Sharon Day, Ojibwe, is executive director of the Indigenous People’s Task Force. Sharon is 2nd degree Midewin and follows the spiritual path of the Anishinaabe people;part of her spiritual practice is to care for water. In 2003 Sharon Day, Josephine Madamin and other Anishinaabe women began Mother Earth Water Walks to bring awareness about wat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Sharon
Created:
2015-07-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diane Kastiaficas talks to Peter Shea about her memories of childhood which formed her as an artist. She talks about collectors and collections, showing a collection she made as a child, and about her work as a teacher.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Katsiaficas, Diane
Created:
2013-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Trained as both a fine art photographer and as a geologist, Jonathon Wells describes his work as an embodiment of his commitment to "fostering dialog about human interaction with the earth through surface/subsurface photo-geologic composites." His process of creating these photo-geologic composites is both an artistic and investigatory process.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wells, Jonathon
Created:
2015-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Darlene St. Clair is Director of the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University, which provides services and resources for students, faculty and community members to research, teach about, and broaden their knowledge of historically excluded racial and ethnic groups of color in the United States. She is also a visiting professor...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
St. Clair, Darlene
Created:
2015-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pippa, Cristina
Created:
2016-04-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Simon Gikandi talks to Peter Shea about his interdisciplinary work connecting literary theory and literary history, his book connecting slavery and culture of taste, British colonialism, and modern identity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michal Hvorecký, born in 1976, is a writer, translator and director of the library at the Goethe Institute in Bratislava. He has published several books, including Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America) in 2010, which has been translated to English in collaboration with Profs. Eva Hudecová (U Minnesota – Twin Cities) and Mark Lencho (U Wisconsin – ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hvorecký, Michal
Created:
2015-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ot√°vio Bueno is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. "Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathemati...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bueno, Ot√°vio
Created:
2016-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.