Important details for the Compleat Biographer Conference At Davidson Center on USC Campus

An easy to use grid of Saturday' and Sunday's schedule may be seen here.

The complete program (including the schedule at a glance) may be downloaded. See link below.

Friday May 18

• Take an all-day research tours (spots still open) Let us know if this interests you.
• Tour the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library. Completed in 1932, the library—with its Italian Romanesque architecture and furnishings created from many woods native to California—is home to a large research collection. (10 AM) Details can be seen here.
• Hazel Rowley Fund Reception. 6:00-7:30 at the USC University Club (directions)

Saturday May 19

• See program for details
• Parking is available in parking structure D at Gate 5 on Jefferson and McClintock (map)

Directions to Parking Structure D from Gate 5:
After turning onto McClintock Ave, turn left at the 1st stop sign (W. 34th St). Proceed past the 3rd stop sign to Parking Structure D (PSD) on the left. Davidson Conference Center is just east of the structure

Directions to Parking Structure X to Davidson Conference Center (about 3 minutes walking)
After turning into Gate 3, turn left into Parking Structure X (PSX). Once you have parked, walk north (if you are facing the quad and standing right in front of parking structure, walk to your left) from PSX towards.34th Street. Make a right at W. 34th Street. Once you make a right Davidson Conference Center is about 100 feet away.

Sunday May 20

• See Program for details

SPECIAL SUNDAY TOUR

Thanks to Heather Robinson Long, author of the forthcoming Chasing Claire Adams, conference attendees are invited to take a special guided tour of the Seaver Center for Western History Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. The tour will be from 10:00 a.m. to Noon on Sunday May 20.

The tour will be led by Dr. John Long, the museum’s vice president of research, and Beth Werling, History Collection manager and silent film historian

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is home to the second largest natural science and social history collection in the United States. The museum’s Seaver Center for Western History Research collects, preserves, and makes available archival materials relating to the history of the trans-Mississippi West, with a particular focus on Southern California and Los Angeles. The History Department was one of the first institutions to preserve materials from the motion picture industry. To reserve a spot on this exciting tour, email us at james@biographersinternational.org

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Directions

Registrants will receive detailed instructions before the conference. But here is a link to a map showing the location of the Davidson Center.

Download the program here!