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    <itunes:subtitle>Weekly lecture on public affairs, politics, science, technology, arts, culture, and more. Go on, live and learn by exploring our entire collection of great lectures.
		
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      <title>Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopian Contributions to World Music Instruments</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mulatu is one of Ethiopia's major musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, mastering vibraphone, keyboards, organ, and percussion, Mulatu is credited with adding instruments associated with Latin styles such as bongos and congas to Ethiopian music. In New York City he founded the Ethiopian Quintet (comprised mostly of Puerto Ricans), recorded his first album in 1966 before returning to Addis Adaba at the end of the decade, where he blended Ethiopian traditional music with Latin jazz to create a unique hybrid he called "Ethio-jazz." Recently, Mulatu has been the center of renewed interest in the West through a compilation on the Parisian series "Ethiopiques" (Buda Musique) and a 10" 4-track compilation on the Soundway label of Brighton England. Most notably, a number of Mulatu's compositions were featured in director Jim Jarmush's 2005 independent film Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray and Julie Delpy. While he remains a ubiquitous presence in the Ethiopian music scene, as club owner, music school founder, radio DJ, composer, arranger and instrumentalist, Mulatu frequently collaborates with the Massachusetts-based Either/Orchestra, one of jazz's longest running and most important large ensembles. 

Mulatu just completed a 2007-08 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, where his goals were to research how to develop the krarr, a traditional Ethiopian five-string instrument, with electronic music specialists; write an opera based on Ethiopian Coptic Church music written around AD 380, which will be conducted using the mekwamia, an ancient conducting stick; and write a book on the historical context of instruments used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church and their contribution to the development of world music. The first section of Mulatu's "The Yared Opera," which blends old and new was premiered at Harvard's Sanders Theater in April 2008. Mulatu hopes future performances of the opera which is based in part on the chant of St. Yared, the founder of Ethiopian church music, will feature live musicians in concert with the electronic version, and staged at the rock churches of Lalibela, a holy city in northern Ethiopia.

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mulatu is one of Ethiopia's major musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, mastering vibraphone, keyboards, organ, and percussion, Mulatu is credited with adding instruments associated with Latin styles such as bongos and congas to Ethiopian music. In New York City he founded the Ethiopian Quintet (comprised mostly of Puerto Ricans), recorded his first album in 1966 before returning to Addis Adaba at the end of the decade, where he blended Ethiopian traditional music with Latin jazz to create a unique hybrid he called "Ethio-jazz." Recently, Mulatu has been the center of renewed interest in the West through a compilation on the Parisian series "Ethiopiques" (Buda Musique) and a 10" 4-track compilation on the Soundway label of Brighton England. Most notably, a number of Mulatu's compositions were featured in director Jim Jarmush's 2005 independent film Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray and Julie Delpy. While he remains a ubiquitous presence in the Ethiopian music scene, as club owner, music school founder, radio DJ, composer, arranger and instrumentalist, Mulatu frequently collaborates with the Massachusetts-based Either/Orchestra, one of jazz's longest running and most important large ensembles. 

Mulatu just completed a 2007-08 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, where his goals were to research how to develop the krarr, a traditional Ethiopian five-string instrument, with electronic music specialists; write an opera based on Ethiopian Coptic Church music written around AD 380, which will be conducted using the mekwamia, an ancient conducting stick; and write a book on the historical context of instruments used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church and their contribution to the development of world music. The first section of Mulatu's "The Yared Opera," which blends old and new was premiered at Harvard's Sanders Theater in April 2008. Mulatu hopes future performances of the opera which is based in part on the chant of St. Yared, the founder of Ethiopian church music, will feature live musicians in concert with the electronic version, and staged at the rock churches of Lalibela, a holy city in northern Ethiopia.

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Yaron Brook  -'Apollo and Dionysus' Revisted</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 1969, Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum talk, 'Apollo and Dionysus,' addressed the near simultaneous events of Woodstock and the first lunar landing. Employing Greek mythology's god of the sun and god of wine, she compared the awe-inspiring accomplishments of NASA's Apollo space program to the famous three-day concert that has come to exemplify the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era." Almost four decades later, Dr. Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, reflects on her words and takes a new look at our society's drives toward individualism versus wholeness, light versus darkness, and civilization versus primal nature.

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:23:09 -0500</pubDate>
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Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Amy Dockser Marcus - Arab-Israeli Conflict: Peace Process or War Process</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Arab-Israeli conflict is a century old and still not resolved. The dispute between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs over the same land is bitter and deep, despite the fact that the disputed territory contains holy sites for the three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What is the nature of current tensions? What are their implications for US policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Dockser Marcus and Dr. Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and columnist for the New York Times Syndicate, focus on United States diplomacy in this conflict, debating whether it has been part of a peace process or a war process.

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:14:20 -0500</pubDate>
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Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Marian Wright Edelman - JFK, MLK and RFK: 1960-1968 Part II</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This forum focuses on civil rights though the eyes of those on the front lines of the movement. The second session features Marian Wright Edelman, founder and chairman of the Children's Defense Fund and an organizer of Dr. King's Poor People's March; Peter Edelman, aide to Robert F. Kennedy; and Elaine Jones, former President of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This session examines the period between 1963-1968 and the continuing relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy concerning civil rights and their growing opposition to the Viet Nam War. 

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:13:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This forum focuses on civil rights though the eyes of those on the front lines of the movement. The second session features Marian Wright Edelman, founder and chairman of the Children's Defense Fund and an organizer of Dr. King's Poor People's March; Peter Edelman, aide to Robert F. Kennedy; and Elaine Jones, former President of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This session examines the period between 1963-1968 and the continuing relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy concerning civil rights and their growing opposition to the Viet Nam War. 

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Barnaby Evans - WaterFire and the Public Art of Barnaby Evans</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Combining science and art, natural elements and soundscapes, Barnaby Evans is renowned for his category-defying multimedia public art installations. He created WaterFire, a sculpture/performance/social phenomenon that comprises one hundred bonfires burning from sunset to midnight in the rivers of downtown Providence, RI. Hear Evans talk about the power of public art and its complex interaction with our inner selves and our broader community.

Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:25:09 -0500</pubDate>
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Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.]]></itunes:summary>
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