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Description:: Erika Kate MacDonald, playwright and actor, talks to Peter Shea about the challenges she has faced acting in theater and writing one-woman shows, from Fluid, a "bisexual coming-of-age story", to Tap Me On The Shoulder, scheduled for five performances at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. They discuss different kinds of goals and mindsets that i...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: MacDonald, Erika Kate
Created:: 2013-07-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Erik Olin Wright talks to Peter Shea about American class structures and developing social and economic alternatives.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wright, Erik Olin
Created:: 2007-12-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Eugene McCarthy, retired US senator from Minnesota, now deceased, talks to Peter Shea on Good Friday. He compares the temptations of characters in the Good Friday story to those of American leaders during the Vietnam War: money, power, pride, belonging. He considers the dual nature of responsibility, the pressures that compel otherwise good peop...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: McCarthy, Eugene
Created:: 2003-06-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Eugene Quinn, radio producer, DJ, and writer, talks to Peter Shea. He describes his upbringing, his parents' appreciation of words, and his life in Austria as an expatriate from London. He discusses his work with cultural organization Space and Place on the Vienna Coffeehouse Conversations and describes some of Vienna's political, social, and et...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Quinn, Eugene
Created:: 2014-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Eva Hudecova is a Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, and a co-translator of Slovak author Michal Hvoreck√Ω‚Äôs novel "Danube in America". She also spoke about the collaborative translation project in a discussion in April 2015.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hudecova, Eva
Created:: 2015-05-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Evalyn Parry talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the Fringe Festival 2010, and her interest in theater and teaching.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Parry, Evalyn
Created:: 2010-08-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Evan Solot talks to Peter Shea about his projects, his compositional interests and sensibilities, and his work in and outside the commercial realm.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Solot, Evan
Created:: 2007-02-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Franz Leitner is a baker and restauranteur at Taverne zu Prandegg in Sch√∂nau.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Leitner, Franz
Created:: 2014-09-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Franz Wuketits is a philosopher of biology at the University of Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wuketits, Franz
Created:: 2014-09-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Frederic Neyrat talks to Peter Shea about his consideration of anti-humanist philosophy, in the context of global processes and environmental damage.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Neyrat, Frederic
Created:: 2011-03-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13