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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

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‚Äôs 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

Description:: Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hassel, Craig
Created:: 2015-11-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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

Description:: Conevery Valencius is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she writes and teaches about U.S. environmental history, the history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. Her recent projects have focused on the history of earthquakes and seismology, the history of the environmental sciences, a...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Valencius, Conevery
Created:: 2015-04-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wessels, Cletus
Created:: 2006-06-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Morris, Christopher
Created:: 2015-04-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Professor Christoph Conrad (Universit√© de Gen√®ve, Geneva, Switzerland) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns "Unpacking ‚ÄòGlobal Aging‚Äô. Work-Retirement Arrangements between Demographic Scenarios and Welfare Regimes".
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Conrad, Christoph
Created:: 2014-10-31
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christian Koeberl is director of the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Koeberl, Christian
Created:: 2014-09-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christian Chvosta runs a coffee shop, restaurant, and gathering place on the Meidling Market Square in Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Chvosta, Christian
Created:: 2014-10-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13