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43 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 11 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsNew York City is home to the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers, and community builders. Now all the best speakers, lectures, and talks are available in one place: Thirteen Forum. Produced by PBS affiliate WNET Thirteen in New York City. Updated weekly in audio-only and video. Visit www.thirteen.org/forum for blogs, additional content and archives.
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James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering
January 17, 2013 17:34 - 775 MB VideoAn Imperfect Offering is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski, […] The post James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering
January 17, 2013 17:34 - 775 MB VideoAn Imperfect Offering is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski, […] The post James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat James Orbinski – An Imperfect Offering An Imperfect Offering
December 21, 2010 01:41Columbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film “Women Without Men.” Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and […] The post Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat & Carol Becker appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat & Carol Beckernullnullnull
December 21, 2010 01:41Columbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film “Women Without Men.” Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and […] The post Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat & Carol Becker appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat & Carol Becker
December 21, 2010 01:41Columbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film “Women Without Men.” Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share work, ideas and […] The post Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat & Carol Becker appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Shirin Neshat and Carol Becker
December 20, 2010 06:00 - 680 MB VideoColumbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film "Women Without Men."
9/11 and the Spirit of Volunteerism
December 16, 2010 17:15 - 1 Byte application/json; charset=UTF-8A three-person panel discusses how 9/11 sparked a greater movement of volunteerism across the United States and led to President Obama’s declaration of Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service. The esteemed panelists include Jay Winuk of MyGoodDeed, Bill Keegan of H.E.A.R.T. 9/11 and Jeff Parness, Chairman of the New York Says Thank You […] The post 9/11 and the Spirit of Volunteerism appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Michael Fitzpatrick and Rabbi Irwin Kula
December 14, 2010 18:31Musician Michael Fitzpatrick calls out for compassion and world peace with his cello. He shares his music and discusses the power of good vibrations with Rabbi Irwin Kula. Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers from across genres and around the world to share […] The post Bodies on the Line: Michael Fitzpatrick and Rabbi Irwin Kula appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Bodies on the Line: Claudia Bernardi and Mark Danner
December 06, 2010 14:15Claudia Bernardi, artist, printmaker and human rights activist presents samples of her work and has a conversation with award winning journalist and author, Mark Danner as part of Anna Deavere Smith’s colloquium on borders, Bodies on the Line. Bodies on the Line was a 9-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and […] The post Bodies on the Line: Claudia Bernardi and Mark Danner appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Realizing the 9/11 Memorial
November 15, 2010 20:029/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad details what inspired him to design a national tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the World Trade Center terror attacks in 2001 and 1993 as part of the “9/11, Today and Tomorrow” speakers series. Arad shares early designs of the memorial. Arad, a partner of Handel Architects, was […] The post Realizing the 9/11 Memorial appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Peter Balakian: Ziggurat
October 25, 2010 20:26New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian reads a powerful selection of 9/11-themed poems at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site’s “Today and Tomorrow” speakers series. The poems conjur feelings and imagery of the World Trade Center before and after the attacks. Balakian, a professor in humanities and English at Colgate University, has authored five books […] The post Peter Balakian: Ziggurat appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Quality, Taste, and Style: An Evening with Tim Gunn
September 27, 2010 06:08One of the hottest reality shows, Project Runway, introduced the world to the suave and unflappable Tim Gunn, former chair of the Fashion Design department at Parsons School for Design. Gunn discusses how the show became an overnight success. This consummate multi-tasker managed to show up every week as the star of two television shows, […] The post Quality, Taste, and Style: An Evening with Tim Gunn appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2010: Queen Latifah
August 26, 2010 14:44 - 416 MB VideoQueen Latifah conducts a conversation with a group of outstanding urban high school students and invites them to share their perspectives on school, community, peers, family, and future. The Celebration—presented by THIRTEEN and WLIW21—is a premier professional development conference that brings together the world’s best thinkers, practitioners, and more than 8,500 educators to share their […] The post Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2010: Queen Latifah appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Women in Charge: The Evolving Role of Women in Politics
July 28, 2010 06:16For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, we witnessed the historic campaign of the country’s first viable female presidential candidate. Yet, women in elected office hold only sixteen seats in the U.S. Senate and seventy-one in the U.S. House of […] The post Women in Charge: The Evolving Role of Women in Politics appeared first on THIRTEEN Forum.
