Building Your Own Oral History Transcription Style Guide
Date: Saturday, February 10, 11 AM - 7 PM ET, New York (8 AM - 4 PM PT, 10 AM - 6 PM CT)
Format: Online
Instructor: Alissa Rae Funderburk
This workshop is limited to 30 participants. 

Alissa Rae Funderburk, instructor and creator of “Talking White”: An Anti-oppression View Towards Transcribing Black Narrators (2022) returns to OHSS with a new workshop geared towards making unique transcription style guides for participants’ project needs. As always, the goal with oral history transcription is to produce a useful document that honors our narrators and the intricacies of their speech. In this all-day virtual hands-on workshop, participants will receive a step-by-step look at the Margaret Walker Center Oral History Transcription Style Guide, which was created to do just this. During the morning hours of this workshop, participants will examine the varying benefits and drawbacks of some of the oral history transcription style guides currently publicly available. In the afternoon, we’ll work together to answer some of the questions that will allow you to create a document most useful for your organization/project’s needs. Special time will be set aside for peer reviewing style guide documents in progress. 

Participants of all skill levels and experiences are welcome; you do not need to have an existing style guide prepared for participation. 

The above button will take you to the standard application form, if you would like to register at the Hand Up, Independent, or Institutional rate. Please click below if you would like to apply for a fully-funded fellowship.

The Zoom link for this workshop will be sent out one week before the workshop, and again the day of the workshop.

Tuition Fee Structure
Thank you for reviewing our tiered fee structure, which reconciles our wish to make the training increasingly accessible with our need to cover staff labor and the rising costs of our materials. Please read the descriptions below and be in touch (info@oralhistorysummerschool.com) if you would like support selecting your tuition tier.

We are committed to subsidizing several seats at the table. We are an independent school without any institutional or additional funding outside of tuition. Please give what you can so we can keep funds circulating and promote diverse participation while paying our staff a living wage.

While we will provide a recording to all who register, we hope to reserve the lower-cost seats for those intending to attend the live session.

Fellowship: $0, 2 participants
These spaces are reserved as part of an equity initiative to support more BIPOC participation and historically marginalized voices at the table and in the field. If you are eligible based on these criteria and cannot attend at the standard tuition rate, please select this option.

Hand Up/Subsidized: $40, 2 participants
A limited number of $40 spaces have been reserved for participants who work in under-resourced economies (education, social work, etc) and need a hand-up to participate at this time.

Independent/Subsidized: $160, unlimited (up to 30 participants)
This is for participants without institutional support. Please consider our Standard/Institutional rate, below. If you are at a salaried job, employed full-time or finance vacations and things like dining out, we ask you to consider our Standard/Institutional rate. 

Standard/Institutional Rate: $200, unlimited (up to 30 participants)

Note: Due to small class size, OHSS is unable to provide refunds. Tuition is non-refundable or transferable for withdrawal or cancellation.