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.
Christine Baeumler talks to Peter Shea about her formation as an artist, about work in East Palo Alto, in the Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, and as the artist-in-residence for two watershed districts in St. Paul, and also about a course she is teaching in spring 2013 with two colleagues, Kristine Miller and Valentine Cadieux, called "Slow Art and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine
Created:
2012-12-04
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.
Jose Herrera and Krystal Spinler talk to Peter Shea about their passion for restaurants and for food, the mechanics and dynamics of running small businesses in small towns, and their mentoring relationship.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Herrera, Jose; Spinler, Krystal
Created:
2012-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Sturdevant talks to Peter Shea about how the local context of Minneapolis shapes his art practice, and the issue of the economics of being an artist.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sturdevant, Andy
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon talks to Peter Shea about her upbringing, finding her Polish and Jewish identity, and her beliefs about the viewer's experience of art and public art.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mageen Caines talks to Peter Shea about the force that shaped her–teachers, librarians, parents, friends. A student, veteran, mother, activist, and thinker currently enrolled in the school of public health at the University of Minnesota, she discusses her experiences in the military and her work with veterans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Caines, Mageen
Created:
2012-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathleen Ryor talks to Peter Shea about her development as an art historian and her work on the Ming dynasty painter Xu Wei. She talks about her recent interest in the connections between the world of the military and the world of the artist in late Ming China. She discusses the ways in which the subject of art history is explicitly interdiscipl...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ryor, Kathleen
Created:
2012-11-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cherif Keita talks to Peter Shea about growing up in Mali, his intellectual life in Minnesota and Africa, come surprising connections he has discovered between Northfield, Minnesota and South Africa, dating back to the 19th century, and about the work done by his father to further education in Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Keita, Cherif
Created:
2012-11-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Krystal Spinler talks to Peter Shea about her passion for the restaurant business, and the role her restaurant La Plaza Fiesta plays in the construction of a multicultural community in Madelia, Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Spinler, Krystal
Created:
2012-11-16
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.
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.
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.
Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker talk to Peter Shea about the processes they use in their collaboration, centering upon both human and nonhuman imprints on the Australian landscape, such as walking through the landscape. They comment on the ways in which their landscape work looks rather exotic to them in the very different context of Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Tarlo, Harriet; Tucker, Judith
Created:
2012-10-16
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.
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.
Randel Hanson talks to Peter Shea about his role in Duluth’s sense of identity, struggles, aspirations, and challenges with respect to the robust food movement.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hanson, Randel
Created:
2012-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Juergens talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which her childhood helped her understand injustice, and the reasons that she chose to come back to Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Juergens, Ann
Created:
2012-10-02
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.
Ken Meter talks to Peter Shea about the problems of the inner city and rural areas: both are sites where people work hard but economies are set up so resources are extracted from those areas. Meter argues that inner cities and rural areas are becoming an American Third World.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meter, Ken
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jay Gabler talks to Peter Shea about his play Ivory Tower Burning, written for the 2012 Fringe Festival, and the sociological and political ideas behind it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gabler, Jay
Created:
2012-08-31
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.
Judy Harder talks to Peter Shea about practicing her values and her ethical convictions in building a new kind of Community Supported Agriculture operation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Harder, Judy
Created:
2012-08-13
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.
Graham Meriwether talks to Peter Shea about his production, director, and cinematography for the film American Meat, and the several years he spent on research and filming due to his attempts to be fair and to get to know all the parties to the dispute over how animals should be treated and how meat can be produced. In this interview, he discuss...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meriwether, Graham
Created:
2012-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kate Roberts talks to Peter Shea about her work coordinating senior and retired volunteers in Cottonwood County, Minnesota, to address problems such as hunger and transportation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Roberts, Kate
Created:
2012-07-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mari Harries talks to Peter Shea and Gabrielle Orfield about her motivation to start a restaurant, River City Eatery, in her hometown, Windom, Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Harries, Mari; Orfield, Gabrielle
Created:
2012-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her most recent book, An Alphabet Not Unlike the World, and John thinks aloud about his changing reasons for writing and motivation to undertake writing projects. Both reflect on the changes in their lives and their writing since they became parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Moseley talks to Peter Shea about food security issues in Africa, and some of the food policy issues facing African governments, in light of a recent trip to Botswana.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moseley, William
Created:
2012-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