Pop-Up Particle Physics from the Large Hadron Collider
July 07, 2010 06:00 - 788 MB VideoAlan Alda moderates as leading physicists Lisa Randall (Harvard) and Michael Tuts (Columbia), join CERN's Emma Sanders to explain new science coming from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, they share details of the ATLAS Experiment.
Escaping the Taliban
June 30, 2010 06:00 - 400 MB VideoDavid Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter for The New York Times, has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, and other countries. For seven months he was held captive by the Taliban before escaping.
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
June 16, 2010 06:00 - 465 MB VideoVice Present of Content for WNET.org Stephen Segaller speaks with author and associate editor of Britain's Observor, Robert McCrum. McCrum's new book traces the spread of English as the language of global capitalism.
Where Does Life Begin?
June 10, 2010 06:00 - 956 MB VideoTogether artist Michael Joaquin Grey and astrobiologist Chris Impey construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Grey and inspired by biological and social networks.
Understanding the Enemy: Counterterrorism and al Qaeda
May 26, 2010 06:00 - 485 MB VideoAs the FBI program manager and instructor at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, Bill Braniff conducts cutting-edge research in counterterrorism and trains law enforcement on how to "understand the enemy." Braniff's expertise helps officials to battle terrorism with a fresh perspective and greater understanding of Islamic ideology.
Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman
May 19, 2010 06:00 - 424 MB VideoPaul and Me is an intimate account by the bestselling author A. E. Hotchner of his remarkable, enduring, fifty-three year friendship with Hollywood legend Paul Newman. Hotchner shares their adventures: From travels across the globe to jointly owning fishing boats to coping with the loss of Newman's son, Scott, to starting their food company, Newman's Own, as a prank which has given all of its $300 million of profits to charities.
Mind Over Money
May 12, 2010 06:00 - 29.8 MB VideoIn the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money," an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the Crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. It's a show that reveals hidden money drives in us all and explores controversial new arguments about the world of finance.
9/11 and Trials of Terror
May 05, 2010 06:00 - 498 MB VideoA panel offers a dialogue with multiple perspectives on a complex subject - trying terror suspects in civilian courts and military tribunals, with a discussion regarding the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Panelists include Karen Greenberg, the executive director New York University's Center on Law and Security, and Dennis Farrell, a nationally recognized security expert with more than three decades in law enforcement, and New York State Supreme Court Judge Edward McCarty, an expert in military...
The Lady and the Sharks: An Evening with Eugenie Clark
April 28, 2010 06:00 - 362 MB VideoAt the third event in the Science & the City Girls Night Out series, world-renowned ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, founding director and senior research scientist at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, describes her fantastic and distinguished 60-year career studying deep sea sharks and tropical fish.
What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?
April 21, 2010 06:00 - 626 MB VideoWriter Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan: The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains that makes some of us upend tradition and most of us follow the herd?
The Addams Family: an Evilution
April 14, 2010 06:00 - 423 MB VideoTee & Charles Adams Foundation Director Kevin Miserocchi presents his new book, The Addams Family: an Evilution, in conjunction with The Museum of the City of New York's current exhibit Charles Addams's New York.
Sharing Our Humanity through 9/11 Remembrances
April 07, 2010 06:00 - 345 MB VideoStoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares remembrances by family members of 9/11 victims at The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum preview site.
Worse than War
March 31, 2010 06:00 - 25.2 MB VideoDaniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Worse than War" and writer of the upcoming PBS series of the same name, presents to members of the U.N. his controversial call for a fast-acting, military-empowered response to threats of genocide and other forms of "eliminationism."
Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal
March 24, 2010 06:00 - 514 MB VideoJournalist and business writer Kirstin Downey celebrates her latest book, a portrait of this devoted public servant, a woman who changed the landscape of American business and society. Frances Perkins was this country's first female cabinet secretary, and her work and actions greatly affected the New Deal and the whole of American politics at the time.
