Manuel Esnoz is an Argentine visual artist and painter. He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York..
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Esnoz, Manuel
Created:
2014-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marcus Nornes talks to Peter Shea about his interest in Japanese documentary cinema, including propaganda films of World War Two, and about the ways in which films present moral choices to their audience.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nornes, Marcus
Created:
2007-11-09
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Margot Fortunato Galt grew up a Yankee in South Carolina during the 1950s. Her memoir, poetry, and prose often return to this period, or to her Italian/American background. She has published seven books, two of which were nominated for Minnesota Book Awards. Her poetry and creative prose appear in five anthologies and many small-press journals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Galt, Margot
Created:
2014-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mark L. Winston is recognized as one of the world’s leading expert on bees and pollination, having had an illustrious career researching, teaching, writing and commenting on bees and agriculture, environmental issues and science policy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Winson, Mark
Created:
2015-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) since 2002. Writing about his work in Austria, Balluch says activism has given Austria animal protect...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Balluch, Martin
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Beth Stein is a former adjunct theology teacher at St. Catherine’s University, and an activist involved with the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about experiences in her life which motivate her to work for social justice, inclusion, and gender equity in the catholic church. She talks about ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stein, Mary Beth
Created:
2013-08-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Modeen talks to Peter Shea about landscapes, teaching, art-making, and place, exploring notions of the unseen and emptiness. She also talks about finding a home as an American who teaches in Scotland and in feeling more at home in herself as she ages.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Modeen, Mary
Created:
2012-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Now chaplain at Minnetonka Shores Presbyterian Home in Minnetonka, Mary Pauluk was for a long time chaplain at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield, Minnesota. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to move back to small-town Minnesota after living in the big city.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pauluk, Mary
Created:
2002-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Treacy, librarian and activist, talks to Peter Shea about her passion for information accessibility. She describes the conception of The Minnesota Center for the Book and how the center filled an important void in the world of libraries and information ciruculation. The Minnesota Center for the Book's first major project involved the preser...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Mary
Created:
2014-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matteo Convertino is Assistant Professor in the UMN School of Public Health’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and Principal Investigator of the HumNat Lab for Analysis, Modeling and Management of Complex Biological and Socio-technical Systems.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Convertino, Matteo
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matthew Trumbull, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children, a one-man show about his father, which he performed at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. He talks about his development as an actor and the circumstances which gradually convinced him to undertake a one-man show: notably, his father's death and do...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trumbull, Matthew
Created:
2013-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Megan England talks to Peter Shea about her compositional processes, her current mobile guerilla project, and the character of cities and acoustic environments.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
England, Megan
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Melissa Rolnick talks to Peter Shea about the development of her interest in dance, the dynamics between teacher, dancer, and choreographer, and the physical consequences of being a dancer.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rolnick, Melissa
Created:
2012-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michael Fortun talks to Peter Shea about his work doing oral history/anthropology of ongoing scientific enterprises. Fortun is concerned to convey the messiness and í±humanityí¬ of science, in a public climate in which scientific inquiry is often held up as a model of fairly simple, clear rational procedure. Fortun gives an account of his in...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fortun, Michael
Created:
2009-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michael Linick is a retired Army Colonel with extensive experience in the areas of understanding and managing change in force structure, in force development and equipping processes, in understanding the Army as an institution, and in linking strategy to force requirements and capabilities. Key positions included managing the Army’s Total Army...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Linick, Michael
Created:
2015-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Michelle Filkins, professor and librarian, talks to Peter Shea about the conception of Spout Press. As a founder and editor, Filkins discusses the evolution of the publishing business, as well as how Spout Press has adapted and changed since 1989. Filkins also talks about her involvement with the writing scene and community of Minneapolis. She i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Filkins, Michelle
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mike Hazard, poet and filmmaker, talks to Peter Shea and reads poems illustrating his remarks from his book, This World is Not Altogether Bad. He establishes the influence of his parents--his mother, a Renaissance scholar, and his father, an English professor--on his life and work. He reflects on America's "conflict between the two Walts" (Disne...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hazard, Mike
Created:
2014-04-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Milena Klimek is a Masters student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. Her research title is "Farmer and Consumer Practices;A Social Theory Perspective of Organic Partnerships in Austria and Minnesota".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klimek, Milena
