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Leonard Marcus, Author, on his Recent Work, February 2012
Description:
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Leonard Marcus, Author, on his Recent Work, February 2012
Iain Biggs, Professor of Art, on his Work, October 2012
Description:
Iain Biggs talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which his personal life has had an impact on his artistic work, and reflects on what he has learned from conversations while in Minnesota, in particular conversations with Dakota peoples.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Biggs, Iain
Created:
2012-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Iain Biggs, Professor of Art, on his Work, October 2012
Robin Gillette, Director of the MN Fringe, on Her Tenure, Aug. 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Robin Gillette, Director of the MN Fringe, on Her Tenure, Aug. 2013
Juliette Cherbuliez, Professor of French, on the Medea Myth, March 2009
Description:
Juliette Cherbuliez talks to Peter Shea about her interests in French Early Modern literature, the Medea myth, and stories of murder carried out by women, and how they frame our evaluations of violence. She also speaks about her educational ideals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cherbuliez, Juliette
Created:
2009-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Juliette Cherbuliez, Professor of French, on the Medea Myth, March 2009
Mary Modeen, Artist, on Place and Belonging, October 2012
Description:
Mary Modeen talks to Peter Shea about landscapes, teaching, art-making, and place, exploring notions of the unseen and emptiness. She also talks about finding a home as an American who teaches in Scotland and in feeling more at home in herself as she ages.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Modeen, Mary
Created:
2012-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Mary Modeen, Artist, on Place and Belonging, October 2012
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, on Conventional Economics, October 2010
Description:
Juliet Schor talks to Peter Shea about her early intellectual formation, her growing dissatisfaction with conventional economics, and her decision to write for a general audience (as well as an academic audience).ÔøΩ She also talks about connections between activism and the academy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, on Conventional Economics, October 2010
Ryan Skinner, Ethnomusicologist, on Mali, October 2012
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Ryan Skinner, Ethnomusicologist, on Mali, October 2012
Susan Whitfield, Historian and Librarian, on Historiography, January 2013
Description:
Susan Whitfield talks to Peter Shea about her intellectual expansion from particular historical topics to a broad concern with trade and cultural exchange over hundreds of years, including the Silk Road between Europe and China, and about the ways in which history is recorded and utilized.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitfield, Susan
Created:
2013-01-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Susan Whitfield, Historian and Librarian, on Historiography, January 2013
Christopher Fischbach, Publisher, on His Work, Aug. 2014
Description:
Christopher Fischbach is Publisher at Coffee House Press. In this interview, he talks to Peter Shea about how he became involved with Coffee House, the publication decisions he makes, his relationship to the authors of published works, and the Press's commitment to experimental writing and diverse writers.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fischbach, Christopher
Created:
2014-08-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Christopher Fischbach, Publisher, on His Work, Aug. 2014
Gerry Kearns, Professor of Human Geography, on Public Geographies, October 2012
Description:
Gerry Kearns talks to Peter Shea about "public geographies", geographical ideas which organise much about the way we apprehend the world yet rest upon often-unexamined claims about space, place, and environment, the fundamental geographical dimensions of our world.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kearns, Gerry
Created:
2012-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Gerry Kearns, Professor of Human Geography, on Public Geographies, October 2012