How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?
March 16, 2010 06:00 - 283 MB VideoArjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen. A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the brain and if Buddhist practice has anything to teach us about how we can control stress levels.
The Story of India
March 08, 2010 06:00 - 283 MB VideoFor "The Story of India," Worldfocus news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal interviews three prominent South Asians from the New York community. Issues range from the birth of feminism in India to the importance of the arts during Akbar's rule to the country's growth as a technological and economic power. Here are the three interviews, in their entirety, with educator and activist Shamita Das Dasgupta; the Executive Director of EnGendered Myna Mukherjee, and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Graduate ...
What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Food Politics - An Evening with Marion Nestle
February 24, 2010 06:00 - 684 MB VideoMarion Nestle will addresses the science of nutrition, explaining how hard nutrition science is to do and to interpret, and yet how easy it is for food marketers to confuse the science to sell products. She discusses the hot topics of sponsored science, functional foods, health claims, and self-endorsements, with audience questions following.
Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner
February 17, 2010 06:00 - 706 MB VideoIn the spirit of RMA's exhibition "The Red Book of C.G. Jung," personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a psychoanalyst and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation. This week features Matthew Weiner and Morgan Stebbins.
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
February 10, 2010 06:00 - 349 MB VideoHannah Pakula presents her work The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China, which tells the epic story of one of the most remarkable and controversial women of the twentieth century, and of the advent of the Asian superpower to which the United States is now inexorably tied.
New York Undercover
February 03, 2010 06:00 - 458 MB VideoExamining a wealth of primary sources, author Jennifer Fronc examines the origins of the modern surveillance state.
Modernism and the Global Diaspora
January 27, 2010 06:00 - 718 MB VideoArtists, curators, and educators discuss the impact of the global art scene on modernism.
An Evening with Su Friedrich
January 20, 2010 06:00 - 311 MB VideoFilmmaker Su Friedrich joins Union Docs for a film screening and discussion, following her workshop with the Union Docs masterclass.
Lust, Romance & Attachment: The Science of Love and Whom We Choose
January 13, 2010 06:00 - 692 MB VideoHelen Fisher has looked at marriage and divorce in 58 societies, adultery in 42 cultures, patterns of monogamy and desertion in birds and mammals, and gender differences in the brain and behavior. In her newest work, she explores who you are and why you are chemically drawn to some types more than others.
150 Years of the Origin of Species
January 06, 2010 06:00 - 1.27 GB VideoNobel Laureate and neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, psychologist Paul Ekman, and anthropologist Terrence Deacon tell us how Charles Darwin has influenced science and their own research.
Lower East Side Stories: Holidays in the City
December 23, 2009 06:00 - 586 MB VideoStorytellers share their holiday memories at the Tenement Museum.
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
December 16, 2009 06:00 - 627 MB VideoA panel discusses this film, which follows the international Gallup poll of Muslim opinion on matters from which their voices are often excluded.
Low Cost / No Cost and the City
December 09, 2009 06:00 - 709 MB VideoChristopher Allen, founder and director of UnionDocs, independent producer and new head of programming at UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren, Rich Siegmeister and Bob Morris of Reel13, and Keith Boynton and Mike Lavoie of 12films12weeks met at DCTV for a New York Film/Video Council discussion about low-cost filmmaking, exploring how filmmakers with low budgets can produce valuable work.
Caroline Alexander - The War That Killed Achilles
December 02, 2009 06:00 - 478 MB VideoThe story of the Trojan War is immortalized in Homer's epic of epic poems, The Iliad and brought to life in Caroline Alexander's The War That Killed Achilles - a work that dissects the epic poem in a manner relevant to all wars, from ancient Greece through today's Iraq.
Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre
November 23, 2009 06:00 - 523 MB VideoTHIRTEEN screens the newest Secrets of the Dead with a panel discussion including episode director Victoria Pitt, THIRTEEN producer Jared Lipworth, "Planet India" author Mira Kamdar, and Al Jazeera English correspondent Todd Baer, moderated by Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Journalism School. Recorded at The Journalism School, Columbia University, November 17, 2009.