Thirteen Forum (audio) | Thirteen

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New 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.

Episodes

  • What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Food Politics - An Evening with Marion Nestle

    24/02/2010 Duration: 01h28min

    Marion 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

    17/02/2010 Duration: 01h30min

    In 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

    10/02/2010 Duration: 45min

    Hannah 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

    03/02/2010 Duration: 55min

    Examining a wealth of primary sources, author Jennifer Fronc examines the origins of the modern surveillance state.

  • Modernism and the Global Diaspora

    27/01/2010 Duration: 01h31min

    Artists, curators, and educators discuss the impact of the global art scene on modernism.

  • An Evening with Su Friedrich

    20/01/2010 Duration: 40min

    Filmmaker 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

    13/01/2010 Duration: 01h27min

    Helen 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

    06/01/2010 Duration: 02h37min

    Nobel 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

    23/12/2009 Duration: 01h14min

    Storytellers share their holiday memories at the Tenement Museum.

  • Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

    16/12/2009 Duration: 01h21min

    A 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

    09/12/2009 Duration: 01h28min

    Christopher 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

    02/12/2009 Duration: 01h09s

    The 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

    23/11/2009 Duration: 01h07min

    THIRTEEN 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.

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