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.
Deanne and Steve Bryce talk to Peter Shea about food, cuisine, preparation, allergens, menus, changing perceptions and behaviors, and their restaurant, Solar's Real Food, in Springfield, Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bryce, Deanne; Bryce, Steve
Created:
2013-03-26
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.
Dr. Deborah L. Swackhamer studies the processes affecting the behavior of, and exposures to, toxic chemicals in the environment and works on policies to address these potential risks. She is a Professor of Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and served as Co-director of the Water Resources C...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Swackhamer, Deborah
Created:
2015-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diana Eicher is MCAD’s Printshop and Paper Studio Coordinator and has taught at the University of Hawaii, the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Bloomington Art Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Textile Center of Minnesota. She was also a convener of the 2015-16 IAS Bee Arts Collaborative.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eicher, Diana
Created:
2015-09-04
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.
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.
Don Kemp worked as a math teacher at North High School, Minneapolis, and as a minister. In this interview, he talks about his experiences growing up on the farm and in the church, his work in engineering and ministry, and the challenges of teaching math within and "around the edges" of the public education system.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kemp, Donald
Created:
2007-02-01
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.
Douglas Huff is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, and a professionally produced playwright. His philosophical interests have focused on a variety of problems in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, and issues raised by Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Huff, Douglas
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Over the next several years, Elaine’s research will explore how scientists in several national and r...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ecklund, Elaine
Created:
2016-03-24
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.
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.
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.
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.
Emma is a writer based in Klamath Falls, Oregon whose work focuses on complex intersections between conservation, ecology, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her stories help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet’s species, and how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marris, Emma
Created:
2015-04-17
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.
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.
Eric Black talks to Peter Shea about journalistic conventions, norms, and decision processes, and his attempts to convey more honest reporting as an online journalist.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Black, Eric
Created:
2008-03-06
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 Van Duzer talks to Peter Shea about his collaborative research with his sister, Leslie Van Duzer, into the similarities of magic trick and architectural design.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Van Duzer, Eric
Created:
2008-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Donald and Xenia Pestova talk to Peter Shea about their involvement in the Spark 2009 Festival, as part of their Digital Orchestra Project, utilizing digital musical instruments.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Donald, Erika| Pestova, Xenia
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Erika Holmquist-Wall and Donald Myers give Peter Shea a tour of the installation "150 Years of Swedish Art" in the Hillstrom Museum at Gustavus Adolphus.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holmquist-Wall, Erika; Myers, Donald
Created:
2012-11-06
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.
Ernesto Velez Bustos talks to Peter Shea about the processes that led him to Minnesota, his work with Centro Campesino to improve the situation of Hispanic workers in Minnesota, and the dynamics of the community.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bustos, Ernesto Velez
Created:
2012-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eugene McCarthy, retired US senator from Minnesota, now deceased, talks to Peter Shea on Good Friday. He compares the temptations of characters in the Good Friday story to those of American leaders during the Vietnam War: money, power, pride, belonging. He considers the dual nature of responsibility, the pressures that compel otherwise good peop...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McCarthy, Eugene
Created:
2003-06-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eugene Quinn, radio producer, DJ, and writer, talks to Peter Shea. He describes his upbringing, his parents' appreciation of words, and his life in Austria as an expatriate from London. He discusses his work with cultural organization Space and Place on the Vienna Coffeehouse Conversations and describes some of Vienna's political, social, and et...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Quinn, Eugene
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eva Hudecova is a Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, and a co-translator of Slovak author Michal Hvorecký’s novel "Danube in America". She also spoke about the collaborative translation project in a discussion in April 2015.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hudecova, Eva
Created:
2015-05-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
