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Description:: Geraldine Heng talks to Peter Shea about the endurance of the King Arthur legend, the crusades, and the power of romance literature.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Heng, Geraldine
Created:: 2007-11-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Daniel Block talks to Peter Shea about his interest in maps, Geographic Information Systems, and his study of food access in urban areas.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Block, Daniel
Created:: 2011-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: John Anfinson talks to Peter Shea about the history of the Mississippi River and his work in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Anfinson, John
Created:: 2011-05-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Ryan Hill and Heather Stone talk about their involvement with Sandbox Theatre, and its production process, starting without a script and developing the play by communal inquiry and creative experimentation. They also describe their production for the 2009 Fringe Festival.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hill, Ryan| Stone, Heather
Created:: 2009-07-30
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Moishe Postone talks to Peter Shea about his interest in understanding the mass movements he was experiencing the 1960s and 1970s. He also discusses his purposes in teaching and the place of a critical emphasis in graduate education.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Postone, Moishe
Created:: 2008-04-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: J. B. Shank talks to Peter Shea about the early modern response to ancient ideas about mathematics.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Shank, J. B.
Created:: 2008-10-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13