The Bat of Minerva is a philosophy interview show produced and directed by Peter Shea. It features hour long interviews with people who do philosophy for a living and with people who think about what they are doing, whatever they do for a living. The Bat airs at midnight between Saturday and Sunday on Minneapolis/Saint Paul regional channel 6, serving the Twin Cities metro area. Over the years, many IAS collaborators, fellows and guests have been "batted" and their conversations with Peter can be viewed in their entirety. Also now available is an A to Z listing of all University of Minnesota faculty who have been interviewed on the Bat of Minerva.
November 19, 2009 - John Harwood is a professor of Art History at Oberlin college, where he specializes in modern and contemporary architectural history.
November 15, 2009 - Leonard Marcus is one of the children's book world's most respected and versatile writers, historians, and critics.
November 4, 2009 - Robert Hammel is the Director/Producer of Perimeter Productions, a Minneapolis-based company that creates educational videos and provides creative direction, writing, and design for corporate services.
November 4, 2009 - Olive Bieringa, founder of the BodyCartography Project, and physicist Bryce Beverlin II talk about 1/2 Life, a project which addresses the environmental problems of nuclear residue and indestructible plastics.
November 3, 2009 - Stacy Alaimo is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, and green cultural studies, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000).
October 30, 2009 - Ellen Kennedy is the outreach coordinator and interim director at the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
October 15, 2009 - Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.
October 9, 2009 - Jack Becker is founder and Executive Director of Forecast Public Art, established in 1978.
September 25, 2009 - Dr. Matt Huber is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant. He argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction.
August, 2009 - The Minnesota Fringe Festival is the Midwest’s largest performing arts festival—and the largest nonjuried, uncensored Fringe in the United States.
April 27, 2009 - Eric Avila is a professor of History, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA. He is author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
April 22, 2009 - Andrew Light is a professor of Philosophy and Environmental Policy and Director for the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University.
April 14, 2009 - Michael Fortun is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His most recent work is Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (2008).
April 12, 2009 - Guillaume Boccara is a Quadrant fellow, and a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he is studying multiculturalism in modern Chile. He is also a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológica y Museo at the Northern Catholic University in Chile.
April 10, 2009 - George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.
April, 2009 - Juliette Cherbuliez is a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Her research is on premodern literature and culture.
March 29, 2009 - Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film, where she teaches in the areas of theatre history and culture studies.
March 22, 2009 - Ann Marie Barry is a professor of Communication at Boston College and Associate Director of the College Capstone Program.
February 24, 2009 - Susan Buck-Morss is a professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government and professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Cornell University.
February 17-22, 2009 - Spark Festival 2009 - The Bat interviews Joel Ryan, Megan England, Douglas Ewart, Caly McMorrow, Terry Pender, Xenia Pestova and Erika Donald, and Cathy Van Eck about electronic music, dance and art in the 21st Century.
February, 2009 - Douglas Geers is a composer, a professor of Music Composition and Director of the STRUM Electronic Music Studios at the School of Music of the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), where he founded and directs the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.
February, 2009 - Keir Neuringer is a composer and performer who also writes texts and makes videos and installations critical of the destructive behavior of the dominant culture.
February, 2009 - Andréa Stanislav is a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota and practices a multimedia approach to art making, inspired by the language of film, architecture, and pop culture.
February, 2009 - Garrick Comeaux is the founder of Consortium Carissimi, a group created in 1996 with the intent of uncovering and bringing to modern-day ears the long forgotten ltalian-Roman music of the 16th and especially the 17th century.
February 15, 2009 - Bill Foley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and a professor of Photography at Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana.
January 18 and 25, 2009 - The Meaning of Calculus in the 17th Century - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
January 4, 2009 - Science in Japan in the War Years - Hiromi Mizuno is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
December 9, 2008 - Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University and the editor of the Posthumanities series at the University of Minnesota Press
November 24, 2008 - The Spirit and Mechanisms of Magic - Eric Van Duzer is a professor of education at Humboldt State University in California. He is also a talented magician.
November 23, 2008 - Medical Humanities - Sarah W. Tracy is Director of the Medical Humanities Program in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma.
November 9, 2008 - A lifetime of interest in words and wordplay - Maria Damon is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
October 26 and November 2, 2008 - Controversies about Mathematical Knowledge and Leibniz and Newton: Continuity and Controversy - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
October 12, 2008 - Two Scholars: History and Environmental Ethics - William Cunningham is an environmental scientist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota. He is particularly interested in conservation biology and environmental issues. J. Baird Callicott is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He taught an early environmental ethics course at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point in 1971 and environmental ethics has remained his central focus.
September 18, 2008 - The Body in the Middle Ages - Caroline Walker Bynum is professor of Western European Middle Ages in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).
