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Hear a powerful call to action for achieving equality in leadership from Julie Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia (2010 – 2013) as she reflects on her new book Women and Leadership. GBH Forum Network Video: Women and Leadership  Recorded February 3, 2021 Using current research as a starting point, authors Julia Gillard  and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (The World … Continue reading Women And Leadership →

It’s time to trade in shortsightedness for long-term thinking. That’s according to author and philosopher Roman Krznaric, who writes about the power of ideas to change society in his new book The Good Ancestor. Recorded January 6, 2021 Krznaric outlines practical ways we can retrain our brains to think of the long view, including what … Continue reading How To Think Long-Term In A Short-Term World →

Professor Daniel Lieberman, Human Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard University discusses his new book, EXERCISED: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Were we really born to run? Are we meant to exercise from an evolutionary standpoint?

WADE DAVIS recently attracted global attention with his opinion piece in Rolling Stone magazine raising this question: Does Covid-19 signal the end of the American era? Why did he ask this disturbingly profound question and why has it struck a chord around the world? GBH Forum Network: End of the American Era? Recorded 9/25/2020 Wade Davis … Continue reading Does Covid-19 Signal the End of the American Era? →

Anthropologist Wade Davis latest book, MAGDALENA: River of Dreams brings to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future.  Wade Davis is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, who currently holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, at the University of British Columbia. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology … Continue reading Magdalena: River of Dreams →

In honor of the late US Congressman from Georgia John Lewis, here’s a special Cambridge Forum we recorded in 2001 at the national history museum in Lexington, Massachusetts. Lewis reflects on his lifetime of working for civil rights, first as a young lieutenant of Dr. Martin Luther King and later as a U.S. Congressman. Has … Continue reading Civil Rights: Yesterday and today →

Writer, poet and teacher CLINT SMITH in conversation with Jude Nixon, Professor of English at Salem State University.  Both men are educators and fathers, and their discussion explores what it means to raise children during this challenging period of Black Lives Matter.  Recorded July 24, 2020. Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and Emerson Fellow at New … Continue reading Parenting While Black →

This forum features three uniquely different farmers who are all equally passionate about smart and sustainable ways of growing our food. Recorded June 26, 2020 Addy Shreffler is a young but savvy farmer, who was an executive chef for several years before migrating into farming.  She is committed to spreading her farming knowledge so that … Continue reading Farming for the Future →

AINISSA RAMIREZ is a material scientist who is passionate about getting everyone excited about science, so much so that she calls herself a "science evangelist". In her latest book, she looks at eight world-changing technologies and examines how we shape inventions out of matter, and then how those inventions, in turn, shape us - from clocks to silicon chips!

John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist's lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.