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.
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.
Milena Klimek is a Masters student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. Her research title is "Farmer and Consumer Practices;A Social Theory Perspective of Organic Partnerships in Austria and Minnesota".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klimek, Milena
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebecca Louise Paxton is a graduate student working in the Institute for Organic Agriculture, a part of the University of Natural of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Her thesis work explores the meaning of one of the ethical principles that guide the organic agriculture movement in Europe: "Organic Agriculture should sustain and en...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paxton, Rebecca Louise
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2011-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State Sacramento. His current research includes quantitatively and qualitatively examining how high-stakes testing and accountability-based reforms and market reforms impact urban minority ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Heilig, Julian Vasquez
Created:
2015-09-25
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.
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.
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.
Italo-Canadian dancer and choreographer Gioconda Barbuto is the 2015 McKnight International Artist. A dancer of explosive wit, subtle intelligence, and a fine sense of theatricality, Gioconda has distinguished herself throughout her career in an impressive number of works. She danced with the Minnesota Dance Theatre before becoming a soloist wit...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barbuto, Gioconda
Created:
2015-11-18
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.
