Susan Whitfield talks to Peter Shea about her intellectual expansion from particular historical topics to a broad concern with trade and cultural exchange over hundreds of years, including the Silk Road between Europe and China, and about the ways in which history is recorded and utilized.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitfield, Susan
Created:
2013-01-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Susannah Smith talks to Peter Shea about her interests in Russian history and Javanese gamelan performance, and about her work at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Smith, Susannah
Created:
2007-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sara Evans talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the civil rights and women's movements, and the relevance of those past movements to present-day activism.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Evans, Sara
Created:
2007-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ruth Mazo Karras talks to Peter Shea about her early interest in fantasy literature, her work reviving archived manuscripts, and love, sex, and marriage in Medieval times.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Robert Gilmer talks to Peter Shea about the flooding of the Mississippi River in April and May of 2011, giving a historical perpective on flood preparedness.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2011-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Patricia Hampl talks to Peter Shea about the lyric voice in memoir, the first person voice in American writing, and the role of memoir in making history.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hampl, Patricia
Created:
2009-10-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Nabil Matar talks to Peter Shea about his interest in the connections of literature, theology, and history, and accounts dealing with stories of captivity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Matar, Nabil
Created:
2009-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Moishe Postone talks to Peter Shea about his interest in understanding the mass movements he was experiencing the 1960s and 1970s. He also discusses his purposes in teaching and the place of a critical emphasis in graduate education.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Postone, Moishe
Created:
2008-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laurie Green talks to Peter Shea about the research that went into her book, "Battling the ‘Plantation Mentality’: Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Green, Laurie
Created:
2011-04-21
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.