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.
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.
Stacy Alaimo talks about transcorporeality, an awareness of the body in material reality, as it relates to environmental health, monster movies, and human interactions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Alaimo, Stacy
Created:
2009-11-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Stan & Gladys Friesen have been farming near Mountain Lake, MN for over 30 years, growing corn and soybeans. Stan’s interest in alternative energy and ethanol led him to the experiment that became Gladcorn, a crunchy corn snack that crosses corn nuts and popcorn.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Friesen, Gladys; Friesen, Stan
Created:
2010-07-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Stefan Heid was trained as an ethnologist, works in the family used car business near Edlitz, and writes about Burgenland. In this interview, he talks about returning home after much travel abroad.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Heid, Stefan
Created:
2014-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Steve LeBeau is Editor in Chief of Minnesota Business Magazine. He has more than 30 years of experience as a producer, writer and editor in radio, television, print and Internet, spanning the fields of journalism, public relations and entertainment. He served in the Communications Office of Governor Jesse Ventura for four years as a speechwriter...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LeBeau, Steve
Created:
2015-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 6/16 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:
2010-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thia Cooper is Associate Professor in Religion, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her teaching and research interests include theology and liberation, theology and development, faith and practice in faith-based aid agencies, non-western Christianities, and religion in Lat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cooper, Thia
Created:
2014-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
