Thomas Fisher talks to Peter Shea on the commonalities of recent disasters, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and on his vision for the future of systems design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2011-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karen Campbell talks to Peter Shea about dams, levies, earthquakes, natural disasters, and the uncertainty of human impact upon the earth and environment.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Campbell, Karen
Created:
2011-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Blaine Brownell talks to Peter Shea about his conception of sustainable architecture, and architectural opportunities after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brownell, Blaine
Created:
2011-04-03
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.
Anne Hake talks to Peter Shea about her work in Port-au-Prince for three months with the American Refugee Committee researching opportunities for permanent housing solutions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hake, Anne
Created:
2011-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bill Moran describes how he became a typographer, the challenges and opportunities of contemporary typography practice, his work with the Hamilton Woodtype and Printing Museum, and the revival and copyrighting of historic fonts.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moran, Bill
Created:
2011-03-29
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.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Broadbent talks to Peter Shea shortly after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, describing his experience with Buddhism, the task of providing energy to growing industrial cities, and the ways in which Japanese national policy relates to the natual environment.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Broadbent, Jeffery
Created:
2011-03-22
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.
Part 14/16 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:
2010-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 13/16 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:
2010-11-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 12/16 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:
2010-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 11/16 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:
2010-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 10/16 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:
2010-11-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 8/16 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:
2010-10-25
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.
Juliet Schor talks to Peter Shea about her early intellectual formation, her growing dissatisfaction with conventional economics, and her decision to write for a general audience (as well as an academic audience).ÔøΩ She also talks about connections between activism and the academy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 6/16 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:
2010-10-04
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.
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 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.
Part 1/16 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:
2010-09-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Waltner talks to Peter Shea about Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci’s Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth (1602), the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Stan & Gladys Friesen have been farming near Mountain Lake, MN for over 30 years, growing corn and soybeans. Stan’s interest in alternative energy and ethanol led him to the experiment that became Gladcorn, a crunchy corn snack that crosses corn nuts and popcorn.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Friesen, Gladys; Friesen, Stan
Created:
2010-07-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Robert Gilmer talks to Peter Shea about his class, "Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010", and environmental and political questions surrounding the disaster.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebecca Scott talks to Peter Shea about the sociological factors which enable destructive environmental practices such as mountaintop removal coal mining.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Scott, Rebecca
Created:
2010-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Bohannon talks to Peter Shea about his work as science correspondent for the journal Science, and his organization of the Dance Your Ph. D. contest.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2010-04-18
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.
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.
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.
Bill Foley and Andrea Stanislav talk to Peter Shea about their recent research trip to Dubai, and an upcoming multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, global pluralism, and Dubai's highly ambitious architecture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Schumacher talks to Peter Shea about the development of her interest in words and writing, and how she arrived at short story writing and fiction.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schumacher, Julie
Created:
2009-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
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.
Stacy Alaimo talks about transcorporeality, an awareness of the body in material reality, as it relates to environmental health, monster movies, and human interactions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Alaimo, Stacy
Created:
2009-11-04
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.
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.
Josephine Lee talks to Peter Shea about her interest in plays, touching on Samuel Beckett and Modern Theater, and about conveying many cultural perspectives to students through literature.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lee, Josephine
Created:
2009-10-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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.
Carla Rahn Phillips talks to Peter Shea about her interest in the history of Early Modern Spain and the Atlantic, including maritime and naval history.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Phillips, Carla Rahn
Created:
2009-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ryan Hill and Heather Stone talk about their involvement with Sandbox Theatre, and its production process, starting without a script and developing the play by communal inquiry and creative experimentation. They also describe their production for the 2009 Fringe Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hill, Ryan| Stone, Heather
Created:
2009-07-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Light talks to Peter Shea about his work bridging concrete environmental science and abstract environmental ethics, his belief in restoration ecology, and practical ways to deal with climate change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
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.
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.