This oral history session with former Swede Hollow residents took place at Metropolitan State University on October 28, 1995, organized by the Friends of Swede Hollow.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sanchelli, Joseph; Sanchelli, Michael
Created:
1995-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bruce Cutler was an American poet who wrote narrative long poems on subjects ranging from the settling of the American frontier to gangs in Chicago. His first book, The Year of the Green Wave, was published in 1960 and was followed over the next 40 years by a dozen more. The Massacre at Sand Creek told the story of the massacre of hundreds of Ch...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cutler, Bruce
Created:
1996-06-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Now chaplain at Minnetonka Shores Presbyterian Home in Minnetonka, Mary Pauluk was for a long time chaplain at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield, Minnesota. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to move back to small-town Minnesota after living in the big city.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pauluk, Mary
Created:
2002-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eugene McCarthy, retired US senator from Minnesota, now deceased, talks to Peter Shea on Good Friday. He compares the temptations of characters in the Good Friday story to those of American leaders during the Vietnam War: money, power, pride, belonging. He considers the dual nature of responsibility, the pressures that compel otherwise good peop...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McCarthy, Eugene
Created:
2003-06-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosalie Wahl, the first woman elected to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, talks to Peter Shea about the invasion of Iraq, the limits of executive power, international law, civil liberties, the judicial system, and the threats posed to American democracy. Peter Shea says: "My old friend Rosalie Wahl, who died recently, had to keep lots of her o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wahl, Rosalie
Created:
2003-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ron Reed, now deceased, was a Professor of Philosophy and Education and Director of the Analytic Thinking for Children program at Texas Wesleyan University. Probably his best known book is Rebecca, a text named after his daughter and used around the world to stimulate philosophizing by children.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reed, Ron
Created:
2005-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility. Taner Akcam discusses his new book, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (2006), with Eric Weitz. Taner Akcam was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History during 2006-07 and is currently associate professor in the Departme...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Akcam, Taner
Created:
2006-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wessels, Cletus
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Huff is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, and a professionally produced playwright. His philosophical interests have focused on a variety of problems in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, and issues raised by Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Huff, Douglas
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juanita Garciagodoy was born and raised bilingual, binational, and bicultural in Mexico City by a father from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and a mother from farm country in southwestern Minnesota. After college at Macalester in St. Paul, and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard, she taught literature, philosophy, and civics at a bilingua...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garciagodoy, Juanita
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
For over a decade, Kathy Kinzig was executive director of Eco Education, a Minnesota nonprofit offering an array of experiential, environmental education programs that inspire students to improve their academic performance, civic engagement and environmental stewardship. She passed away in 2008.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kinzig, Kathy
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Madelon Sprengnether talks to Peter Shea about two recent projects, a memoir and a book of prose poems, the process of choosing and developing a written form, and the power of films.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sprengnether, Madelon
Created:
2006-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Genocide Tribunals: Native Human Rights and Survivance. A lecture by author Gerald Vizenor, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who proposes establishing formal tribunals in various states to indict and prosecute alleged perpetrators, in absentia, of crim...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Vizenor, Gerald
Created:
2006-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
After graduating from Earlham College, Patrick Raines worked at the University of Minnesota as a research technician in the Fly Cognition Lab. He received a Masters of Science degree from the University of Missouri St. Louis with Prof. Aimee Dunlap. He has explored careers in substitute teaching, mosquito control and pacemaker manufacturing. In ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Raines, Patrick
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shohini Ghosh talks to Peter Shea about her films, the condition of women in India, and her aspirations and challenges as an activist and documentary filmmaker.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ghosh, Shohini
Created:
2006-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William LaFleur talks to Peter Shea about differences between the beliefs of Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian societies with respect to issues such as abortion and organ donation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LaFleur, William
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Pask talks to Peter Shea about his formation as a session mission, performer, and composer, his musical relationship to computers, and his enjoyment of the Spark Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pask, Andrew
Created:
2007-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anselm Hollo talks to Peter Shea about how he became a poet and translator, his involvement with Naropa University, and his thoughts about writing and quotation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hollo, Anselm
Created:
2007-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Brad Garton talks to Peter Shea about his notion that musicians set down future models of social interaction, his teaching, and his hopes for academic music.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garton, Brad
Created:
2007-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dan Burk talks to Peter Shea about his work dealing with questions of fallibility raised by scientific and technological evidence in legal cases, such as DNA and fingerprinting.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Burk, Dan
Created:
2007-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Don Kemp worked as a math teacher at North High School, Minneapolis, and as a minister. In this interview, he talks about his experiences growing up on the farm and in the church, his work in engineering and ministry, and the challenges of teaching math within and "around the edges" of the public education system.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kemp, Donald
Created:
2007-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work? Lecture and reception in honor of Kathryn Sikkink, recently named Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota. Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international hum...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sikkink, Kathryn
Created:
2007-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gregory Taylor talks to Peter Shea about his weekly radio show, his fondness for the Spark Festival, a modern objectivization of music, and his formative musical experiences, in particular, learning about Javanese gamelan.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Taylor, Gregory
Created:
2007-02-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Guerino Mazzola talks to Peter Shea about his appreciation of time and gesture in music, his views on music education, and the meaning of collaboration.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Mazzola, Guerino
Created:
2007-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jan Estep talks to Peter Shea about her developing interest in combining philosophy and art, including her interest in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Estep, Jan
Created:
2007-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kairn Klieman talks to Peter Shea about her use of comparative linguistic research to reconstruct the history of pre-colonial African peoples and ongoing anthropological racism towards indigenous Africans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klieman, Kairn
Created:
2007-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Love and Kitsch. Question and Answer session with Dr. Joshua Gunn (University of Texas) at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetoric Colloquium, Oct. 4 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gunn, Joshua
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marcus Nornes talks to Peter Shea about his interest in Japanese documentary cinema, including propaganda films of World War Two, and about the ways in which films present moral choices to their audience.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nornes, Marcus
Created:
2007-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marion Mahony. Presentation on Women in Architecture by Dr. Elizabeth Birmingham of Northwestern University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Birmingham, Elizabeth
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
