Organized in 1901 by Reverend C.T. Walker of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church as the Colored Men’s Branch, this branch first started in mid-Manhattan. It was later moved to the Harlem area and its name changed in 1919 to the One Hundred-Thirty Fifth Street Branch. In 1933 it opened a new building, and two years later took the name Harlem Branch...
Creator:
Harlem Branch YMCA
Created:
1975
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Memorabilia serves as an important source for studying the early history and programs of the Minneapolis YWCA. The scrapbooks are extensive compilations of items documenting YWCA activities. Typically, the scrapbooks contain announcements, tickets, printed programs, and extensive newspaper clippings that report on ac...
Creator:
Minneapolis YWCA
Created:
1919 - 1928
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1999 - 2000
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1993 - 1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1987 - 1993
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
The Penumbra Theatre Company Records' Production Records Collection contains materials related to Penumbra's productions records from various plays, set designs, costume designs, oversized production scripts, and programs.
Creator:
Penumbra Theatre Company
Created:
1999
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He specializes in the representations of war, genocide and mass violence, human rights, memory studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and analytic philosophy. At the IAS, Muller spoke on Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Andreas Eckert is Director of re:work International Research Center, Berlin. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eckert, Andreas
Created:
2014-11-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrea Stanislav talks to Peter Shea about her sculpture and installations, public art, and her collaborative project Dubai, Inc. undertaken with photographer Bill Foley.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Light talks to Peter Shea about his work bridging concrete environmental science and abstract environmental ethics, his belief in restoration ecology, and practical ways to deal with climate change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Pask talks to Peter Shea about his formation as a session mission, performer, and composer, his musical relationship to computers, and his enjoyment of the Spark Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pask, Andrew
Created:
2007-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Stone talks to Peter Shea about his research into Soviet orphanages, on the emotional lives of their inhabitants and the educational philosophy of the Soviet state.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stone, Andrew
Created:
2013-04-17
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.
Andy Wilhide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, researching the histories of migration and refugee resettlement in Minnesota and focusing on the Somali community and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2014-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anne Hake talks to Peter Shea about her work in Port-au-Prince for three months with the American Refugee Committee researching opportunities for permanent housing solutions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hake, Anne
Created:
2011-03-29
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.
Ann Marie Barry talks to Peter Shea about her love of literature, the neurology of visual communication, how they filter into her teaching methods, and the danger of satire.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barry, Ann Marie
Created:
2009-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Treacy has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has worked extensively with the Internet since 1995. As a former librarian, she is interested in making information accessible to more users -- by improving the pipes that the information travels through as well as improving organization of information. Towards that end, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Ann
Created:
2014-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Waltner talks to Peter Shea about Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci’s 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.
Anselm Hollo talks to Peter Shea about how he became a poet and translator, his involvement with Naropa University, and his thoughts about writing and quotation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hollo, Anselm
Created:
2007-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Barbara Draper’s poems have been or are pending publication in The Talking Stick, The Aurorean, and Passagers where her poem received an honorable mention. She’s a long time Michigander, now living in Minneapolis. For fun she enjoys downhill skiing and playing with her granddaughters.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Draper, Barbara
Created:
2016-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bill Foley and Andrea Stanislav talk to Peter Shea about their recent research trip to Dubai, and an upcoming multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, global pluralism, and Dubai's highly ambitious architecture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bill Moran describes how he became a typographer, the challenges and opportunities of contemporary typography practice, his work with the Hamilton Woodtype and Printing Museum, and the revival and copyrighting of historic fonts.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moran, Bill
Created:
2011-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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