Information Studies Colloquia
The Information Studies Colloquium provides a forum for intellectual exchange and professional networking. All events are free and open to interested members of the community unless otherwise noted.
2023-24 Colloquia Schedule
Past postings coming here.
Watch Past Colloquia Recordings
“The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope”—October 14, 2021
with Daniel Greene
“At the Window’s Edge: Looking for Mundo Meza”—November 4, 2021
with Robb Hernández
“Intellectual Freedom Is Meaningless Without Social Justice”—November 18, 2021
with Alison Macrina
“Case Logics: A Catalog of Intellectual Furnishings”—February 10, 2022
with Shannon Mattern
“Hidden Histories: African American and Women’s Rights Scrapbooks”—April 21, 2022
with Ellen Gruber Garvey – Breslauer Scholar
OTHER LECTURES
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture Series in Archival Studies:
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture is made possible by a generous gift from Information Studies alumnus Kenneth Karmiole. The Karmiole Lecture Fund provides departmental support to bring speakers to campus for greater national and international visibility of the Archival Studies program within UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies.
January 16, 2020 – András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts Library, “Destroying and Preserving Cultural Memory in Time of War: Archives and Libraries in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s”
The Francis Clarke Sayers Lecture Series:
This annual lecture series honors Frances Clarke Sayers (1897-1989), distinguished children’s librarian, inspiring master teacher, author, storyteller, and member of the UCLA Department of Library and Information Science faculty from 1960-1989.
February 9, 2020 – Grace Lin, a NY Times bestselling author and illustrator.