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Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, on Chinese Islam, Sep. 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, on Chinese Islam, Sep. 2013
Karlheinz Essl, Composer, Aug. 2014
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Karlheinz Essl, Composer, Aug. 2014
Julie Landsman, Teacher and Author, Mar. 2014
Description:
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Julie Landsman, Teacher and Author, Mar. 2014
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on August Wilson, Aug. 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on August Wilson, Aug. 2013
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic Languages, on Soviet Posters, Oct. 2013
Description:
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena
Created:
2013-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic Languages, on Soviet Posters, Oct. 2013
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on his Early Life, Jul. 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on his Early Life, Jul. 2013
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Description:
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Description:
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Peter Redfield, Anthropologist, July 2014
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Peter Redfield, Anthropologist, July 2014
Eugene McCarthy, Retired Senator, on Ethics and Government, 2003
Description:
Eugene McCarthy, retired US senator from Minnesota, now deceased, talks to Peter Shea on Good Friday. He compares the temptations of characters in the Good Friday story to those of American leaders during the Vietnam War: money, power, pride, belonging. He considers the dual nature of responsibility, the pressures that compel otherwise good peop...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McCarthy, Eugene
Created:
2003-06-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Eugene McCarthy, Retired Senator, on Ethics and Government, 2003
Burnham Terrell, Philosopher, on Moral Clarity, 2004
Description:
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Burnham Terrell, Philosopher, on Moral Clarity, 2004
Leigh Fondakowski, Playwright, May 2014
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
Leigh Fondakowski, Playwright, May 2014
Burnham Terrell, Philosopher, on Moral Clarity, 2004
Description:
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Burnham Terrell, Philosopher, on Moral Clarity, 2004
Chris Citron, Exhibit Curator, on the Life of Minna Citron, Feb. 2014
Description:
Chris Citron talks to Peter Shea about The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus College, a retrospective exhibit of artwork by her grandmother, leading abstract expressionist Minna Citron. She talks about her involvement with Minna Citron's art, growing up in an artistic milieu and acting as he...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Citron, Chris
Created:
2014-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Chris Citron, Exhibit Curator, on the Life of Minna Citron, Feb. 2014
Mike Hazard, Poet and Filmmaker, on Responding to Evil, Apr. 2014
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Mike Hazard, Poet and Filmmaker, on Responding to Evil, Apr. 2014
Interview with Peter Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rachleff, Peter
Created:
2017-01-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Interview with Peter Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library.
Interview with Peter Rothstein, Theater Latte Da Cofounder.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rothstein, Peter
Created:
2016-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Interview with Peter Rothstein, Theater Latte Da Cofounder.
Norbert Art-Uro, Artist, Oct. 2014
Description:
Norbert Art-Uro is an artist living in Neuburg.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Art-Uro, Norbert
Created:
2014-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Norbert Art-Uro, Artist, Oct. 2014
Barbara Draper, Poet, Feb. 2016
Description:
Barbara Draper’s poems have been or are pending publication in The Talking Stick, The Aurorean, and Passagers where her poem received an honorable mention. She’s a long time Michigander, now living in Minneapolis. For fun she enjoys downhill skiing and playing with her granddaughters.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Draper, Barbara
Created:
2016-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Barbara Draper, Poet, Feb. 2016
Karin Velez, Historian, Mar. 2015
Description:
Karin Velez is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College, and a 2014-15 visiting fellow at the IAS. Vélez is especially interested in spiritual encounters, comparative empire, the spread of Catholic devotion, the experience of indigenous women on the American frontiers, and the communal formulation of myths.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Velez, Karin
Created:
2015-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Karin Velez, Historian, Mar. 2015