Professor Peter Weisensel, Professor of History at Macalester College, is a specialist in modern Russian history. In this March 2014 interview, he talks to Peter Shea about current events in Ukraine.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weisensel, Peter
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Taking Anna to the Zoo: Going to the Same Place A Lot, and Then Writing About What Happens Writers Katrina Vandenberg and John Reimringer frequently take their young daughter Anna to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. Katrina is working on a book about a girl named Anna, somewhat older than her daughter, who also frequently visits that zoo. We will ...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-03-13
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.
Dominique Tobbell is a historian of health care, business, and politics in the 20th century United States with a particular interest in the history of pharmaceuticals, health policy, and nursing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Workshop on How To Do Oral History Oral history allows us to access the many voices of history, not just the more powerful or dominant voices traditionally found in the written record. Many people utilize oral history in diverse ways across multiple disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences. Oral history can be a meaningful way to engage ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique; Sommer, Barbara; Shea, Peter; Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Panel Discussion on Oral History Theory and Practice Oral history allows us to access the many voices of history, not just the more powerful or dominant voices traditionally found in the written record. Many people utilize oral history in diverse ways across multiple disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences. Oral history can be a meaning...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique; Sommer, Barbara; Shea, Peter; Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
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.
Hong-Ming Liang, Ph.D., is Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth. He teaches and studies world history, Asian history, Taiwanese history and politics, human rights, global history and politics, nationalism and nation...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Liang, Hong-Ming
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Interns at The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies, supervised by Hong-Ming Liang, Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shane D. Courtland is the managing director of the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University. His main research interests lie in three different areas: political philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics. With Gerald Gaus, he is the author of the entry on Liberalism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His reviews have ap...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Courtland, Shane
Created:
2014-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Treacy has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has worked extensively with the Internet since 1995. As a former librarian, she is interested in making information accessible to more users -- by improving the pipes that the information travels through as well as improving organization of information. Towards that end, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Ann
Created:
2014-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Paul Hillmer is director of the Hmong Oral History Project and Professor of History at Concordia University. He is author of A People’s History of the Hmong (2009), based on over 200 oral history interviews. His six-part History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, examines Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Louis
Created:
2014-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Margot Fortunato Galt grew up a Yankee in South Carolina during the 1950s. Her memoir, poetry, and prose often return to this period, or to her Italian/American background. She has published seven books, two of which were nominated for Minnesota Book Awards. Her poetry and creative prose appear in five anthologies and many small-press journals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Galt, Margot
Created:
2014-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mike Hazard, poet and filmmaker, talks to Peter Shea and reads poems illustrating his remarks from his book, This World is Not Altogether Bad. He establishes the influence of his parents--his mother, a Renaissance scholar, and his father, an English professor--on his life and work. He reflects on America's "conflict between the two Walts" (Disne...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hazard, Mike
Created:
2014-04-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peg Meier has written seven books about Minnesotans, past and present. She was an award-winning reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 35 years before happily retiring in 2006. At the newspaper, she wrote mostly about ordinary Minnesotans who told her their extraordinary stories. Meier also found stories about Minnesota history, presented...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Peg
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thia Cooper is Associate Professor in Religion, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her teaching and research interests include theology and liberation, theology and development, faith and practice in faith-based aid agencies, non-western Christianities, and religion in Lat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cooper, Thia
Created:
2014-04-30
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.
Poet, environmentalist, and oral historian Joe Paddock grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections Earth Tongues (1985) and Handful of Thunder: A Prairie Cycle (1983) and the essay collection Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agricultur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paddock, Joe
Created:
2014-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Treacy, librarian and activist, talks to Peter Shea about her passion for information accessibility. She describes the conception of The Minnesota Center for the Book and how the center filled an important void in the world of libraries and information ciruculation. The Minnesota Center for the Book's first major project involved the preser...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Mary
Created:
2014-05-22
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.
