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Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Elke Piff raises herbs and makes quality herbal products in Obersch√ºtzen, Willersdorf.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Piff, Elke
Created:: 2014-10-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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‚Äôs 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dylan Ward speaks about his production in the 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival, "An Autistic Life Through History".
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Ward, Dylan
Created:: 2015-07-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Douglas Geers talks to Peter Shea about the 2007 Spark Festival and the meaning of gesture in music.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Geers, Douglas
Created:: 2007-02-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13