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Description:: Karl Rogers talks to Peter Shea about the meaning of democracy, its necessity for the survival of humanity, and his involvement with the John Dewey Center for the Study of Democracy in Education.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Rogers, Karl
Created:: 2011-11-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Karl Pfeifer is Director of Vienna‚Äôs Center for the Documentation of the Austrian Resistance.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Pfeifer, Karl
Created:: 2014-09-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Karin Velez is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College, and a 2014-15 visiting fellow at the IAS. V√©lez 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

Description:: Karen Coelho talks to Peter Shea about urban and city planning in India.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Coelho, Karen
Created:: 2011-10-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Karen Campbell talks to Peter Shea about dams, levies, earthquakes, natural disasters, and the uncertainty of human impact upon the earth and environment.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Campbell, Karen
Created:: 2011-04-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Kairn Klieman talks to Peter Shea about her use of comparative linguistic research to reconstruct the history of pre-colonial African peoples and ongoing anthropological racism towards indigenous Africans.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Klieman, Kairn
Created:: 2007-11-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Justine DiFiore, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist. She exhibits a portrait of photographer Wing Young Huie she produced at the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She discusses her affinity for portraiture and what she considers valuable and authentic in her work. Sh...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: DiFiore, Justine; Olson, Patricia
Created:: 2013-07-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13