Rick Prelinger founded Prelinger Archives, a collection of advertising, educational, industrial and amateur films, in 1982. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress. Rick partnered with the Internet Archive to put 2000 of his films online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. He is active around intellectual "property" and archival issues, sits on the National Film Preservation Board, and is a board member of the Internet Archive and San Francisco Cinematheque. He recently completed "Panorama Ephemera," an all-archival feature film. Rick and his spouse Megan recently opened the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private research library in San Francisco.

Megan Shaw Prelinger is a writer and artist whose works interpret American political and geographic history. She works primarily in text, both as an independent scholar and as the co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an experimental research library in San Francisco. She is architect of the library's information design. Among her works are: Promise and Response: Documenting the Atomic Era, a text installation (Simnuke Exhibit, 2005); Collective Action: A Bad Subjects Anthology (Pluto Press, 2004) (co-editor); Homeland Security, a two-channel multimedia installation (2003); the short movie Releases (2002); and The Landscape Coin, a multiple work in brass (2000) (designer, co-creator). She is also a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in seabird rescue and oil spill response.

The ISA Dinner Guest Lecture Series is a unique monthly event that brings together important speakers, members of the local cultural and intellectual community and students from the ISA for an intimate lecture, conversation and four course dinner prepared by our student body. Past guests have included astrobiologist Kevin Hand and author Beth Lisick.

If you have any severe food allergies, please notify us in your RSVP

A parking lot is available via the driveway just to the left of the building.

TIME: 6:30pm Appetizers and Drinks

7:00 Lecture

8:00 Dinner

Dessert, Coffee, questions to follow

25.00 dollars per person

Please Reply to Jon Rubin. We have a limited capacity (25 people total) so please reply ASAP as seating will be filled on a first come basis!