Elizabeth Rosner in Conversation with Susan Hall on Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening

Join Mesa alum Elizabeth Rosner and artist Susan Hall as they discuss Elizabeth’s latest book THIRD EAR: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening

This illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us.

THIRD EAR braids together personal narrative with scholarly inquiry to examine the power of listening to build interpersonal empathy and social transformation. A daughter of Holocaust survivors, Rosner shares stories from growing up in a home where six languages were spoken to interrogate how psychotherapy, neurolinguistics, and creativity can illuminate the complex ways we are impacted by the sounds and silences of others.

Drawing on expertise from journalists, podcasters, performers, translators, acoustic biologists, spiritual leaders, composers, and educators, this hybrid text moves fluidly along a spectrum from molecular to global to reveal how third-ear listening can be a collective means for increased understanding and connection to the natural world.

Mesa Refuge alum Elizabeth Rosner is an author and teacher whose work focuses on the redemptive power of storytelling and deep listening. Her six books have been translated into twelve languages and have received literary prizes in the US and abroad. THIRD EAR blends personal stories of growing up in a multilingual household with multidisciplinary research about sound and silence in the natural world. Elizabeth leads writing workshops internationally; her teaching carries forward a message of perseverance and tenacious optimism.

Susan Hall is a renown painter of landscapes and everyday life. She is known for capturing the local landscape of West Marin at its essence through ethereal tone and color. Susan presents us with an illumination of the everyday as it exists within the natural world. She creates an awareness of the “sensate experience of the present moment” that is so easy to miss, yet is essential to our human experience. Her work finds home in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, New Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and the Storm King Art Center. Susan has had solo and major group exhibitions at prominent museums and galleries across the country including New York, Connecticut, Chicago, Colorado, San Francisco and Texas.

Presented in partnership with Point Reyes Books. Register here for free.

Limited to 25 guests.