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Moishe Postone talks to Peter Shea about his interest in understanding the mass movements he was experiencing the 1960s and 1970s. He also discusses his purposes in teaching and the place of a critical emphasis in graduate education.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Postone, Moishe
Created:
2008-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Molly Zahn talks to Peter Shea about early attitudes towards Judeo-Christian scriptural text, and the practice of revising scriptures as a matter of copying and interpretation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Zahn, Molly
Created:
2011-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Morgan Grayce Willow holds an M.A. in creative writing from Colorado State University. Her awards include: a SASE/Jerome Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships in both poetry and prose, and a Loft-McKnight in poetry. Morgan’s chapbook Arpeggio of Appetite was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have also appeared i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Willow, Morgan Grayce
Created:
2016-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 7/16 of Oil and Water. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 7/16 of Oil and Water. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Nabil Matar talks to Peter Shea about his interest in the connections of literature, theology, and history, and accounts dealing with stories of captivity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Matar, Nabil
Created:
2009-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Gender Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, and a guest researcher at the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden. She received her BA from Barnard College and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests include politics of epistemology, feminist theory, and trustw...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Natalie Rae Wass, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Fashion Risk, or the Accidental Nudist, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about growing up in England, the place of nude vacations in her family’s life, and her attitudes toward cultural proscriptions around clothing and nudity.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wass, Natalie Rae
Created:
2013-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Nitin Varma (Humboldt University, Germany) is a Research Associate at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns colonial labor practices and the social history of domestic servants in India.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Varma, Nitin
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His project concerns "The End of Slavery, the Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Introduction of Sharecropping in the American South, 1863 to 1880". In this interview, he discusses controversies around the ratification o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Finzsch, Norbert
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Norbert Hintersteininger is a software designer for breeding software for rare domestic animals and a preserver of rare breeds in Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hintersteininger, Norbert
Created:
2014-09-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 3/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 4/16 of Oil and Water. Zygmunt Plater was chair of Alaska's Legal Task Force following the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is currently Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwate...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Plater, Zygmunt
Created:
2010-09-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 4/16 of Oil and Water. Zygmunt Plater was chair of Alaska's Legal Task Force following the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is currently Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwate...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Plater, Zygmunt
Created:
2010-09-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Olive Bieringa and Bryce Beverlin II talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project 1/2 Life, which addresses the environmental problems of nuclear residue and indestructible plastics
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bieringa, Olive; Beverlin, Bryce
Created:
2009-11-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Patricia Hampl talks to Peter Shea about the lyric voice in memoir, the first person voice in American writing, and the role of memoir in making history.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hampl, Patricia
Created:
2009-10-26
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.
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:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Paul Hillmer is director of the Hmong Oral History Project and Professor of History at Concordia University. He is author of A People’s History of the Hmong (2009), based on over 200 oral history interviews. His six-part History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, examines Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peg Meier has written seven books about Minnesotans, past and present. She was an award-winning reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 35 years before happily retiring in 2006. At the newspaper, she wrote mostly about ordinary Minnesotans who told her their extraordinary stories. Meier also found stories about Minnesota history, presented...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Peg
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 2/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Peter Kampits, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences and travels as a student and professor of philosophy, and his progression of interests from existentialism (Sartre & Camus) to analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein) to the practical discipline of biomedical ethics. He complains tha...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kampits, Peter
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Professor Peter Weisensel, Professor of History at Macalester College, is a specialist in modern Russian history. In this March 2014 interview, he talks to Peter Shea about current events in Ukraine.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weisensel, Peter
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 16/16 of Oil and Water. Barry Lehrman is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lehrman, Barry
Created:
2010-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
