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WORKSHOP: Oral History Intensive + Oral History & Public Art, June 10 - 19 (Hudson)
Jun
10
to Jun 19
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WORKSHOP: Oral History Intensive + Oral History & Public Art, June 10 - 19 (Hudson)

Instructors: Suzanne Snider with guest instructor Todd Shalom
Location: Solaris, 360 Warren Street, Hudson, New York
Tuition: $1375 + $25 materials fee

Come all ye budding oral historians, artists, advocates, and researchers who wish to make of use of oral history in your practices. This immersive summer workshop is a rigorous introduction to the field of Oral History. Over the course of twelve days, we’ll cover interview techniques, project design, recording tutorials, and ethics, along with special topics related to the field. This is a great opportunity to jump-start a project in a supportive environment, or to get this training under your belt for future projects with the benefit of deadlines and critique. Participants will be conducting interviews throughout the week. No experience necessary. This year's workshop will include special sessions on .......Read More

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WORKSHOP: I Am Sitting in a Room, Part I: Oral History and Writing* (June 27 - July 2, Hudson)
Jun
27
to Jul 2
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WORKSHOP: I Am Sitting in a Room, Part I: Oral History and Writing* (June 27 - July 2, Hudson)

Instructors: Suzanne Snider
Location: Solaris, 360 Warren Street, Hudson, New York
Tuition: $850 + $25 materials fee

In this writing and oral history workshop, students experiment with a range of literary forms that use oral history as both source material and text. Monologues, oral narratives, documentary theater, and oral tone poetry are among the traditions already defined at the intersection of writing and oral history. We'll explore these known traditions (and/or invent our own) dividing our days between discussions, writing exercises, screenings, select readings and optional workshop time.

Oral history excels at complicating the narrative. How can writers preserve and deliver the same complexity? How can we....Read More»»

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WORKSHOP: Oral History Intensive (Speaking of Art) at University of Chicago
Apr
12
to Apr 13
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WORKSHOP: Oral History Intensive (Speaking of Art) at University of Chicago

Oral History Intensive Workshop with Suzanne Snider
Location: University of Chicago, Art History Department
Instructor: Suzanne Snider
This workshop is closed to registration

The interview is an increasingly common mode of art historical research. Conversations with artists, studio assistants, curators, conservators, and technical or materials experts are a crucial complement to textual and object-based research, particularly when investigating recent histories and marginalized practices. Whether we publish these interviews as standalone texts or as evidence in our dissertations, books, and articles, we are contributing to a new historical record. The prevalence of this practice stands in stark contrast to the absence of practical training and best practices for conducting oral history interviews, as well as a lack of conceptual inquiry into the interview as a form.

As part of the Art History department’s student-run series Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice, Suzanne Snider, founder/director of Oral History Summer School, will be leading an Oral History Intensive Workshop in April 2019…..Read More, here

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WORKSHOP: Oral History: Research, Revision, Collaboration, Transformation
Mar
26
10:30 AM10:30
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WORKSHOP: Oral History: Research, Revision, Collaboration, Transformation

WORKSHOP: Oral History: Research, Revision, Collaboration, Transformation
Instructor: Suzanne Snider
Location: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Please note: This workshop is closed to registration

This workshop will serve to continue the evening presentation of 3/25, offering an interactive, hands-on introduction to oral history as an ethical interview practice through a series of short exercises and prompts. What makes oral history different from other interview styles and traditions and how might we apply these best practices in our lives and work? Oral History Summer School founder/director Suzanne Snider will guide participants through concepts and exercises seeking to integrate ideas—in the act of conversation––from fields including psychoanalysis, trauma studies, feminist theory, and disability studies. We will honor a range of motives, including but not limited to: organizing, amending the record, creating persuasive media and brokering difficult conversations.

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WORKSHOP: OHSS Mini-Intensive at Verso Books (NYC)
Mar
9
to Mar 10
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WORKSHOP: OHSS Mini-Intensive at Verso Books (NYC)

Instructors: Suzanne Snider
Location: Verso Books Loft 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, New York
Tuition: Sliding Scale, $350 - $525. Registration opens January 28

This hands-on workshop––open to all––is based on our popular 10-day intensive, covering oral history theory, method and practice. Over the course of the weekend, we'll address interview techniques, recording tutorials, ethics, memory, annotation and experimental outcomes. Come all ye documentarians, journalists, artists, media-makers, educators and those looking to learn new things in good company! No experience necessary. Read more about the workshop and sliding scale structure, here….

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WORKSHOP: Oral History for Educators
Jan
19
to Jan 21
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WORKSHOP: Oral History for Educators

This workshop is designed for educators who want to bring oral history into their classrooms or learning spaces. We’ll begin with a rigorous introduction to oral history theory, methods and practice before reviewing existing curricula as a jumping off place to design our own.

We’ll think about how oral history’s best practices dovetail with our learning objectives, seizing upon the field’s potential to support active listening, ethical documentary practice along with considerations of: primary sources, myth, memory, the archive as a future history, silence, talking across difference, problem solving, shared authority, collaborative analysis and historiography…..Read More

*photo by Walter Hergt

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