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.
Part 13/16 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:
2010-11-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Freya Manfred, poet, talks to Peter Shea about the influence of her childhood embedded in nature on her writing. She discusses the different poets and writers who have impacted her work and guided her as a person and poet. Growing up, Manfred had a rather solidary childhood. This is manifested in much of her work, which focuses on the human rela...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Manfred, Freya
Created:
2014-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From Feminism to Structural Racism and Resistance: What is the Connection? Beryl Satter is Faculty in the Dept. of History and the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers University—Newark. Her first book, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (University of California Press, 1999) e...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Satter, Beryl
Created:
2016-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Garrick Comeaux talks to Peter Shea about his pursuit of early music and singing, his travel through Italy and Germany, and his doctorate in sacramental theology.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Comeaux, Garrick
Created:
2009-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Gary Kroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Plattsburgh State University. Trained in environmental history and the history of science, Professor Kroll is interested in the literal intersection of culture and nature. His project Roadkill Nation examines how Americans have thought about and dealt with the problem of animal...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kroll, Gary
Created:
2013-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Geoffrey Sirc talks to Peter Shea about his approach towards teaching writing composition, using unorthodox writing assignments to give students a position of personal authority.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sirc, Geoffrey
Created:
2010-02-25
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.
