Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wessels, Cletus
Created:
2006-06-28
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Conevery Valencius is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she writes and teaches about U.S. environmental history, the history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. Her recent projects have focused on the history of earthquakes and seismology, the history of the environmental sciences, a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Valencius, Conevery
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hassel, Craig
Created:
2015-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pippa, Cristina
Created:
2016-04-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dakota Hosta, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist and her involement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She talks about some ideas from feminist art theory which inform her work, the future of her art practice, and she exhibits three pieces she produced at the I...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hosta, Dakota; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dana Whitco talks to Peter Shea about the work of the Center for Creative Research fostering collaboration between contemporary U. S. movement artists and investigators across the arts and sciences.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitco, Dana
Created:
2013-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dan Burk talks to Peter Shea about his work dealing with questions of fallibility raised by scientific and technological evidence in legal cases, such as DNA and fingerprinting.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Burk, Dan
Created:
2007-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-08-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark came north from rural Mississippi to Minneapolis at 19, went to work in the post office, and began to act. He got his big break at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and toured with that play and others for several years. Now taking only occasional work, he reflects with Peter Shea on how ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-07-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark talks to Peter Shea about his wife, Mattie. He recalls memories of her: their childhood experiences in Mississippi, her personality and determination, her family and upbringing, her love of reading, and her labor in cotton fields. He remembers her exposure to the "southern argot" and recalls her gifted storytelling, beginnin...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2014-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, continues, drawing connections between Shakespeare, Stanislavski, the Bible, and childhood experiences. He considers how these insights helped him to prepare as an actor and to teach a young girl to prepare. He talks about dynamics of race and casting, and his preparation for two challenging roles: the charac...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Daniel Trudeau is Assistant Professor of Geography at Macalester College. As an urban social geographer, Trudeau is particularly interested in ways that social, political, legal and economic processes influence city life and landscapes, as well as the ways that people and organizations create meaningful places and landscapes through participatio...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trudeau, Dan
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Darlene St. Clair is Director of the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University, which provides services and resources for students, faculty and community members to research, teach about, and broaden their knowledge of historically excluded racial and ethnic groups of color in the United States. She is also a visiting professor...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
St. Clair, Darlene
Created:
2015-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
David Chang talks to Peter Shea about modern American attitudes towards historical seizure of Native American lands, about the history of the official story, and the role of historical study in demonstrating the choices that went into events.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Chang, David
Created:
2008-05-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dean Abrahamson talks to Peter Shea about the ongoing problems at the Fukushima nuclear powerplant following the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Abrahamson; Dean
Created:
2011-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Deborah Jenson talks to Peter Shea about her research into French and KreyÔøΩl revolutionary-era texts by the African diaspora in colonial Haiti, and new developments in theories of imitation or representation in the field of neuroscience.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenson, Deborah
Created:
2010-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Deborah L. Swackhamer studies the processes affecting the behavior of, and exposures to, toxic chemicals in the environment and works on policies to address these potential risks. She is a Professor of Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and served as Co-director of the Water Resources C...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Swackhamer, Deborah
Created:
2015-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diana Eicher is MCAD’s Printshop and Paper Studio Coordinator and has taught at the University of Hawaii, the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Bloomington Art Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Textile Center of Minnesota. She was also a convener of the 2015-16 IAS Bee Arts Collaborative.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eicher, Diana
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diane Kastiaficas talks to Peter Shea about her memories of childhood which formed her as an artist. She talks about collectors and collections, showing a collection she made as a child, and about her work as a teacher.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Katsiaficas, Diane
Created:
2013-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dominique Tobbell is a historian of health care, business, and politics in the 20th century United States with a particular interest in the history of pharmaceuticals, health policy, and nursing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Don Kemp worked as a math teacher at North High School, Minneapolis, and as a minister. In this interview, he talks about his experiences growing up on the farm and in the church, his work in engineering and ministry, and the challenges of teaching math within and "around the edges" of the public education system.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kemp, Donald
Created:
2007-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Ewart talks to Peter Shea about some motivations behind his Spark Festival project, such as the importance of active play for young people, and the environmental damage of contemporary society.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ewart, Douglas
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Huff is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, and a professionally produced playwright. His philosophical interests have focused on a variety of problems in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, and issues raised by Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Huff, Douglas
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’s 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.
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.
