Carla Nappi talks to Peter Shea about her research in excavating the peoples and practices of official translation bureaus in Ming and Qing China, using dictionaries and glossaries as literary texts.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nappi, Carla
Created:
2012-12-19
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.
Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olson talk to Peter Shea about their work teaching the Women's Art Institute, an intensive studio course, and their book project dealing with the experiences of the Institute's participants.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Erickson, Elizabeth; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-02-01
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.
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.
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Ewart talks to Peter Shea about some motivations behind his Spark Festival project, such as the importance of active play for young people, and the environmental damage of contemporary society.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ewart, Douglas
Created:
2009-02-17
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.
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.
Panel Discussion on Oral History Theory and Practice Oral history allows us to access the many voices of history, not just the more powerful or dominant voices traditionally found in the written record. Many people utilize oral history in diverse ways across multiple disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences. Oral history can be a meaning...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique; Sommer, Barbara; Shea, Peter; Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Workshop on How To Do Oral History Oral history allows us to access the many voices of history, not just the more powerful or dominant voices traditionally found in the written record. Many people utilize oral history in diverse ways across multiple disciplines in the arts, humanities and sciences. Oral history can be a meaningful way to engage ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tobbell, Dominique; Sommer, Barbara; Shea, Peter; Hillmer, Paul
Created:
2014-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Harry Baulisch talks to Peter Shea and Valentine Cadieux about his experience managing a rural food shelf, his beliefs about generosity, and his thoughts on ideal employment conditions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baulisch, Harry; Cadieux, Valentine
Created:
2012-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kairn Klieman talks to Peter Shea about her use of comparative linguistic research to reconstruct the history of pre-colonial African peoples and ongoing anthropological racism towards indigenous Africans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klieman, Kairn
Created:
2007-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sarah Tracy talks to Peter Shea about taking a humanities approach to address questions in current medical practice, from sports injuries to ADHD treatment, and about the medicalization of social phenomena.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tracy, Sarah
Created:
2008-11-09
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.
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.
Tina Richards talks to Peter Shea about the various aspects of her outreach to her new Hmong neighbors, and about what she has learned from observing their gardening and cooking practices.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Richards, Tina
Created:
2012-08-13
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.
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.
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.
Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Bridget Regan talks to Peter Shea about discovering herself as a musician. She talks about writing, adolescence, Bipolar Disorder, and her move from her home in Boston to New York.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Regan, Laura Bridget
Created:
2012-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chandos Brown talks to Peter Shea about his own personal encounter with history, as the son of a career Marine Corps father, and about his efforts to convey the idea that lives matter to his students.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brown, Chandos
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky talk to Peter Shea about the origins of the women's art movement in Minnesota, then Joyce Lyon and grad student Christina Michelon talk about a collection of ephemera recalling the same.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce; Michelon, Christina; Oransky, Howard
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
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
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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Gregory Taylor talks to Peter Shea about his weekly radio show, his fondness for the Spark Festival, a modern objectivization of music, and his formative musical experiences, in particular, learning about Javanese gamelan.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Taylor, Gregory
Created:
2007-02-04
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.
David Chang talks to Peter Shea about modern American attitudes towards historical seizure of Native American lands, about the history of the official story, and the role of historical study in demonstrating the choices that went into events.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Chang, David
Created:
2008-05-28
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.
Diane Kastiaficas talks to Peter Shea about her memories of childhood which formed her as an artist. She talks about collectors and collections, showing a collection she made as a child, and about her work as a teacher.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Katsiaficas, Diane
Created:
2013-01-25
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.
Rosalie Wahl, the first woman elected to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, talks to Peter Shea about the invasion of Iraq, the limits of executive power, international law, civil liberties, the judicial system, and the threats posed to American democracy. Peter Shea says: "My old friend Rosalie Wahl, who died recently, had to keep lots of her o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wahl, Rosalie
Created:
2003-03-20
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.
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.
Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, talks to Peter Shea about her writing, her inspiration, her Hmong identity, and her co-founding of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Yang, Kao Kalia
Created:
2008-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Iain Biggs talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which his personal life has had an impact on his artistic work, and reflects on what he has learned from conversations while in Minnesota, in particular conversations with Dakota peoples.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Biggs, Iain
Created:
2012-10-22
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.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
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.
Juliette Cherbuliez talks to Peter Shea about her interests in French Early Modern literature, the Medea myth, and stories of murder carried out by women, and how they frame our evaluations of violence. She also speaks about her educational ideals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cherbuliez, Juliette
Created:
2009-03-22
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.
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.
Ryan Skinner talks to Peter Shea about his intellectual formation as a young man, including his study with Cherif Keita at Carleton College, and his desire to learn French, as well as identity, community, music, and the interplay between present and past in contemporary Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Susan Whitfield talks to Peter Shea about her intellectual expansion from particular historical topics to a broad concern with trade and cultural exchange over hundreds of years, including the Silk Road between Europe and China, and about the ways in which history is recorded and utilized.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Whitfield, Susan
Created:
2013-01-23
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.
Gerry Kearns talks to Peter Shea about "public geographies", geographical ideas which organise much about the way we apprehend the world yet rest upon often-unexamined claims about space, place, and environment, the fundamental geographical dimensions of our world.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kearns, Gerry
Created:
2012-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
