Speakers Forum

Puget Sound PR

A collection of lectures from respected academics, writers, public radio personalities and activists.

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Seattle, WA

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Lectures

Ideas

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Puget Sound PR

Description:

A collection of lectures from respected academics, writers, public radio personalities and activists.

Twitter:

@KUOW

Language:

English

Contact:

4518 University Way NE, Suite 310 Seattle WA 98105 206-543-2710

Website:

http://kuow.org/programs/speakers-forum

Email:

speakersforum@kuow.org

Episodes

Conjoined twin slaves and addiction: Poems from 'Gramma'

10/11/2018

Duration:00:57:23

'Uninterested audience? Maybe you're just boring'

10/5/2018

Johnson shares a few of his strategies when having difficult and divisive conversations with his fellow Americans.

Duration:00:43:55

Is the marketplace messing up social change?

9/27/2018

Author Anand Giridharadas on what happens when wealth meets social change

Duration:00:51:46

2018 Smoke Farm Symposium: Watersheds, dementia and 'fake news'

9/20/2018

Get out of town for talks on our in-between times

Duration:00:49:31

'Look, we're living in bizarre times,' says John Kerry in Seattle

9/18/2018

Former Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry embraces the straight talk mantle.

Duration:00:59:21

'Retreat, or perish in place': First-hand accounts of sea level rise

9/16/2018

As sea levels rise and coastal populations increase, more people are subject to flooding. Author Elizabeth Rush compiled research and the stories of people affected by sea level rise for her new book “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.”

Duration:00:52:39

Justice Sonia Sotomayor shares her life story with young readers

9/10/2018

Duration:00:43:23

A second life: The poetry of Iraqi-American Dunya Mikhail

9/9/2018

Duration:02:06:26

The soccer scandal that stretched across the world and into the White House

Duration:00:54:03

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Duration:00:58:01

Barn-raised Smoke Farm talks provoke summertime reflection

8/23/2018

This week on Speakers Forum we open a time capsule from last summer. It comes from the annual Smoke Farm Symposium. We were drawn there several years ago when the creators gave us a recording of some fascinating talks, punctuated by rainfall on the roof of a barn up in Arlington, Washington.

Duration:00:57:53

Welcome to SeaCouver! Envisioning the Northwest of the future

8/18/2018

In the struggle to shape what life on earth will be like years from now, visionary futurists inspire us with dread and hope at turns. Author Brenda...

Duration:00:58:01

A novel idea from an environmental activist: Secession

8/12/2018

Northwesterners and people around the world have been inspired by Bill McKibben’s prolific environmental activism. McKibben took some time off from his...

Duration:00:51:42

Bees: The 'hippie wasps' we all need

8/5/2018

It seems there’s a "how things work" theme on Speakers Forum recently. Last week it was tides , this week, bees. Our guide is Thor Hanson, an uber...

Duration:00:52:59

A sailor's poetic primer on the science of tides

7/29/2018

Before you listen to this talk by Jonathan White , you might want to be somewhere by the sea as the moon rises or sets. That would be ideal. If not that, be somewhere where you can search maps of all the far-flung places he’ll talk about. You’ll likely have that urge.

Duration:00:50:50

It took a village, and a pediatrician, to expose the Flint water crisis

7/22/2018

The city of Flint, Michigan represents the height of American ingenuity, productivity and economic progress — and also the mirror opposite.

Duration:00:54:39