September 16, 2008 - Understanding Spaces - Arijit Sen teaches in the School of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
September 11, 2008 - Writing Plays About Aboriginal Issues - David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer.
May, 2008 - David Chang is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota where he studies race, nationhood, and Native American culture.
May 8, 2008 - Moishe Postone is a Professor of History at the University of Chicago who focuses on the problems of modern anti-Semitism and questions of history, memory, and identity in postwar Germany.
April 14, 2008 - Kao Kalia Yang is the author of Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, April 2008). She is a Twin Cities-based writer and film maker, and she is the co-founder of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
April 10, 2008 - David Beard and Mark Huglen of the Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative are both interested in issues of communication and critical theory. Huglen is a professor of Communication at UMN Crookston and Beard is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at UMN Duluth.
March 28, 2008 - Caryl Clark is a professor of Music at the University of Toronto.
March 26, 2008 - Leigh Fondakowski is a playwright and the author of The Laramie Project and The People's Temple. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Glickman award for best new play for The People's Temple.
March 6, 2008 - Eric Black was a journalist for the Star Tribune for three decades and founder of its blog, the Big Question, before taking a buyout in June of 2007 and starting his own blog called Eric Black Ink. Black Ink recently became part of the new online startup MinnPost.com.
February, 2008 - John Treat is a professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he specializes in modern Japanese fiction.
February 9, 2008 - Suzanne Cahill is a professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
January, 2008 - Reggie Prim is a speaker on activist art, arts in the public domain and the community cultural development movement, who leads workshops, designs public arts experiences, and serves as a volunteer leader for a number of cultural organizations in the Twin Cities.
December, 2007 - Jan Estep is a photographer and a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota.
December, 2007 - Erik Olin Wright is a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
November 9, 2007 - Abé Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
November, 2007 - Susan MacIntosh is a professor of Anthropology at Rice Universiy. Her current research focuses on the emergence of large-scale, complex societies in Africa and the impact of climate and environmental change on human society in the past.
November, 2007 - Kairn Klieman is a professor of History at the University of Houston where she works with both the pre-colonial history of central Africa and, more recently, the cultural and historical consequencs of the oil industry in post-colonial Africa.
November, 2007 - Roger Hart is a professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where he works in Chinese history and the history of science and mathematics in China.
November, 2007 - Geraldine Heng is Director of the Medieval Studies Program and Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Global Middle Ages Project.
November, 2007 - Dan Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and a prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology.
August, 2007 - Michael Gaudio is a professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and a founding member of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
March, 2007 - Jeff Halper is the co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions which challenges and resists the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
March, 2007 - Sara Evans is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in gender analysis, family history, and American women's history.
March, 2007 - Anselm Hollo is a Finnish poet and translator and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics Department at The Naropa Institute.
March, 2007 - Michael Cherlin is a Professor of Theory and Composition in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.
February 27, 2007 - Andrew Pask is a musician and composer who uses his knowledge of computers to create new types of electronic music.
February, 2007 - Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems.
February, 2007 - Gregory Taylor hosts RTQE, a weekly radio/webcast program of electronic and experimental music in Madison, Wisconsin and has done so since 1986.
February, 2007 - Brad Garton is currently on the Music Faculty of Columbia University, where he serves as Director of the Computer Music Center (formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center).
February, 2007 - Guerino Mazzola is a professor of Music and a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.
February, 2007 - Evan Solot is an award-winning composer. His music has been performed by some of the country's leading jazz performers and has featured in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," Naxos Records' American Essentials series, and the NBC Nightly News theme.
February, 2007 - Claudia Robles is an installation and media artist. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she is currently, an artist in residence at the KHM (Academy of Media Arts) in Cologne, Germany, where she is working on a new Interactive performance using a EEG interface.
February, 2007 - Susannah L. Smith is a historian specializing in Russia and modern Europe at the University of Minnesota and the managing director of the Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a member of Sumunar, a Twin Cities-based Indonesian music and dance ensemble.
December, 2006 - Christine Marran is a professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in modern Japanese culture and literature with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture.
November, 2006 - Madelon Sprengnether is a Regents Professor in the department of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a poet and feminist scholar, specializing in Freud, psychoanalytic criticism and women writers.
November, 2006 - Shohini Ghosh is an award-winning filmmaker and Associate Professor, Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi.
October, 2006 - William LaFleur is E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan (Princeton University Press 1992), and principal editor of Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research (Indiana University Press, 2007).
September, 2006 - Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and is a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.
May, 2006 - Ann Waltner is a professor in both the Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and she is also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.
2005 - Peter Shea is a professor of Philosophy and the producer and director of the Bat of Minerva.