David Chang talks to Peter Shea about modern American attitudes towards historical seizure of Native American lands, about the history of the official story, and the role of historical study in demonstrating the choices that went into events.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Chang, David
Created:
2008-05-28
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.
Daniel Trudeau is Assistant Professor of Geography at Macalester College. As an urban social geographer, Trudeau is particularly interested in ways that social, political, legal and economic processes influence city life and landscapes, as well as the ways that people and organizations create meaningful places and landscapes through participatio...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trudeau, Dan
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, continues, drawing connections between Shakespeare, Stanislavski, the Bible, and childhood experiences. He considers how these insights helped him to prepare as an actor and to teach a young girl to prepare. He talks about dynamics of race and casting, and his preparation for two challenging roles: the charac...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark talks to Peter Shea about his wife, Mattie. He recalls memories of her: their childhood experiences in Mississippi, her personality and determination, her family and upbringing, her love of reading, and her labor in cotton fields. He remembers her exposure to the "southern argot" and recalls her gifted storytelling, beginnin...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2014-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark came north from rural Mississippi to Minneapolis at 19, went to work in the post office, and began to act. He got his big break at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and toured with that play and others for several years. Now taking only occasional work, he reflects with Peter Shea on how ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-07-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-08-13
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.
Dana Whitco talks to Peter Shea about the work of the Center for Creative Research fostering collaboration between contemporary U. S. movement artists and investigators across the arts and sciences.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitco, Dana
Created:
2013-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dakota Hosta, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist and her involement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She talks about some ideas from feminist art theory which inform her work, the future of her art practice, and she exhibits three pieces she produced at the I...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hosta, Dakota; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
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.
Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hassel, Craig
Created:
2015-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Conevery Valencius is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she writes and teaches about U.S. environmental history, the history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. Her recent projects have focused on the history of earthquakes and seismology, the history of the environmental sciences, a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Valencius, Conevery
Created:
2015-04-10
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.
Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Morris, Christopher
Created:
2015-04-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Fischbach is Publisher at Coffee House Press. In this interview, he talks to Peter Shea about how he became involved with Coffee House, the publication decisions he makes, his relationship to the authors of published works, and the Press's commitment to experimental writing and diverse writers.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fischbach, Christopher
Created:
2014-08-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Kliesen Wehrman talks to Peter Shea about the pluralist spirit of her upbringing, the ways in which art helps her understand theology, and comparisons between theater acting and pastoral work.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wehrman, Christine Kliesen
Created:
2013-07-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Baeumler talks to Peter Shea about her formation as an artist, about work in East Palo Alto, in the Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, and as the artist-in-residence for two watershed districts in St. Paul, and also about a course she is teaching in spring 2013 with two colleagues, Kristine Miller and Valentine Cadieux, called "Slow Art and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine
Created:
2012-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Kosowski is a founder of the North End Community Garden. In this interview, she talks about how and why the garden was established, its constituency, and how the land is managed.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kosowski, Chris
Created:
2014-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Citron talks to Peter Shea about The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus College, a retrospective exhibit of artwork by her grandmother, leading abstract expressionist Minna Citron. She talks about her involvement with Minna Citron's art, growing up in an artistic milieu and acting as he...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Citron, Chris
Created:
2014-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cherif Keita talks to Peter Shea about growing up in Mali, his intellectual life in Minnesota and Africa, come surprising connections he has discovered between Northfield, Minnesota and South Africa, dating back to the 19th century, and about the work done by his father to further education in Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Keita, Cherif
Created:
2012-11-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Charlotte Bruckermann (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. Her research concerns "Homemaking in Rural China. Women’s Everyday and Ritual Work in Generating Notions of Place".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bruckermann, Charlotte
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Charles McGovern talks to Peter Shea about his interest in American popular culture, his work at the Smithsonian, and his belief in the "seriousness" of pop culture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McGovern, Charles
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chandos Brown talks to Peter Shea about his own personal encounter with history, as the son of a career Marine Corps father, and about his efforts to convey the idea that lives matter to his students.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brown, Chandos
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cathy Jordan, PhD, LP, pediatric neuropsychologist by training, is an associate professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is also an Extension Specialist in the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality. Cathy has two primary are...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jordan, Cathy
Created:
2015-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Meier's work explores the meaning of "open space" through animation, site-specific installations, and large-scale prints and drawings. Representing a state of mind as well as a state of being, these expansive works are redolent of the artist’s own travels crossing the Great Plains of North America and the Mongolian Steppe where her e...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Catherine
Created:
2014-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Levesque talks to Peter Shea about her interest in art history, natural landscapes, and Dutch artists’ role in shaping a new vision of nature in the years around 1600.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levesque, Catherine
Created:
2013-02-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Caryl Clark talks to Peter Shea about her interest in Austrian classical composer Franz Joseph Haydn, both as a musician and as a member of many different social circles.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Caryl
Created:
2008-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Caroline Walker Bynum talks to Peter Shea about the roots of her interest in medieval European history, religion, and spirituality, tracing the evolution of her projects.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carolyn Halliday is a textile and sculpture artist based in Northeast Minneapolis, who manipulates natural materials using fiber techniques to create work centered around the themes of nature, the body, ecology, and evolution.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Halliday, Caroline
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carla Rahn Phillips talks to Peter Shea about her interest in the history of Early Modern Spain and the Atlantic, including maritime and naval history.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Phillips, Carla Rahn
Created:
2009-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carla Nappi talks to Peter Shea about her research in excavating the peoples and practices of official translation bureaus in Ming and Qing China, using dictionaries and glossaries as literary texts.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nappi, Carla
Created:
2012-12-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
