Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark — an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Simon Gikandi talks to Peter Shea about his interdisciplinary work connecting literary theory and literary history, his book connecting slavery and culture of taste, British colonialism, and modern identity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shohini Ghosh talks to Peter Shea about her films, the condition of women in India, and her aspirations and challenges as an activist and documentary filmmaker.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ghosh, Shohini
Created:
2006-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shirley Nelson Garner talks to Peter Shea about aspects of Shakespeare, including the treatment of female characters and the difficulty of attaining self-understanding.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garner, Shirley Nelson
Created:
2010-03-08
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.
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.
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.
Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Memorabilia serves as an important source for studying the early history and programs of the Minneapolis YWCA. The scrapbooks are extensive compilations of items documenting YWCA activities. Typically, the scrapbooks contain announcements, tickets, printed programs, and extensive newspaper clippings that report on ac...
Creator:
Minneapolis YWCA
Created:
1898-10 - 1903-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The Music School of Henry Street Settlement was formed in 1927, although the Settlement had offered musical activities for residents of New York City's Lower East Side for many years. The new school, which opened to students in the fall of 1928, offered classes in instrumental and vocal music, dancing, and instrument construction and repair.
Creator:
Henry Street Music School
Created:
1940 - 1959
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Scrapbook kept by Florence Page Jaques containing newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, and other press releases. Materials cover both Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques. The earliest dated contents are from 1920, and the latest from 1949. Bulk of materials date to 1938-1945. This scrapbook consists of 47 sheets and several loose n...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ruth Mazo Karras talks to Peter Shea about her early interest in fantasy literature, her work reviving archived manuscripts, and love, sex, and marriage in Medieval times.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosalie Wahl, the first woman elected to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, talks to Peter Shea about the invasion of Iraq, the limits of executive power, international law, civil liberties, the judicial system, and the threats posed to American democracy. Peter Shea says: "My old friend Rosalie Wahl, who died recently, had to keep lots of her o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wahl, Rosalie
Created:
2003-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ron Reed, now deceased, was a Professor of Philosophy and Education and Director of the Analytic Thinking for Children program at Texas Wesleyan University. Probably his best known book is Rebecca, a text named after his daughter and used around the world to stimulate philosophizing by children.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reed, Ron
Created:
2005-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ronald Krebs, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, conducts research at the juncture of international relations and comparative politics, with particular interests in the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service and in language and politics.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Krebs, Ronald
Created:
2015-08-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1999
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
Robin Gillette, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival since 2006, speaks retrospectively to Peter Shea about the success of the 2013 Fringe, the logistics of the festival, a participant's process of creating a Fringe production, and her decision to end her tenure as Executive Director.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gillette, Robin
Created:
2013-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Robert Gilmer talks to Peter Shea about his class, "Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010", and environmental and political questions surrounding the disaster.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Robert Gilmer talks to Peter Shea about the flooding of the Mississippi River in April and May of 2011, giving a historical perpective on flood preparedness.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2011-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rick Duque talks to Peter Shea about how well the culture and practice of science can travel to countries without their own longstanding scientific tradition.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Duque, Rick
Created:
2011-04-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rich Horton is Facilitator, Writer, and Editor of Rift Magazine, an online and sometimes print magazine featuring local music and art from Minneapolis.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Horton, Rich
Created:
2016-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Richard Mizelle is Professor of History at the University of Houston. His research explores the historical borders and overlap between questions of race, environment, technology, and health in modern America. His book Backwater Blues: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood and the African American Imagination, offers a critique of long-standing ideas ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Mizelle, Richard
Created:
2015-04-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rhoda Gilman, retired historian, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her parents on her personal convictions, her work in social justice and human rights, and role as an activist for women historians. She also discuesses the surprises she's come across throughout her career, most of which stem from her research of Buddhism. She talks abou...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilman, Rhoda
Created:
2014-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Renata Holod is College of Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities at the History of Art Department, and Curator, Near East Section, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has carried out archeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, Central Asia, Tunisia, an...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holod, Renata
Created:
2013-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 11/16 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:
2010-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 14/16 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:
2010-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebecca Scott talks to Peter Shea about the sociological factors which enable destructive environmental practices such as mountaintop removal coal mining.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Scott, Rebecca
Created:
2010-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebecca Louise Paxton is a graduate student working in the Institute for Organic Agriculture, a part of the University of Natural of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Her thesis work explores the meaning of one of the ethical principles that guide the organic agriculture movement in Europe: "Organic Agriculture should sustain and en...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paxton, Rebecca Louise
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ravi Malhotra talks to Peter Shea about his two book projects: "E.T. Kingsley and the Legal Politics of Disablement," examining the connections between workplace injury, disability law and labour history (with Benjamin Isitt) and "Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights Through Narratives," which examines systemic discrimination and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Malhotra, Ravi
Created:
2013-03-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Randel Hanson talks to Peter Shea about his role in Duluth’s sense of identity, struggles, aspirations, and challenges with respect to the robust food movement.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hanson, Randel
Created:
2012-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski talks to Peter Shea about a play she helped stage on the fifth anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, "What a Stranger May Know".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2012-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski talks to Peter Shea about her recent series of theater events in local restaurants, and the role of a theater artist in a local community.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2013-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She has written, performed, and otherwise collaborated on performance, film, music, and public art works throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2015-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She has written, performed, and otherwise collaborated on performance, film, music, and public art works throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2014-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 10/16 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:
2010-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains correspondence with booking agents, organizational records, photographs, and publicity material regarding artists, engaged by Verna Gold Scott to perform at the University of Minnesota and other venues. Verna Golden was born in River Falls, WI. She met her husband, Carlyle Scott, while studying music in Leipzig, Germany. Car...
Creator:
Scott, Verna Golden, 1876-1964
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Part 16/16 of Oil and Water. Barry Lehrman is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 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...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lehrman, Barry
Created:
2010-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Peter Weisensel, Professor of History at Macalester College, is a specialist in modern Russian history. In this March 2014 interview, he talks to Peter Shea about current events in Ukraine.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weisensel, Peter
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peter Redfield is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. His areas of expertise include Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine;Humanitarianism and Human Rights;Colonial History;Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts;Europe;French Guiana;Uganda;South Africa.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Redfield, Peter
Created:
2014-07-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peter Kampits, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences and travels as a student and professor of philosophy, and his progression of interests from existentialism (Sartre & Camus) to analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein) to the practical discipline of biomedical ethics. He complains tha...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kampits, Peter
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 2/16 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:
2010-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peg Meier has written seven books about Minnesotans, past and present. She was an award-winning reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 35 years before happily retiring in 2006. At the newspaper, she wrote mostly about ordinary Minnesotans who told her their extraordinary stories. Meier also found stories about Minnesota history, presented...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Peg
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Paul Hillmer is director of the Hmong Oral History Project and Professor of History at Concordia University. He is author of A People’s History of the Hmong (2009), based on over 200 oral history interviews. His six-part History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, examines Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
![Rollin' on the T.O.B.A. [production records] (Box 6, Folder 6)](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/9d2d2df0c70d429ca241c48032a92eccf7ee4d42.png "Rollin' on the T.O.B.A. [production records] (Box 6, Folder 6)")
