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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">Please join us at this event in the <a href="http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/unarchiving-blackness" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Unarchiving
Blackness</span></a> Sawyer Seminar on Thursday, 5/4 at 12:30pm in HNMSS 1500.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Register to attend via Zoom:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/BUTLERxUCR" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://tinyurl.com/BUTLERxUCR</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The <a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/unarchiving-blackness/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Unarchiving Blackness Mellon Sawyer Seminar</span></a> hosts a conversation on
<b>Octavia E. Butler's Archive & Climate Change</b>, featuring scholars <a href="https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/collins_alyssa.php" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Alyssa Collins</span></a>, and <a href="http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Ayana Jamieson</span></a>, moderated by <b>Professor Jade Sasser</b> of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, and Health Equity. Butler was a visionary science fiction and fantasy author whose novels and stories wrestled
with changes to our world and its people, including a future California. Our speakers have worked firsthand with her archive at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. They share their insights with us as part of our Spring 2023 focus on
<b>Technology, Afrofuturism, and Black Speculative Practices</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Ayana Jamieson, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"> is an assistant
professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, a mythologist, and depth psychologist. She is the founder of the
<a href="http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com/" target="_blank">Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network</a>, a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Dr. Jamieson’s
essay, “Far Beyond the Stars” appears in the <i>Black Futures</i> anthology. She has also published at
<a href="https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/black-women-writers/" target="_blank">
<i>The Feminist Wire</i></a>, <i>Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction</i>,
<a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/octavias-future-present-book-of-martha/" target="_blank">
<i>Public Books</i></a></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">,
</span></u><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"> </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/harvest-survivors-30-years-after-octavia-e-butler-s-parable-sower" target="_blank"><i>Sierra
Club Magazin</i></a><i>e </i>and elsewhere. She was a featured speaker at the <i>
New York Times</i> “<a href="https://climate-events.nytimes.com/a-new-climate/events/san-francisco" target="_blank">A New Climate</a>” on climate change.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Bio</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">: Alyssa Collins an
<a href="https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/collins_alyssa.php" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina</span></a>. She also served as the inaugural
<a href="https://huntington.org/verso/2022/02/interview-octavia-e-butler-fellow-alyssa-collins" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Huntington Library Octavia E. Butler Fellow from 2021-2022</span></a>. Her research focuses on black life, humanity, and technology as represented in the presents and futures of black speculative fiction. Currently, she is working
on her first book, <i>Cellular Blackness: Black Feminist Posthuman Ontologies</i>, an investigation of moments of black female embodiment, human evolution and symbiosis, and black posthumanity as established and represented in the work of Octavia E. Butler,
Nnedi Okorafor, and other contemporary black science fiction writers. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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