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Description:: Hong-Ming Liang, Ph.D., is Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth. He teaches and studies world history, Asian history, Taiwanese history and politics, human rights, global history and politics, nationalism and nation...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Liang, Hong-Ming
Created:: 2014-04-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Tom Conley talks to Peter Shea about his interest in American cinema which began at an early age.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Conley, Tom
Created:: 2010-04-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Gender Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, and a guest researcher at the Ume√• Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden. She received her BA from Barnard College and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests include politics of epistemology, feminist theory, and trustw...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Scheman, Naomi
Created:: 2016-04-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Susan Buck-Morss talks to Peter Shea about her early adoption of Marxist ideals and communal living, her love of libraries and archives, and the power of visual imagery.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Buck-Morss, Susan
Created:: 2009-02-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Shane D. Courtland is the managing director of the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University. His main research interests lie in three different areas: political philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics. With Gerald Gaus, he is the author of the entry on Liberalism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His reviews have ap...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Courtland, Shane
Created:: 2014-04-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: obert Wallace is an evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer. His blog, Farming Pathogens, follows agriculture, infections, evolution, ecological resilience, dialectical biology, and the practice of science. His current work explores the evolution and economics of avian influenza;this interview was filmed at the St. Paul State Fa...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wallace, Robert
Created:: 2015-07-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Susan McIntosh talks to Peter Shea about her archaeological and oral history research into the development of complex societies in Africa's past.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: McIntosh, Susan
Created:: 2007-11-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) since 2002. Writing about his work in Austria, Balluch says activism has given Austria animal protect...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Balluch, Martin
Created:: 2014-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Lise Lunge-Larsen is a well-known storyteller and award-winning author, known as "The Troll Lady."
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Larsen, Lise Lunge
Created:: 2014-04-02
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13