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Daniel Block, Professor of Geography, on Mapping Food Access, March 2011

Description:: Daniel Block talks to Peter Shea about his interest in maps, Geographic Information Systems, and his study of food access in urban areas.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Block, Daniel
Created:: 2011-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Psyche Williams-Forson, Professor of American Studies, on Food, March 2013

Description:: Psyche Williams-Forson talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which food culture reflects class, race, and social position.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Williams-Forson, Psyche
Created:: 2011-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Richard Wilk, Professor of Anthropology, on Civilisation, March 2011

Description:: Richard Wilk talks to Peter Shea about civilisations across time and place.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wilk, Richard
Created:: 2011-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Thomas Wolfe, Professor of History, on His Life, February 2011

Description:: Thomas Wolfe talks to Peter Shea about his intellectual development, journey to academia, and the importance of thought for its own sake.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wolfe, Thomas
Created:: 2011-02-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Maran Wolston, Philosopher, on Philosophy and Multiple Sclerosis, February 2011

Description:: Maran Wolston talks to Peter Shea about her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, and some pursuant philosophical questions.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wolston, Maran
Created:: 2011-02-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Magne Ove Varsi, Sami Rights Leader, on Sami Rights

Description:: Magne Ove Varsi talks to Peter Shea about the struggle of the Sami people for recognition and rights from the Norwegian nation-state.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Varsi, Magne Ove
Created:: 2011-02-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Matt Sobek, Microdata Manager, on Census Data, February 2011

Description:: Matt Sobek talks to Peter Shea about his work at the Minnesota Population Center processing bulk census data from various nations.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Sobek, Matt
Created:: 2011-02-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Post-Oil Urbanism: Barry Lehrman, Dec. 2010

Description:: Part 16/16 of Oil and Water. Barry Lehrman is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. 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...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Lehrman, Barry
Created:: 2010-12-06
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Don Davis, Cultural Geographer, on the Louisiana Wetlands, November 2010

Description:: Don Davis talks to Peter Shea about conducting oral history research into the Louisiana Wetlands, and his interest in cultural geography.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Davis, Don
Created:: 2010-11-30
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Nov. 2010

Description:: Part 14/16 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:: 2010-11-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Fishing Closures and Contamination after the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Nov. 2010

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Adair Rounthwaite, Art Historian, on Participatory Art, November 2010

Description:: Adair Rounthwaite talks to Peter Shea about relational aesthetics and participatory art.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Rounthwaite, Adair
Created:: 2010-11-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Environmental Restoration after the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Nov. 2010

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Regulation and Moratorium after the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Nov. 2010

Description:: Part 11/16 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:: 2010-11-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Public Responses to the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Nov. 2010

Description:: Part 10/16 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:: 2010-11-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Containing the BP Oil Spill: Robert Gilmer, Oct. 2010

Description:: Part 8/16 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:: 2010-10-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Joshua Page, Professor of Sociology, on Prison Workers, October 2010

Description:: Joshua Page talks to Peter Shea about his research into the attitudes of prison workers towards crime and rehabilitation.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Page, Joshua
Created:: 2010-10-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Moving to Green Economies of Plenitude: Juliet Schor, Oct. 2010

Description:: Part 7/16 of Oil and Water. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. 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 ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Schor, Juliet
Created:: 2010-10-06
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Moving to Green Economies of Plenitude (Q&A): Juliet Schor, Oct. 2010

Description:: Part 7/16 of Oil and Water. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. 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 ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Schor, Juliet
Created:: 2010-10-06
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, on Conventional Economics, October 2010

Description:: Juliet Schor talks to Peter Shea about her early intellectual formation, her growing dissatisfaction with conventional economics, and her decision to write for a general audience (as well as an academic audience).ÔøΩ She also talks about connections between activism and the academy.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Schor, Juliet
Created:: 2010-10-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

The Politics of Oil: Robert Gilmer, Oct. 2010

Description:: Part 6/16 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:: 2010-10-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Mike Tidwell, Author and Filmmaker, on Climate Change, September 2010

Description:: Mike Tidwell talks to Peter Shea about environmental change on a local level in the Louisiana Bayou and as a matter of national attention.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Tidwell, Mike
Created:: 2010-09-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Oil Spills in the Gulf and Alaska (Q&A): Zygmunt Plater, Sep. 2010

Description:: Part 4/16 of Oil and Water. Zygmunt Plater was chair of Alaska's Legal Task Force following the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is currently Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. 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 Deepwate...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Plater, Zygmunt
Created:: 2010-09-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Oil Spills in the Gulf and Alaska: Zygmunt Plater, Sep. 2010

Description:: Part 4/16 of Oil and Water. Zygmunt Plater was chair of Alaska's Legal Task Force following the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is currently Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. 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 Deepwate...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Plater, Zygmunt
Created:: 2010-09-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Oil Spills, Environmentalism, and Regulation: Robert Gilmer, Sep. 2010

Description:: Part 3/16 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:: 2010-09-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Peoples of the Gulf, Flooding, and Dead Zones: Robert Gilmer, 2010

Description:: Part 2/16 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:: 2010-09-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Gulf History and Ecology: Robert Gilmer, Sep. 2010

Description:: Part 1/16 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:: 2010-09-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Kathy Jensen, Actor and Writer, on Acting, August 2010

Description:: Kathy Jensen talks to Peter Shea about her interest in theater and acting.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Jensen, Kathy
Created:: 2010-08-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Ted Farmer, Professor of History, on Humanity, August 2010

