Catherine Levesque talks to Peter Shea about her interest in art history, natural landscapes, and Dutch artists’ role in shaping a new vision of nature in the years around 1600.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levesque, Catherine
Created:
2013-02-22
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jeff Hackworth talks to Peter Shea about his process of learning to play jazz saxophone, by playing gigs with older musicians, and explores some of the lessons which might be lost in academic music training.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hackworth, Jeff
Created:
2013-02-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
LeAnn Holland talks to Peter Shea about adult development in light of her experience as an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast, and about moving away from the omnipresence of chairs.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holland, LeAnn
Created:
2013-02-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dana Whitco talks to Peter Shea about the work of the Center for Creative Research fostering collaboration between contemporary U. S. movement artists and investigators across the arts and sciences.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitco, Dana
Created:
2013-02-25
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hans Tammen talks to Peter Shea about the experiences which went into developing his musicianship, from playing classic jazz to experimental electric guitar.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tammen, Hans
Created:
2013-02-26
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ravi Malhotra talks to Peter Shea about his two book projects: "E.T. Kingsley and the Legal Politics of Disablement," examining the connections between workplace injury, disability law and labour history (with Benjamin Isitt) and "Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights Through Narratives," which examines systemic discrimination and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Malhotra, Ravi
Created:
2013-03-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski talks to Peter Shea about her recent series of theater events in local restaurants, and the role of a theater artist in a local community.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2013-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathryn Jensen talks to Peter Shea about an organization she founded, designed to remove barriers to athletic participation for children with disabilities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jensen, Kathryn
Created:
2013-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Stone talks to Peter Shea about his research into Soviet orphanages, on the emotional lives of their inhabitants and the educational philosophy of the Soviet state.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stone, Andrew
Created:
2013-04-17
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Best Practices in the Collection of Life Stories for Scholarly and Creative Work. Caridad Svich, Rachel Jendrzejewski, and Gail Dubrow discuss best practices in the collection of life stories for scholarly and creative work. Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator living between many cultures, including inherited ones, h...
Best Practices in the Collection of Life Stories for Scholarly and Creative Work. Caridad Svich, Rachel Jendrzejewski, and Gail Dubrow discuss best practices in the collection of life stories for scholarly and creative work. Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator living between many cultures, including inherited ones, h...
Jennifer Brier talks to Peter Shea about the exhibition she helped curate at the Chicago History Museum, entitled Out in Chicago, and about History Moves, a mobile and community-co-curated public history project.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brier, Jennifer
Created:
2013-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Renata Holod is College of Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities at the History of Art Department, and Curator, Near East Section, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has carried out archeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, Central Asia, Tunisia, an...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holod, Renata
Created:
2013-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gary Kroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Plattsburgh State University. Trained in environmental history and the history of science, Professor Kroll is interested in the literal intersection of culture and nature. His project Roadkill Nation examines how Americans have thought about and dealt with the problem of animal...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kroll, Gary
Created:
2013-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dakota Hosta, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist and her involement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She talks about some ideas from feminist art theory which inform her work, the future of her art practice, and she exhibits three pieces she produced at the I...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hosta, Dakota; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jodie Ahern, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her artwork, her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, her rediscovery of feminist art, and her renewed artistic drive. She exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the future of her art practice.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ahern, Jodie; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Justine DiFiore, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist. She exhibits a portrait of photographer Wing Young Huie she produced at the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She discusses her affinity for portraiture and what she considers valuable and authentic in her work. Sh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
DiFiore, Justine; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Levin, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about the origins of her artmaking and her involvement in the 2011 and 2013 Women's Art Institutes, the latter at St. Kate's University. She identifies a need in the art world for more recognition of women's work. She exhibits four pieces she produced at the 2013 Institute which draw fr...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levin, Linda; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her current project, inspired by visits with her daughter to the Como conservatory. John Reimringer talks to Peter Shea about the sensibilities of his students and the screenplay of his novel Vestments. Together they talk about their past year of parenting.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ruth Mazo Karras talks to Peter Shea about her early interest in fantasy literature, her work reviving archived manuscripts, and love, sex, and marriage in Medieval times.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Kliesen Wehrman talks to Peter Shea about the pluralist spirit of her upbringing, the ways in which art helps her understand theology, and comparisons between theater acting and pastoral work.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wehrman, Christine Kliesen
Created:
2013-07-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Kate MacDonald, playwright and actor, talks to Peter Shea about the challenges she has faced acting in theater and writing one-woman shows, from Fluid, a "bisexual coming-of-age story", to Tap Me On The Shoulder, scheduled for five performances at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. They discuss different kinds of goals and mindsets that i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
MacDonald, Erika Kate
Created:
2013-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark came north from rural Mississippi to Minneapolis at 19, went to work in the post office, and began to act. He got his big break at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and toured with that play and others for several years. Now taking only occasional work, he reflects with Peter Shea on how ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-07-30
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.