Peter Redfield is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. His areas of expertise include Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine;Humanitarianism and Human Rights;Colonial History;Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts;Europe;French Guiana;Uganda;South Africa.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Redfield, Peter
Created:
2014-07-21
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.
Joe Gergen, author, talks to Peter shea about his childhood. He discusses how he transformed from an introverted child to a confident writer. He studied both mathematics and English, and his full-time occupation is in analysis. Gergen discusses how he balances his passion for writing with his career. Gergen is the author of two books, and he als...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gergen, Joe
Created:
2014-07-28
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.
Michelle Filkins, professor and librarian, talks to Peter Shea about the conception of Spout Press. As a founder and editor, Filkins discusses the evolution of the publishing business, as well as how Spout Press has adapted and changed since 1989. Filkins also talks about her involvement with the writing scene and community of Minneapolis. She i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Filkins, Michelle
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sarah Stonich, best-selling author, talks to Peter Shea about her writing process. She discusses the influence of Minnesota in her novels. Stonich recounts the story of her building a cabin in northeastern Minnesota with her young son following her divorce. This process motivated her to write a memoir on the events. She discusses how this connec...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stonich, Sarah
Created:
2014-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She has written, performed, and otherwise collaborated on performance, film, music, and public art works throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2014-08-01
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.
The late Jerry Blue was a senior librarian for Hennepin County and a renowned storyteller. He died in October 2014. In this interview, he talks about how he came to tell stories and how he helped others to tell their own.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Blue, Jerry
Created:
2014-08-11
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.
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.
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.
Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) since 2002. Writing about his work in Austria, Balluch says activism has given Austria animal protect...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Balluch, Martin
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Milena Klimek is a Masters student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. Her research title is "Farmer and Consumer Practices;A Social Theory Perspective of Organic Partnerships in Austria and Minnesota".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klimek, Milena
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebecca Louise Paxton is a graduate student working in the Institute for Organic Agriculture, a part of the University of Natural of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Her thesis work explores the meaning of one of the ethical principles that guide the organic agriculture movement in Europe: "Organic Agriculture should sustain and en...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paxton, Rebecca Louise
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Schmidinger, political scientist, social and cultural anthropologist, and scholar of the Middle East, talks to Peter Shea. He recalls his wealthy, conservative Catholic upbringing as it framed his early awareness of racial and social inequity and prompted his interest in the Middle East and the relationships between religion, state, and s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schmidinger, Thomas
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Johanna Kandl is an Austrian painter. Her work seeks to expose myths of religiosity, historical constructions, capitalism, to distort them to the point, as it is neatly put, that they become recognisable.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kandl, Johanna
Created:
2014-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Salah Ammo, Kurdish musician, talks about his path to musicianship, his childhood experiences of nature, and his family. He talks about Syria's many layers of cultural history, his Kurdish background, and his life and music in Damascus and Vienna. He mentions his son's experience of moving from Syria to Vienna.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ammo, Salah
Created:
2014-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Norbert Hintersteininger is a software designer for breeding software for rare domestic animals and a preserver of rare breeds in Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hintersteininger, Norbert
Created:
2014-09-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Isabel Ettenauer, concert toy pianist, talks to Peter Shea about how she came to perform on toy pianos through the music of John Cage. She describes varieties of the instrument, her collaborations with composers, and why she likes playing the toy piano. She considers her relationship to the classical piano canon.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ettenauer, Isabel
Created:
2014-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peter Kampits, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences and travels as a student and professor of philosophy, and his progression of interests from existentialism (Sartre & Camus) to analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein) to the practical discipline of biomedical ethics. He complains tha...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kampits, Peter
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Stefan Heid was trained as an ethnologist, works in the family used car business near Edlitz, and writes about Burgenland. In this interview, he talks about returning home after much travel abroad.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Heid, Stefan
Created:
2014-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Manuel Esnoz is an Argentine visual artist and painter. He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York..
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Esnoz, Manuel
Created:
2014-10-28
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.
Professor Jürgen Kocka is Permanent Fellow at re:work International Research Center. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases on...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kocka, Jürgen
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