Eric Black talks to Peter Shea about journalistic conventions, norms, and decision processes, and his attempts to convey more honest reporting as an online journalist.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Black, Eric
Created:
2008-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Dursteler talks to Peter Shea about formation of national and individual identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean, elaborating his research on the city of Venice and his book, "Renegade Women".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Dursteler, Eric
Created:
2011-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eric Van Duzer talks to Peter Shea about his collaborative research with his sister, Leslie Van Duzer, into the similarities of magic trick and architectural design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Van Duzer, Eric
Created:
2008-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Donald and Xenia Pestova talk to Peter Shea about their involvement in the Spark 2009 Festival, as part of their Digital Orchestra Project, utilizing digital musical instruments.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Donald, Erika| Pestova, Xenia
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Holmquist-Wall and Donald Myers give Peter Shea a tour of the installation "150 Years of Swedish Art" in the Hillstrom Museum at Gustavus Adolphus.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holmquist-Wall, Erika; Myers, Donald
Created:
2012-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hvorecký’s 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.
Freya Manfred, poet, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her childhood embedded in nature on her writing. She discusses the different poets and writers who have impacted her work and guided her as a person and poet. Growing up, Manfred had a rather solidary childhood. This is manifested in much of her work, which focuses on the human rela...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Manfred, Freya
Created:
2014-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Garrick Comeaux talks to Peter Shea about his pursuit of early music and singing, his travel through Italy and Germany, and his doctorate in sacramental theology.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Comeaux, Garrick
Created:
2009-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gary Kroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Plattsburgh State University. Trained in environmental history and the history of science, Professor Kroll is interested in the literal intersection of culture and nature. His project Roadkill Nation examines how Americans have thought about and dealt with the problem of animal...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kroll, Gary
Created:
2013-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Geoffrey Sirc talks to Peter Shea about his approach towards teaching writing composition, using unorthodox writing assignments to give students a position of personal authority.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sirc, Geoffrey
Created:
2010-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Italo-Canadian dancer and choreographer Gioconda Barbuto is the 2015 McKnight International Artist. A dancer of explosive wit, subtle intelligence, and a fine sense of theatricality, Gioconda has distinguished herself throughout her career in an impressive number of works. She danced with the Minnesota Dance Theatre before becoming a soloist wit...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barbuto, Gioconda
Created:
2015-11-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gregory Taylor talks to Peter Shea about his weekly radio show, his fondness for the Spark Festival, a modern objectivization of music, and his formative musical experiences, in particular, learning about Javanese gamelan.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Taylor, Gregory
Created:
2007-02-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Guerino Mazzola talks to Peter Shea about his appreciation of time and gesture in music, his views on music education, and the meaning of collaboration.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Mazzola, Guerino
Created:
2007-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Guillaume Boccara talks to Peter Shea about his experience living and researching in France and Chile, and the struggle for recognition and rights of indigenous and marginalized people in each place.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hanna Kite talks to Peter Shea about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011 and how subsequent media coverage has "flattened" the stories about how the disaster has effected people’s lives.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kite, Hanna
Created:
2011-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Hans Bertram (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns "Work-Life Balance. Comparing Japan and Germany".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bertram, Hans
Created:
2014-11-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hans Tammen talks to Peter Shea about the experiences which went into developing his musicianship, from playing classic jazz to experimental electric guitar.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tammen, Hans
Created:
2013-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker talk to Peter Shea about the processes they use in their collaboration, centering upon both human and nonhuman imprints on the Australian landscape, such as walking through the landscape. They comment on the ways in which their landscape work looks rather exotic to them in the very different context of Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tarlo, Harriet; Tucker, Judith
Created:
2012-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena
Created:
2013-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Henry Buchwald is Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. During his more than 50 years at the University of Minnesota, Buchwald has been a surgeon, teacher, mentor, researcher, and inventor. His long-term research interests include cholesterol and atherosclerosis, obesity surgery, implantable devices, hyp...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Buchwald, Henry
Created:
2015-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Holly Day‘s writing has appeared in over 3,500 publications internationally, including Computer Music Journal, ROCKRGRL, Music Alive!, Guitar One, Brutarian Magazine, Interface Technology, and Mixdown Magazine. Sherman Wick has worked as a freelance writer and photographer, focusing on music, film, and Minnesota’s rich cultural and historica...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Holly; Wick, Sherman
Created:
2015-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hong-Ming Liang, Ph.D., is Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth. He teaches and studies world history, Asian history, Taiwanese history and politics, human rights, global history and politics, nationalism and nation...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Liang, Hong-Ming
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Interns at The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies, supervised by Hong-Ming Liang, Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hyang Eun Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Welfare at Kosin University in Busan, South Korea. Long known for her work on international adoption, her current research focus is on North Korean refugees in South Korea. Alex Lubet, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of American Studies,...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kim, Hyang Eun; Lubet, Alex
Created:
2015-05-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
