William Moseley talks to Peter Shea about food security issues in Africa, and some of the food policy issues facing African governments, in light of a recent trip to Botswana.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moseley, William
Created:
2012-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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.
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.
Joe Amato, author and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about how his interest in history and culture developed, his experiences in Europe and Canada, and his research on the decline of regions. He discusses how his family and his upbringing affected his career and life. He also reads from a poem titled "A Trip to a Detroit Cemetary." He also discuss...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Amato, Joe
Created:
2014-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
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.
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.
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.
Tim Hoogland, historian, talks to Peter Shea about his work as the coordinator of History Day. He discusses the challenges involved with students learning about history, lack of teacher resources, and the role of the Minnesota Historical Society in solving these conflicts. He talks about how History Day is used as a vechicle for underprivileged ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoogland, Tim
Created:
2014-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Johanna Kandl is an Austrian painter. Her work seeks to expose myths of religiosity, historical constructions, capitalism, to distort them to the point, as it is neatly put, that they become recognisable.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kandl, Johanna
Created:
2014-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Schmidinger, political scientist, social and cultural anthropologist, and scholar of the Middle East, talks to Peter Shea. He recalls his wealthy, conservative Catholic upbringing as it framed his early awareness of racial and social inequity and prompted his interest in the Middle East and the relationships between religion, state, and s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schmidinger, Thomas
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Patrick Hamilton, Director of Global Change Initiatives at the Science Museum of Minnesota, develops projects that explore the challenges and opportunities of humanity as the dominant agent of global change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hamilton, Pat
Created:
2015-06-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Walter Enloe talks to Peter Shea about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, and about his experience as an educator and peace activist in Hiroshima and the Twin Cities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Enloe, Walter
Created:
2011-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-06-26
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.
Jack Rose talks to Peter Shea about his career path, his interests in technological gadgetry, radio broadcasting, and acting in community troupes, and how he became involved with Kristin Anderson's 2013 Fringe production Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story. He talks about some of his tenets of acting and about his time living in Germany in the 1...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rose, Jack
Created:
2013-08-03
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.
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.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2015-08-10
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.
This oral history session with former Swede Hollow residents took place at Metropolitan State University on October 28, 1995, organized by the Friends of Swede Hollow.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sanchelli, Joseph; Sanchelli, Michael
Created:
1995-10-28
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.
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.
Jeremy Iggers, journalist and executive director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, talks to Peter Shea about his career in journalism, as well as his transition from the Star Tribune to the non-profit sector. He discusses the shortfalls of today's journalism, and the mission of the Twin Cities Daily Planet to bring light to underreported storie...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Iggers, Jeremy
Created:
2014-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
