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Description:: Dylan Ward speaks about his production in the 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival, "An Autistic Life Through History".
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Ward, Dylan
Created:: 2015-07-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson talk to Peter Shea about their work teaching the Women's Art Institute, an intensive studio course, and their book project dealing with the experiences of the Institute's participants.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:: 2013-02-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Elke Piff raises herbs and makes quality herbal products in Obersch√ºtzen, Willersdorf.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Piff, Elke
Created:: 2014-10-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Ellen Kennedy talks about her involvement as interim director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and president of World Without Genocide, about war crimes prosecution, resolutions, sanctions, and measures to effect intervention in worldwide mass atrocities.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Kennedy, Ellen
Created:: 2009-10-30
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Emilie Buchwald talks to Peter Shea about how she became a children's writer: her early fascination with poetry, her college opportunities to study with John Cheever and George Plimpton, the completion of her English thesis at the University of Minnesota, her involvment at the Loft Literary Center, and her founding of Milkweed Chronicle with Ran...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Buchwald, Emilie
Created:: 2014-03-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Part 12/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Gilmer, Robert
Created:: 2010-11-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Eric Avila talks to Peter Shea about the place of the city in the American cultural imagination, its relationship to social identity, the early construction of highways, and the development of urban planning as a science.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Avila, Eric
Created:: 2009-04-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13