Megan England talks to Peter Shea about her compositional processes, her current mobile guerilla project, and the character of cities and acoustic environments.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
England, Megan
Created:
2009-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains records created/collected by the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, now United Neighborhood Centers of America, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, and other documents. The Federation, which was founded in 1911, included local settlement houses and ...
Creator:
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers
Created:
1969 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Matthew Trumbull, writer and actor, talks to Peter Shea about The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children, a one-man show about his father, which he performed at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. He talks about his development as an actor and the circumstances which gradually convinced him to undertake a one-man show: notably, his father's death and do...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Trumbull, Matthew
Created:
2013-08-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matteo Convertino is Assistant Professor in the UMN School of Public Health’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and Principal Investigator of the HumNat Lab for Analysis, Modeling and Management of Complex Biological and Socio-technical Systems.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Convertino, Matteo
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Treacy, librarian and activist, talks to Peter Shea about her passion for information accessibility. She describes the conception of The Minnesota Center for the Book and how the center filled an important void in the world of libraries and information ciruculation. The Minnesota Center for the Book's first major project involved the preser...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Mary
Created:
2014-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Now chaplain at Minnetonka Shores Presbyterian Home in Minnetonka, Mary Pauluk was for a long time chaplain at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield, Minnesota. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to move back to small-town Minnesota after living in the big city.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pauluk, Mary
Created:
2002-05-01
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.
Mary Beth Stein is a former adjunct theology teacher at St. Catherine’s University, and an activist involved with the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about experiences in her life which motivate her to work for social justice, inclusion, and gender equity in the catholic church. She talks about ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stein, Mary Beth
Created:
2013-08-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) since 2002. Writing about his work in Austria, Balluch says activism has given Austria animal protect...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Balluch, Martin
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mark L. Winston is recognized as one of the world’s leading expert on bees and pollination, having had an illustrious career researching, teaching, writing and commenting on bees and agriculture, environmental issues and science policy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Winson, Mark
Created:
2015-08-02
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.
Margot Fortunato Galt grew up a Yankee in South Carolina during the 1950s. Her memoir, poetry, and prose often return to this period, or to her Italian/American background. She has published seven books, two of which were nominated for Minnesota Book Awards. Her poetry and creative prose appear in five anthologies and many small-press journals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Galt, Margot
Created:
2014-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marcus Nornes talks to Peter Shea about his interest in Japanese documentary cinema, including propaganda films of World War Two, and about the ways in which films present moral choices to their audience.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Nornes, Marcus
Created:
2007-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Manuel Esnoz is an Argentine visual artist and painter. He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York..
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Esnoz, Manuel
Created:
2014-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
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.
Madelon Sprengnether talks to Peter Shea about two recent projects, a memoir and a book of prose poems, the process of choosing and developing a written form, and the power of films.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sprengnether, Madelon
Created:
2006-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Louis
Created:
2014-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Levin, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about the origins of her artmaking and her involvement in the 2011 and 2013 Women's Art Institutes, the latter at St. Kate's University. She identifies a need in the art world for more recognition of women's work. She exhibits four pieces she produced at the 2013 Institute which draw fr...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levin, Linda; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about some ethical questions that arise when writing plays based on real events using oral history interviews with real people.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2008-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
LeAnn Holland talks to Peter Shea about adult development in light of her experience as an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast, and about moving away from the omnipresence of chairs.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holland, LeAnn
Created:
2013-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lawrence Venuti talks to Peter Shea about how he came to be a translator, the role that translation plays in world literature, the invisibility of the translator, translation and difference, and the pedagogy of translation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Venuti, Lawrence
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laurie Green talks to Peter Shea about the research that went into her book, "Battling the ‘Plantation Mentality’: Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Green, Laurie
Created:
2011-04-21
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.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This file folder is from the collection of records of La Raza Student Cultural Center (name changed to Mi Gente Latinx Student Cultural Center as of 2021), which includes administrative documents, newsletters, news clippings and flyers, correspondence, minutes, etc. that document the beginnings of La Raza on campus, including its founding as the...
Creator:
La Raza Student Cultural Organization
Created:
1976 - 1999
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
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.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Kristin
Created:
2013-08-05
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.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From 1957 to 1962 Eklund assisted in determining the library needs of the new Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, through the University’s partnership with SNU and the International Cooperation Administration to advise SNU and to assist in the re-building of academic programs.
Creator:
Eklund, Myrtle Jeannette, 1905-1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
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.