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Interview with Bruce Cottington, World War II Veteran.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cottington, Bruce
Created:
2016-08-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Interview with Bruce Cottington, World War II Veteran.
Chris Kosowski, Gardener, July 2014
Description:
Chris Kosowski is a founder of the North End Community Garden. In this interview, she talks about how and why the garden was established, its constituency, and how the land is managed.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kosowski, Chris
Created:
2014-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Chris Kosowski, Gardener, July 2014
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on Preparation, Sep. 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Danny Robinson Clark, Actor, on Preparation, Sep. 2013
Kate Brauman, Water Scientist, July 2015
Description:
Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, where she studies the coupled interaction of land-use change and water resources. Kate brings together the study of hydrology and plant-water relations with economics and policy to explore the effects of land cover ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brauman, Kate
Created:
2015-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Kate Brauman, Water Scientist, July 2015
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Description:
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Mary Vaughan, Retired Teacher, on Prison, 2004
Larry Johnson, Storyteller and Educator, Sep. 2015
Description:
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Larry Johnson, Storyteller and Educator, Sep. 2015
Patrick Raines, Scientist, Apr. 2015
Description:
After graduating from Earlham College, Patrick Raines worked at the University of Minnesota as a research technician in the Fly Cognition Lab. He received a Masters of Science degree from the University of Missouri St. Louis with Prof. Aimee Dunlap. He has explored careers in substitute teaching, mosquito control and pacemaker manufacturing. In ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Raines, Patrick
Created:
2015-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Patrick Raines, Scientist, Apr. 2015
Peter Redfield, Anthropologist, July 2014
Description:
Peter Redfield is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. His areas of expertise include Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine;Humanitarianism and Human Rights;Colonial History;Ethics, Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Experts;Europe;French Guiana;Uganda;South Africa.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Redfield, Peter
Created:
2014-07-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Peter Redfield, Anthropologist, July 2014
Jigna Desai, Prof. of Gender, Women, & Sexuality, Aug. 2015
Description:
Jigna Desai is Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies, with departmental affiliations in American Studies and Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South A...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Desai, Jigna
Created:
2015-08-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Jigna Desai, Prof. of Gender, Women, & Sexuality, Aug. 2015
Adam Muller, Scholar of Mass Violence, Nov. 2015
Description:
Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He specializes in the representations of war, genocide and mass violence, human rights, memory studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and analytic philosophy. At the IAS, Muller spoke on Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Adam Muller, Scholar of Mass Violence, Nov. 2015
Sharon Day, Director, Indigenous People's Task Force, July 2015
Description:
Sharon Day, Ojibwe, is executive director of the Indigenous People’s Task Force. Sharon is 2nd degree Midewin and follows the spiritual path of the Anishinaabe people;part of her spiritual practice is to care for water. In 2003 Sharon Day, Josephine Madamin and other Anishinaabe women began Mother Earth Water Walks to bring awareness about wat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Sharon
Created:
2015-07-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Sharon Day, Director, Indigenous People's Task Force, July 2015
Diane Katsiaficas, Professor of Art, on her Inspiration, January 2013
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Diane Katsiaficas, Professor of Art, on her Inspiration, January 2013
Jonathon Wells, Artist and Geologist, June 2015
Description:
Trained as both a fine art photographer and as a geologist, Jonathon Wells describes his work as an embodiment of his commitment to "fostering dialog about human interaction with the earth through surface/subsurface photo-geologic composites." His process of creating these photo-geologic composites is both an artistic and investigatory process.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wells, Jonathon
Created:
2015-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Jonathon Wells, Artist and Geologist, June 2015
Darlene St. Clair, Multicultural Resource Center Director, May 2015
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Darlene St. Clair, Multicultural Resource Center Director, May 2015
Cristina Pippa, Playwright and Screenwriter, Apr. 2016
Description:
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.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Cristina Pippa, Playwright and Screenwriter, Apr. 2016
Simon Gikandi, Professor of English, on Literary History, October 2009
Description:
Simon Gikandi talks to Peter Shea about his interdisciplinary work connecting literary theory and literary history, his book connecting slavery and culture of taste, British colonialism, and modern identity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Simon Gikandi, Professor of English, on Literary History, October 2009
Michal Hvorecký, Author, Apr. 2015
Description:
Michal Hvorecký, born in 1976, is a writer, translator and director of the library at the Goethe Institute in Bratislava. He has published several books, including Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America) in 2010, which has been translated to English in collaboration with Profs. Eva Hudecová (U Minnesota – Twin Cities) and Mark Lencho (U Wisconsin – ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hvorecký, Michal
Created:
2015-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Michal Hvorecký, Author, Apr. 2015
Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Historian of Race.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
Created:
2016-09-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Historian of Race.
Michael Hartl, Gardener and Programmer, Oct. 2014
Description:
Michael Hartl does gardening aiming at partial self-sufficiency, as well as programming and blogging, near Heiligenbrunn.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hartl, Michael
Created:
2014-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Michael Hartl, Gardener and Programmer, Oct. 2014
Ot√°vio Bueno, Philosopher of Science, Feb. 2016
Description:
Ot√°vio Bueno is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. "Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathemati...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bueno, Ot√°vio
Created:
2016-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:
2018-02-13
Ot√°vio Bueno, Philosopher of Science, Feb. 2016