Conference on Magic History

The Los Angeles Conference on Magic History was a biennial invitation-only conference organized and hosted by Ricky Jay, Mike Caveney, John Gaughan and Jim Steinmeyer. The purpose of the conference is to showcase historical magic.

Conferences

1. 1989 - 02/04 November: De Kolta's Expanding Die, Automata, Thayer magic.
2. 1991 - 07/09 November: Rene Lavand, The Charles Carter Show.
3. 1993 - Hooker Card Rise, Sawing a Woman in Halves.
4. 1995 - 09/11 November: Tribute to Robert Lund, The Blue Room.
5. 1997 - Will, the Witch and the Watch, the Chess Automaton.
6. 1999 - 11/13 November: The Mascot Moth, the Automaton Clarinet Player.
7. 2001 - 08/10 November: Guy Jarrett’s creations, The Million Dollar Mystery, The Great Fasola.
8. 2003 - 06/08 November: Tanagra, Lesley Hazlitt (Piddington), Devant’s Chocolate Soldier from St. George's Hall and Morritt’s famous Oh! illusion from Egyptian Hall. Brindamour, "The Original Jail Breaker and Handcuff King"
9. 2005 - The Wrestling Cheese, Professor Thomas Tobin’s Palingenesia, Del Adelphia, and Kellar’s Psycho.
10. 2007 - 08/10 November: Hooker Rising Cards.
11. 2009 - Robert-Houdin's Orange Tree, David Devant's Beau Brocade, Charles Morritt's Goodbye Winter and Pierre-Jacques de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon.
12. 2011 - 10/12 November
13. 2013 - 07/08 November
14. 2015 - 05/07 November

References

• https://jimsteinmeyer.com/product-category/la-conference/