, maritime treaties governing cooperation are more important than ever. Dr. Steven Wills explains the UNCLOS cooperative framework for WorldBoston. Get the whole lecture here: https://bit.ly/3TrYNn5

09/05/2025

India has some pretty successful efforts to protect the olive ridley sea turtle; NPR reports.
Helping sea turtles safely hatch is an amazing experience. In this 2018 talk, David Cooch, co-founder of Green Gas Movement shared how it changed his life.

09/05/2025

Why moms are leaving their paid jobs; NPR asks.
Learn about the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century with this 2019 Harvard Book Store talk and UCLA Professor of History Katherine Marino: https://bit.ly/4a4KxGh

09/05/2025

Boston prepares for ICE raids as the DOJ sues its mayor for a sanctuary city policy. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a scholar of migration, describes a time when the U.S. didn't have migration detention centers. Hernández is the author of "Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants." Full talk: https://bit.ly/44zlIiv

09/05/2025

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is getting ready for an ICE offensive as the Trump administration targets sanctuary cities. Zooming out, journalists Ray Suarez gave us the bigger picture of global migration—and reaction—in 2024. Suarez is the author his own book on immigration, "We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century."

Watch the discussion here: https://bit.ly/4eXv0eq

09/05/2025

Learn about the heyday of railroad in Massachusetts and in particular about the central branch with Rick Kfoury, President of the Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society and the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation: https://bit.ly/4g4xc54

in 1908, novelist and short-story writer Richard Wright, among the first African American writers to protest white tre...
09/04/2025

in 1908, novelist and short-story writer Richard Wright, among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, was born. Learn more about his life and his time in France by signing up for this upcoming Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University talk: https://bit.ly/47tFP71

09/04/2025

Young driver deaths on pace to reach 10-year high in Mass; reports.
Learn more about how Massachusetts collects the data and the actions taken to reduce the fatalities, listening to MassDOT Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt in this 2024 talk.

Just published! 👉 https://bit.ly/4g4xc54Rick Kfoury, President of the Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society, tell...
09/04/2025

Just published! 👉 https://bit.ly/4g4xc54
Rick Kfoury, President of the Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society, tells the story of the Central Mass Branch of the Boston Maine Railroad and the end of an era steamed by rails at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation

09/04/2025

in 1921, Marguerite Higgins, female journalist and war correspondent (WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War) was born.
Learn more about women who changed American journalism with this 2024 American Ancestors talk and author Brooke Kroeger: https://bit.ly/3uYDy33

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The Forum Network is a public media service of GBH that collects thousands of video and audio lectures from the world's leading scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policymakers, and community leaders. We share these talks in their entirety with the public for free on our website, www.forum-network.org. These lectures take place thanks to community organizations and educational institutions all around the Boston area. From science to the humanities, from local to global topics, The Forum Network is committed to providing outstanding educational content for lifelong learners, and to encouraging deeper understanding and civic engagement around the vital issues of our time. Major support for Forum Network is provided by The Lowell Institute, an organization created to carry out the 1836 bequest of John Lowell Jr., to make free public lectures available to the citizens of Boston and beyond.