Eric Dursteler talks to Peter Shea about formation of national and individual identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean, elaborating his research on the city of Venice and his book, "Renegade Women".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Dursteler, Eric
Created:
2011-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Van Duzer talks to Peter Shea about his collaborative research with his sister, Leslie Van Duzer, into the similarities of magic trick and architectural design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Van Duzer, Eric
Created:
2008-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Donald and Xenia Pestova talk to Peter Shea about their involvement in the Spark 2009 Festival, as part of their Digital Orchestra Project, utilizing digital musical instruments.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Donald, Erika| Pestova, Xenia
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Holmquist-Wall and Donald Myers give Peter Shea a tour of the installation "150 Years of Swedish Art" in the Hillstrom Museum at Gustavus Adolphus.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holmquist-Wall, Erika; Myers, Donald
Created:
2012-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Kate MacDonald, playwright and actor, talks to Peter Shea about the challenges she has faced acting in theater and writing one-woman shows, from Fluid, a "bisexual coming-of-age story", to Tap Me On The Shoulder, scheduled for five performances at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. They discuss different kinds of goals and mindsets that i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
MacDonald, Erika Kate
Created:
2013-07-29
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.
Eugene Quinn, radio producer, DJ, and writer, talks to Peter Shea. He describes his upbringing, his parents' appreciation of words, and his life in Austria as an expatriate from London. He discusses his work with cultural organization Space and Place on the Vienna Coffeehouse Conversations and describes some of Vienna's political, social, and et...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Quinn, Eugene
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eva Hudecova is a Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, and a co-translator of Slovak author Michal Hvorecký’s novel "Danube in America". She also spoke about the collaborative translation project in a discussion in April 2015.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hudecova, Eva
Created:
2015-05-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 13/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-11-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Freya Manfred, poet, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her childhood embedded in nature on her writing. She discusses the different poets and writers who have impacted her work and guided her as a person and poet. Growing up, Manfred had a rather solidary childhood. This is manifested in much of her work, which focuses on the human rela...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Manfred, Freya
Created:
2014-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Garrick Comeaux talks to Peter Shea about his pursuit of early music and singing, his travel through Italy and Germany, and his doctorate in sacramental theology.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Comeaux, Garrick
Created:
2009-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gary Kroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Plattsburgh State University. Trained in environmental history and the history of science, Professor Kroll is interested in the literal intersection of culture and nature. His project Roadkill Nation examines how Americans have thought about and dealt with the problem of animal...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kroll, Gary
Created:
2013-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Geoffrey Sirc talks to Peter Shea about his approach towards teaching writing composition, using unorthodox writing assignments to give students a position of personal authority.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sirc, Geoffrey
Created:
2010-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
