Ryan Hill and Heather Stone talk about their involvement with Sandbox Theatre, and its production process, starting without a script and developing the play by communal inquiry and creative experimentation. They also describe their production for the 2009 Fringe Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hill, Ryan| Stone, Heather
Created:
2009-07-30
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.
Ryland Angel describes the beginnings of creating The Call, which began in the 2015 Spring semester at the Institute for Advanced Study. The project is headed up by Ryland Angel, Ann Waltner, and Nels Cline.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Angel, Ryland; Waltner, An
Created:
2015-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Salah Ammo, Kurdish musician, talks about his path to musicianship, his childhood experiences of nature, and his family. He talks about Syria's many layers of cultural history, his Kurdish background, and his life and music in Damascus and Vienna. He mentions his son's experience of moving from Syria to Vienna.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ammo, Salah
Created:
2014-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Samantha Bohrman is a writer based in Northeast Minneapolis: "Shortly after graduating from law school, I had three children and began writing novels. I have never looked back, though I suspect my husband has. When I’m not writing you can probably find me at Target forgetting to buy broccoli and shopping for scarves I don’t need. If it’s a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohrman, Samantha
Created:
2016-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sara Evans talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the civil rights and women's movements, and the relevance of those past movements to present-day activism.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Evans, Sara
Created:
2007-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sarah Stonich, best-selling author, talks to Peter Shea about her writing process. She discusses the influence of Minnesota in her novels. Stonich recounts the story of her building a cabin in northeastern Minnesota with her young son following her divorce. This process motivated her to write a memoir on the events. She discusses how this connec...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stonich, Sarah
Created:
2014-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sarah Tracy talks to Peter Shea about taking a humanities approach to address questions in current medical practice, from sports injuries to ADHD treatment, and about the medicalization of social phenomena.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tracy, Sarah
Created:
2008-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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.
Shawny Anderson is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of California. Since January 2002 (with a few breaks in between) Shawny has taken Jan Term trips that are now loosely connected under the title "DIRT." DIRT stands for Dismantle, Immerse, Reflect, Transform. The DIRT trips have sent students into situations of extreme pove...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Shawny
Created:
2015-07-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.