Jack Rose talks to Peter Shea about his career path, his interests in technological gadgetry, radio broadcasting, and acting in community troupes, and how he became involved with Kristin Anderson's 2013 Fringe production Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story. He talks about some of his tenets of acting and about his time living in Germany in the 1...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rose, Jack
Created:
2013-08-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Kristin
Created:
2013-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Candy Simmons, producer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about performing her one-woman show, Expiration Date, at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about her development as an actor, leaving her family home in Alabama, trying to make it in New York, and settling in Minneapolis as an independent producer. She discusses her passion for s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Simmons, Candy
Created:
2013-08-06
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.
Danny Robinson Clark, retired actor, takes up where he left off, at his struggle with recurrent pain during acting. He talks to Peter Shea about dynamics of race and prejudice among his fellow actors, his fascination with Constantin Stanislavski's "An Actor Prepares" and John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". He discusses commonalities of playwrigh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2013-08-13
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.
Robin Gillette, Executive Director of the Minnesota Fringe Festival since 2006, speaks retrospectively to Peter Shea about the success of the 2013 Fringe, the logistics of the festival, a participant's process of creating a Fringe production, and her decision to end her tenure as Executive Director.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gillette, Robin
Created:
2013-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic and East European Languages, talks to Peter Shea about the course of her academic career from Russian literature to gender studies to visual imagery. She mentions her projects on Vladimir Putin's self-presentation and on Soviet posters, continuing to discuss wartime Soviet posters: their placement, their choic...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena
Created:
2013-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark — an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson, directors of the Women's Art Institute, discuss their reasons for founding the Insitute in 1999 at MCAD, recalling an atmosphere increasingly hostile towards women students after the women's movements of the 60s-70s and their belief in the same-sex classroom as an environment where women students' "perceptu...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2014-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jeremy Iggers, journalist and executive director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, talks to Peter Shea about his career in journalism, as well as his transition from the Star Tribune to the non-profit sector. He discusses the shortfalls of today's journalism, and the mission of the Twin Cities Daily Planet to bring light to underreported storie...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Iggers, Jeremy
Created:
2014-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Danny Robinson Clark talks to Peter Shea about his wife, Mattie. He recalls memories of her: their childhood experiences in Mississippi, her personality and determination, her family and upbringing, her love of reading, and her labor in cotton fields. He remembers her exposure to the "southern argot" and recalls her gifted storytelling, beginnin...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson
Created:
2014-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tim Hoogland, historian, talks to Peter Shea about his work as the coordinator of History Day. He discusses the challenges involved with students learning about history, lack of teacher resources, and the role of the Minnesota Historical Society in solving these conflicts. He talks about how History Day is used as a vechicle for underprivileged ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoogland, Tim
Created:
2014-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joe Amato, author and teacher, talks to Peter Shea about how his interest in history and culture developed, his experiences in Europe and Canada, and his research on the decline of regions. He discusses how his family and his upbringing affected his career and life. He also reads from a poem titled "A Trip to a Detroit Cemetary." He also discuss...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Amato, Joe
Created:
2014-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Citron talks to Peter Shea about The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus College, a retrospective exhibit of artwork by her grandmother, leading abstract expressionist Minna Citron. She talks about her involvement with Minna Citron's art, growing up in an artistic milieu and acting as he...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Citron, Chris
Created:
2014-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rhoda Gilman, retired historian, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her parents on her personal convictions, her work in social justice and human rights, and role as an activist for women historians. She also discuesses the surprises she's come across throughout her career, most of which stem from her research of Buddhism. She talks abou...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilman, Rhoda
Created:
2014-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jack Zipes, Professor of German, talks to Peter Shea about his experiences living in Germany. He discusses his how these experiences shaped the way he views and understands the United States, as well as his Jewish heritage. Zipes talks about his varied interests in literature and language, and how these passions have converged throughout his aca...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Zipes, Jack
Created:
2014-02-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Wilhide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, researching the histories of migration and refugee resettlement in Minnesota and focusing on the Somali community and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2014-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about her writing and how she came to write about racism and her students. She explains how her primary pursuits in later life have moved away from direct i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Landsman, Julie
Created:
2014-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jennifer Streb is Curator of the Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Art History at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Streb’s doctoral dissertation at Juniata dealt with Minna Citron’s social realist paintings of the 1930s-40s. Together with Christiane Citron, Streb ia curator of The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstracti...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Streb, Jennifer
Created:
2014-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Daniel Trudeau is Assistant Professor of Geography at Macalester College. As an urban social geographer, Trudeau is particularly interested in ways that social, political, legal and economic processes influence city life and landscapes, as well as the ways that people and organizations create meaningful places and landscapes through participatio...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trudeau, Dan
Created:
2014-03-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Emilie Buchwald talks to Peter Shea about how she became a children's writer: her early fascination with poetry, her college opportunities to study with John Cheever and George Plimpton, the completion of her English thesis at the University of Minnesota, her involvment at the Loft Literary Center, and her founding of Milkweed Chronicle with Ran...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Buchwald, Emilie
Created:
2014-03-07
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.
