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Description:: Professor Norbert Finzsch (Universit√§t zu K√∂ln, Cologne, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His project concerns "The End of Slavery, the Role of the Freedmen‚Äôs 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

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

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

Description:: Pat Nunnally talks to Peter Shea about changing human attitudes and relationships towards the Mississippi River.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Nunnally, Pat
Created:: 2011-05-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

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