Bruce Cutler was an American poet who wrote narrative long poems on subjects ranging from the settling of the American frontier to gangs in Chicago. His first book, The Year of the Green Wave, was published in 1960 and was followed over the next 40 years by a dozen more. The Massacre at Sand Creek told the story of the massacre of hundreds of Ch...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cutler, Bruce
Created:
1996-06-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Over the next several years, Elaine’s research will explore how scientists in several national and r...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ecklund, Elaine
Created:
2016-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Emma is a writer based in Klamath Falls, Oregon whose work focuses on complex intersections between conservation, ecology, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her stories help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet’s species, and how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marris, Emma
Created:
2015-04-17
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.
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.
Janaya Martin has been published in Oddball Magazine and The Grief Diaries and blogs at janayamartin.wordpress.com. She also hosts a monthly reading series at The Coffee Shop Northeast in NE Minneapolis. Her debut book is Tiptoe and Whisper.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Martin, Janaya
Created:
2016-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson, directors of the Women's Art Institute, discuss their reasons for founding the Insitute in 1999 at MCAD, recalling an atmosphere increasingly hostile towards women students after the women's movements of the 60s-70s and their belief in the same-sex classroom as an environment where women students' "perceptu...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2014-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Natalie Rae Wass, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Fashion Risk, or the Accidental Nudist, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about growing up in England, the place of nude vacations in her family’s life, and her attitudes toward cultural proscriptions around clothing and nudity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wass, Natalie Rae
Created:
2013-08-01
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tressa Sularz is a fiber artist living and working in her home studio in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work reflects movement and transitions -- from curving forms suggesting movement, embellished with earthly stones suggesting timelessness to cocoons reflecting on a time of stillness and inwardness with eventual rejuvenation. This curre...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sularz, Tressa
Created:
2016-03-04
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.
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.
Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, where she studies the coupled interaction of land-use change and water resources. Kate brings together the study of hydrology and plant-water relations with economics and policy to explore the effects of land cover ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brauman, Kate
Created:
2015-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
After graduating from Earlham College, Patrick Raines worked at the University of Minnesota as a research technician in the Fly Cognition Lab. He received a Masters of Science degree from the University of Missouri St. Louis with Prof. Aimee Dunlap. He has explored careers in substitute teaching, mosquito control and pacemaker manufacturing. In ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Raines, Patrick
Created:
2015-04-14
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.
Jigna Desai is Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies, with departmental affiliations in American Studies and Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South A...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Desai, Jigna
Created:
2015-08-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He specializes in the representations of war, genocide and mass violence, human rights, memory studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and analytic philosophy. At the IAS, Muller spoke on Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sharon Day, Ojibwe, is executive director of the Indigenous People’s Task Force. Sharon is 2nd degree Midewin and follows the spiritual path of the Anishinaabe people;part of her spiritual practice is to care for water. In 2003 Sharon Day, Josephine Madamin and other Anishinaabe women began Mother Earth Water Walks to bring awareness about wat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Sharon
Created:
2015-07-08
Contributed By:
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.
Trained as both a fine art photographer and as a geologist, Jonathon Wells describes his work as an embodiment of his commitment to "fostering dialog about human interaction with the earth through surface/subsurface photo-geologic composites." His process of creating these photo-geologic composites is both an artistic and investigatory process.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wells, Jonathon
Created:
2015-06-24
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.
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.
Simon Gikandi talks to Peter Shea about his interdisciplinary work connecting literary theory and literary history, his book connecting slavery and culture of taste, British colonialism, and modern identity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michal Hvorecký, born in 1976, is a writer, translator and director of the library at the Goethe Institute in Bratislava. He has published several books, including Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America) in 2010, which has been translated to English in collaboration with Profs. Eva Hudecová (U Minnesota – Twin Cities) and Mark Lencho (U Wisconsin – ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hvorecký, Michal
Created:
2015-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ot√°vio Bueno is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. "Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathemati...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bueno, Ot√°vio
Created:
2016-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.