Rosalie Wahl, the first woman elected to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, talks to Peter Shea about the invasion of Iraq, the limits of executive power, international law, civil liberties, the judicial system, and the threats posed to American democracy. Peter Shea says: "My old friend Rosalie Wahl, who died recently, had to keep lots of her o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wahl, Rosalie
Created:
2003-03-20
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diane Kastiaficas talks to Peter Shea about her memories of childhood which formed her as an artist. She talks about collectors and collections, showing a collection she made as a child, and about her work as a teacher.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Katsiaficas, Diane
Created:
2013-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jeffrey Broadbent talks to Peter Shea shortly after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, describing his experience with Buddhism, the task of providing energy to growing industrial cities, and the ways in which Japanese national policy relates to the natual environment.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Broadbent, Jeffery
Created:
2011-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bill Foley and Andrea Stanislav talk to Peter Shea about their recent research trip to Dubai, and an upcoming multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, global pluralism, and Dubai's highly ambitious architecture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
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.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hanna Kite talks to Peter Shea about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011 and how subsequent media coverage has "flattened" the stories about how the disaster has effected people’s lives.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kite, Hanna
Created:
2011-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Iain Biggs talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which his personal life has had an impact on his artistic work, and reflects on what he has learned from conversations while in Minnesota, in particular conversations with Dakota peoples.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Biggs, Iain
Created:
2012-10-22
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.
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.
Mary Modeen talks to Peter Shea about landscapes, teaching, art-making, and place, exploring notions of the unseen and emptiness. She also talks about finding a home as an American who teaches in Scotland and in feeling more at home in herself as she ages.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Modeen, Mary
Created:
2012-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Robin Gillette, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival since 2006, speaks retrospectively to Peter Shea about the success of the 2013 Fringe, the logistics of the festival, a participant's process of creating a Fringe production, and her decision to end her tenure as Executive Director.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gillette, Robin
Created:
2013-08-21
Contributed By:
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ryan Skinner talks to Peter Shea about his intellectual formation as a young man, including his study with Cherif Keita at Carleton College, and his desire to learn French, as well as identity, community, music, and the interplay between present and past in contemporary Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-10
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.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her most recent book, An Alphabet Not Unlike the World, and John thinks aloud about his changing reasons for writing and motivation to undertake writing projects. Both reflect on the changes in their lives and their writing since they became parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mageen Caines talks to Peter Shea about the force that shaped her–teachers, librarians, parents, friends. A student, veteran, mother, activist, and thinker currently enrolled in the school of public health at the University of Minnesota, she discusses her experiences in the military and her work with veterans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Caines, Mageen
Created:
2012-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Susan Whitfield talks to Peter Shea about her intellectual expansion from particular historical topics to a broad concern with trade and cultural exchange over hundreds of years, including the Silk Road between Europe and China, and about the ways in which history is recorded and utilized.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitfield, Susan
Created:
2013-01-23
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.