Taking Anna to the Zoo: Going to the Same Place A Lot, and Then Writing About What Happens Writers Katrina Vandenberg and John Reimringer frequently take their young daughter Anna to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. Katrina is working on a book about a girl named Anna, somewhat older than her daughter, who also frequently visits that zoo. We will ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-03-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dominique Tobbell is a historian of health care, business, and politics in the 20th century United States with a particular interest in the history of pharmaceuticals, health policy, and nursing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Meier's work explores the meaning of "open space" through animation, site-specific installations, and large-scale prints and drawings. Representing a state of mind as well as a state of being, these expansive works are redolent of the artist’s own travels crossing the Great Plains of North America and the Mongolian Steppe where her e...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Catherine
Created:
2014-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hong-Ming Liang, Ph.D., is Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth. He teaches and studies world history, Asian history, Taiwanese history and politics, human rights, global history and politics, nationalism and nation...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Liang, Hong-Ming
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Interns at The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies, supervised by Hong-Ming Liang, Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-04-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shane D. Courtland is the managing director of the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University. His main research interests lie in three different areas: political philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics. With Gerald Gaus, he is the author of the entry on Liberalism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His reviews have ap...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Courtland, Shane
Created:
2014-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Treacy has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has worked extensively with the Internet since 1995. As a former librarian, she is interested in making information accessible to more users -- by improving the pipes that the information travels through as well as improving organization of information. Towards that end, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Ann
Created:
2014-04-07
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.
Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Louis
Created:
2014-04-13
Contributed By:
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.
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.
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.
Thia Cooper is Associate Professor in Religion, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her teaching and research interests include theology and liberation, theology and development, faith and practice in faith-based aid agencies, non-western Christianities, and religion in Lat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cooper, Thia
Created:
2014-04-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Poet, environmentalist, and oral historian Joe Paddock grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections Earth Tongues (1985) and Handful of Thunder: A Prairie Cycle (1983) and the essay collection Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agricultur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paddock, Joe
Created:
2014-05-10
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.
Freya Manfred, poet, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her childhood embedded in nature on her writing. She discusses the different poets and writers who have impacted her work and guided her as a person and poet. Growing up, Manfred had a rather solidary childhood. This is manifested in much of her work, which focuses on the human rela...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Manfred, Freya
Created:
2014-06-21
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.
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.
Joe Gergen, author, talks to Peter shea about his childhood. He discusses how he transformed from an introverted child to a confident writer. He studied both mathematics and English, and his full-time occupation is in analysis. Gergen discusses how he balances his passion for writing with his career. Gergen is the author of two books, and he als...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gergen, Joe
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about her latest work. She discusses the book inspired by a trip to the zoo with her daughter Anna, as well as reading an excerpt from it. John Reimringer, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about his motivation for writing. Reimringer talks about the necessity of pushing one's...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vandenberg, Katrina; Reimringer, John
Created:
2014-07-28
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.
Sarah Stonich, best-selling author, talks to Peter Shea about her writing process. She discusses the influence of Minnesota in her novels. Stonich recounts the story of her building a cabin in northeastern Minnesota with her young son following her divorce. This process motivated her to write a memoir on the events. She discusses how this connec...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stonich, Sarah
Created:
2014-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. She has written, performed, and otherwise collaborated on performance, film, music, and public art works throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jendrzejewski, Rachel
Created:
2014-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Fischbach is Publisher at Coffee House Press. In this interview, he talks to Peter Shea about how he became involved with Coffee House, the publication decisions he makes, his relationship to the authors of published works, and the Press's commitment to experimental writing and diverse writers.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fischbach, Christopher
Created:
2014-08-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The late Jerry Blue was a senior librarian for Hennepin County and a renowned storyteller. He died in October 2014. In this interview, he talks about how he came to tell stories and how he helped others to tell their own.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Blue, Jerry
Created:
2014-08-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
