Listening Exercises [ONLINE]
Instructor: Suzanne Snider
Date: Tuesday, November 28 (6:00 - 8:00 PM, ET)

**We believe our Listening Exercises are especially helpful when shared beyond the classroom. We’re offering a 25% Bring-A-Friend Discount to encourage folks to come in pairs and share their learning beyond the classroom, together. Click below to register at this rate.

Join Oral History Summer School for its second short-form online workshop in a new workshop sequence we're offering throughout 2023-24. This time around, we'll bring our famous Listening Exercises to participants. Come learn about listening—and yourself—in a fully interactive session.

While we remain loyal to the project of oral history, listening exercises benefit EVERYONE! Come as you are. No experience is necessary. No particular temperament is necessary: bring your shy, extroverted, professional, scrappy, joyous, grieving selves.

All participants will receive the Zoom link via email prior to the workshop.

This workshop will be recorded. All participants will receive this recording within 2 days of the workshop, along with a PDF of the Listening Exercise prompts. (A significant portion of the workshop involves breakout rooms during interactive exercises, which cannot be recorded; however, explanation and group debrief of the exercises will be included in the recording.)

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. We ask that participants consider their ability to pay and place themselves in the appropriate tuition-tier. Please read the descriptions below and be in touch (info@oralhistorysummerschool.com) if you would like assistance selecting your tuition tier.

Please note: 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.

Standard [Unlimited]: $77.25

Hand-up/Subsidized [Limited]: $51.50
A limited number of $50 spaces have been reserved for participants who are under-employed or work in under-resourced economies (education, social work, etc) need a hand-up at this time.

Fellowship [Limited]: $0
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.

Instructor Bio: Suzanne Snider (Founder/Director, Oral History Summer School 2012-) is a writer, documentarian, and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Her most recent projects have taken the shape of sound installation, essays, and archive design. In 2012, she founded Oral History Summer School, an interdisciplinary training program in upstate New York. She consults frequently for institutions and project teams, collaborating with organizations including the National Public Housing Museum, MoMA, Center for Reproductive Rights, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Prison Public Memory Project. As an interviewer, she has worked for Columbia University's Center for Oral History Research, New York Academy of Medicine, HBO Productions, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. You can read more about OHSS’s collaborations, here. Her own oral history projects have addressed disappearing labor forces, rehabilitative medicine, parapsychology, and feminist presses (supported by the Radcliffe Institute/Schlesinger Library Oral History Grant). Her writing/audio work appear in The Guardian, The Believer, Legal Affairs, and The Washington Post, along with several anthologies and artist catalogs; she received a 2011 commission from Triple Canopy for New Media Reporting. Snider teaches at the New School, Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies and served as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University (OHMA) in spring 2014. Prior to her work with adult learners, she taught in the New York City public school system (pre-K through 6th), and developed arts curriculum for visually impaired students at the New York Institute for Special Education. With support from the Yaddo Corporation, the MacDowell Colony and the UCross Foundation Center, she is completing her first book, The Revival. She received an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and dual BA in Literature and Dance from Wesleyan University. She is currently studying Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.