Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about her writing and how she came to write about racism and her students. She explains how her primary pursuits in later life have moved away from direct i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Landsman, Julie
Created:
2014-03-03
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Schumacher talks to Peter Shea about the development of her interest in words and writing, and how she arrived at short story writing and fiction.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schumacher, Julie
Created:
2009-11-19
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juliet Schor talks to Peter Shea about her early intellectual formation, her growing dissatisfaction with conventional economics, and her decision to write for a general audience (as well as an academic audience).ÔøΩ She also talks about connections between activism and the academy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-05
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juliette Cherbuliez talks to Peter Shea about her interests in French Early Modern literature, the Medea myth, and stories of murder carried out by women, and how they frame our evaluations of violence. She also speaks about her educational ideals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cherbuliez, Juliette
Created:
2009-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Justine DiFiore, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist. She exhibits a portrait of photographer Wing Young Huie she produced at the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She discusses her affinity for portraiture and what she considers valuable and authentic in her work. Sh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
DiFiore, Justine; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, talks to Peter Shea about her writing, her inspiration, her Hmong identity, and her co-founding of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Yang, Kao Kalia
Created:
2008-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karen Campbell talks to Peter Shea about dams, levies, earthquakes, natural disasters, and the uncertainty of human impact upon the earth and environment.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Campbell, Karen
Created:
2011-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karlheinz Essl, composer, computer musician, and improviser talks to Peter Shea. He talks about playing progressive rock and finding the "utopian" concepts of Karlheinz Stockhausen as a teenager, and explains his ideals of musical experience with reference to the ideals of John Cage. He describes how his memories of playing prog rock came back t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Essl, Karlheinz
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karl Rogers talks to Peter Shea about the meaning of democracy, its necessity for the survival of humanity, and his involvement with the John Dewey Center for the Study of Democracy in Education.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rogers, Karl
Created:
2011-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, where she studies the coupled interaction of land-use change and water resources. Kate brings together the study of hydrology and plant-water relations with economics and policy to explore the effects of land cover ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brauman, Kate
Created:
2015-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katharina Hagenhofer is a graduate student in organic agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, studying the mechanisms by which young people acquire land or access to land for farming.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hagenhofer, Katharina
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kat Hayes is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of agency, negotiation, resistance, and opportunistic power demonstrated by peoples who history once popularly regarded as having been totally powerless in contexts of European colonization, like indigenous communities and enslaved Afric...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hayes, Kat
Created:
2015-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathleen Ryor talks to Peter Shea about her development as an art historian and her work on the Ming dynasty painter Xu Wei. She talks about her recent interest in the connections between the world of the military and the world of the artist in late Ming China. She discusses the ways in which the subject of art history is explicitly interdiscipl...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ryor, Kathleen
Created:
2012-11-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathryn Jensen talks to Peter Shea about an organization she founded, designed to remove barriers to athletic participation for children with disabilities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jensen, Kathryn
Created:
2013-04-14
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.
Katrina Vandenberg, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about her latest work. She discusses the book inspired by a trip to the zoo with her daughter Anna, as well as reading an excerpt from it. John Reimringer, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about his motivation for writing. Reimringer talks about the necessity of pushing one's...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vandenberg, Katrina; Reimringer, John
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ken Meter talks to Peter Shea about the problems of the inner city and rural areas: both are sites where people work hard but economies are set up so resources are extracted from those areas. Meter argues that inner cities and rural areas are becoming an American Third World.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meter, Ken
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Kristin
Created:
2013-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Bridget Regan talks to Peter Shea about discovering herself as a musician. She talks about writing, adolescence, Bipolar Disorder, and her move from her home in Boston to New York.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Regan, Laura Bridget
Created:
2012-08-20
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.
Lawrence Venuti talks to Peter Shea about how he came to be a translator, the role that translation plays in world literature, the invisibility of the translator, translation and difference, and the pedagogy of translation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Venuti, Lawrence
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
LeAnn Holland talks to Peter Shea about adult development in light of her experience as an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast, and about moving away from the omnipresence of chairs.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holland, LeAnn
Created:
2013-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about some ethical questions that arise when writing plays based on real events using oral history interviews with real people.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2008-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2010-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
