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.
Ronald Krebs, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, conducts research at the juncture of international relations and comparative politics, with particular interests in the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service and in language and politics.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Krebs, Ronald
Created:
2015-08-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ron Reed, now deceased, was a Professor of Philosophy and Education and Director of the Analytic Thinking for Children program at Texas Wesleyan University. Probably his best known book is Rebecca, a text named after his daughter and used around the world to stimulate philosophizing by children.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reed, Ron
Created:
2005-12-01
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.
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.
Ryan Hill and Heather Stone talk about their involvement with Sandbox Theatre, and its production process, starting without a script and developing the play by communal inquiry and creative experimentation. They also describe their production for the 2009 Fringe Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hill, Ryan| Stone, Heather
Created:
2009-07-30
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.
Ryland Angel describes the beginnings of creating The Call, which began in the 2015 Spring semester at the Institute for Advanced Study. The project is headed up by Ryland Angel, Ann Waltner, and Nels Cline.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Angel, Ryland; Waltner, An
Created:
2015-07-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Salah Ammo, Kurdish musician, talks about his path to musicianship, his childhood experiences of nature, and his family. He talks about Syria's many layers of cultural history, his Kurdish background, and his life and music in Damascus and Vienna. He mentions his son's experience of moving from Syria to Vienna.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ammo, Salah
Created:
2014-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Samantha Bohrman is a writer based in Northeast Minneapolis: "Shortly after graduating from law school, I had three children and began writing novels. I have never looked back, though I suspect my husband has. When I’m not writing you can probably find me at Target forgetting to buy broccoli and shopping for scarves I don’t need. If it’s a...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohrman, Samantha
Created:
2016-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sara Evans talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the civil rights and women's movements, and the relevance of those past movements to present-day activism.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Evans, Sara
Created:
2007-02-27
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.
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.