Description:: Ted Farmer talks to Peter Shea about human history, theology, science, ethics, and the future of civilization.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Farmer, Ted
Created:: 2010-08-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Kate Elise, Director, on the Fringe Festival, August 2010

Description:: Kate Elise talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the Fringe Festival 2010.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Elise, Kate
Created:: 2010-08-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Savannah Rhomberg-Reich, Playwright, on Theater, August 2010

Description:: Savannah Rhomberg-Reich talks to Peter Shea about her interest in theater and her involvement in the Fringe Festival.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Rhomberg-Reich, Savannah
Created:: 2010-08-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Evalyn Parry, Playwright and Musician, on the Fringe Festival, August 2010

Description:: Evalyn Parry talks to Peter Shea about her involvement in the Fringe Festival 2010, and her interest in theater and teaching.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Parry, Evalyn
Created:: 2010-08-12
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Ann Waltner, Professor of History, on Matteo Ricci's Map, July 2010

Description:: Ann Waltner talks to Peter Shea about Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci‚Äôs Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth (1602), the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Waltner, Ann
Created:: 2010-07-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Stan & Gladys Friesen, Inventors of Gladcorn, July 2010

Description:: Stan & Gladys Friesen have been farming near Mountain Lake, MN for over 30 years, growing corn and soybeans. Stan‚Äôs interest in alternative energy and ethanol led him to the experiment that became Gladcorn, a crunchy corn snack that crosses corn nuts and popcorn.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Friesen, Gladys; Friesen, Stan
Created:: 2010-07-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Robert Gilmer, Postdoc in Native American History, on Oil and Water, June 2010

Description:: Robert Gilmer talks to Peter Shea about his class, "Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010", and environmental and political questions surrounding the disaster.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Gilmer, Robert
Created:: 2010-06-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Judith Jack Halberstam, Professor of English, on her Writings, June 2010

Description:: Judith Jack Halberstam talks to Peter Shea about her writings, addressing issues such as feminism and gender norms, and her attitudes toward teaching.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Halberstam, Judith Jack
Created:: 2010-06-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Raymond Geuss, Professor of Philosophy, on Doing Philosophy, May 2010

Description:: Raymond Geuss talks to Peter Shea about Catholicism, the value of practicing philosophy from a historical perspective, and his university teaching.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Geuss, Raymond
Created:: 2010-05-05
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Maria Fitzgerald, Professor of English, on her Writing and Teaching, May 2010

Description:: Maria Fitzgerald talks to Peter Shea about her writing and the writers who influenced it, her British identity, and her teaching.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Fitzgerald, Maria
Created:: 2010-05-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Rebecca Scott, Professor of Sociology, on Coal Mining, April 2010

Description:: Rebecca Scott talks to Peter Shea about the sociological factors which enable destructive environmental practices such as mountaintop removal coal mining.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Scott, Rebecca
Created:: 2010-04-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Jane Kirtley, Professor of Media Ethics and Law, on Freedom of the Press, April 2010

Description:: Jane Kirtley talks to Peter Shea about free speech, freedom of the press, systems of accountability, and public access to information.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Kirtley, Jane
Created:: 2010-04-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

John Bohannon, Science Writer, on Dancing Your Ph. D., April 2010

Description:: John Bohannon talks to Peter Shea about his work as science correspondent for the journal Science, and his organization of the Dance Your Ph. D. contest.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Bohannon, John
Created:: 2010-04-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Cindy Patton, Professor of Sociology, on AIDS Treatment, April 2010

Description:: Cindy Patton talks to Peter Shea about her ethnographic research into AIDS treatment clinics.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Patton, Cindy
Created:: 2010-04-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, on the Role of Architecture, April 2010

Description:: Juhani Pallasmaa talks to Peter Shea about the way architecture shapes human life and mediates between groups of people.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Pallasmaa, Juhani
Created:: 2010-04-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Leigh Fondakowski, Playwright, on The Laramie Project, April 2010

Description:: Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:: 2010-04-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Tom Conley, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Cinema, April 2010

Description:: Tom Conley talks to Peter Shea about his interest in American cinema which began at an early age.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Conley, Tom
Created:: 2010-04-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Mark Zmudy, Professor of Health, on Adventure Education, April 2010

Description:: Mark Zmudy talks to Peter Shea about his interest in adventure and outdoor education and their integration with formal education.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Zmudy, Mark
Created:: 2010-04-07
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Randall Curren, Professor of Philosophy, on Sustainability, March 2010

Description:: Randall Curren talks to Peter Shea about human obstacles to sustainability.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Curren, Randall
Created:: 2010-03-31
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Ray Gonzalez, Professor of English, on Teaching Poetry, March 2010

Description:: Ray Gonzalez talks to Peter Shea about teaching poetry to university students.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Gonzalez, Ray
Created:: 2010-03-31
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Paula Findlen, Professor of History, on Leonardo Da Vinci, March 2010

Description:: Paula Findlen talks to Peter Shea about Renaissance Italian history, Leonardo daVinci, Athanasius Kircher, and other creative historical polymaths.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Findlen, Paula
Created:: 2010-03-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Margaret Crawford, Professor of Architecture, on Garage Sales, March 2010

Description:: Margaret Crawford talks to Peter Shea about her study of garage sales in Los Angeles.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Crawford, Margaret
Created:: 2010-03-23
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

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