Dean Abrahamson talks to Peter Shea about the ongoing problems at the Fukushima nuclear powerplant following the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Abrahamson; Dean
Created:
2011-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
David Haynes, novelist and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about his career, from elementary teaching to direction of the creative writing program at SMU. He talks about his students and the ways in which his teaching helps his writing. He thinks about his readers and his own reading, then describes a course on Speculative Fiction he taught in 2013...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Haynes, David
Created:
2013-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
This folder contans materials created by/collected about Max Yergan, born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1892. He became an officer in the Student Christian movement in 1915, beginning a 25-year long association with the YMCA. With the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to organize YMCA units among the African regiments that the British Army wa...
Creator:
Yergan, Max, 1892-1975
Created:
1927 - 1930
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, talks, writings, biographical material, and diaries. The collection is arranged in two series: Seoul National University and Subject Files. The Seoul University series covers a period from 1954-1962, when the University underwent rebuilding after the end of the Korean War and Bailey served as a...
Created:
1958
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Part 8/16 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:
2010-10-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains materials created for/by the Silver Bay Human Relations in Industry Conference. Starting in 1917 and held at the Silver Bay Conference Center on Lake George, New York, the Human Relations in Industry Conference was organized by the YMCA's Industrial Work Department. The conference provided an opportunity for industry managem...
Creator:
National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Industrial Work Dept.
Created:
1975
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created for/by the Silver Bay Human Relations in Industry Conference. Starting in 1917 and held at the Silver Bay Conference Center on Lake George, New York, the Human Relations in Industry Conference was organized by the YMCA's Industrial Work Department. The conference provided an opportunity for industry managem...
Creator:
National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Industrial Work Dept.
Created:
1968
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created for/by the Silver Bay Human Relations in Industry Conference. Starting in 1917 and held at the Silver Bay Conference Center on Lake George, New York, the Human Relations in Industry Conference was organized by the YMCA's Industrial Work Department. The conference provided an opportunity for industry managem...
Creator:
National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Industrial Work Dept.
Created:
1968
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created for/by the Silver Bay Human Relations in Industry Conference. Starting in 1917 and held at the Silver Bay Conference Center on Lake George, New York, the Human Relations in Industry Conference was organized by the YMCA's Industrial Work Department. The conference provided an opportunity for industry managem...
Creator:
National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Industrial Work Dept.
Created:
1973 - 1974
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1952 - 1956
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1953
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1952
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed in the months before the United States entered World War II by a coalition of six civilian agencies to coordinate their civilian war efforts, including the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The YMCA and other welfare agencies had already been seeking ways to serve the morale needs of th...
Created:
1944 - 1950
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed in the months before the United States entered World War II by a coalition of six civilian agencies to coordinate their civilian war efforts, including the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The YMCA and other welfare agencies had already been seeking ways to serve the morale needs of th...
Created:
1943 - 1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
