<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear English majors, <div><br></div><div>See below for an exciting event this Friday via Zoom; advance registration is required.</div><div><br></div><div>Info below!</div><div><br></div><div>jt</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carla Mazzio via Englishfaculty <englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Englishfaculty] This Friday!: Sami Schalk & Shelley Streeby on "Octavia Butler Today: Disability Justice, Environmental Justice, and the Arts of Thinking Ahead" (please pre-register for this virtual event)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 21, 2025 at 2:31:10 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English Faculty <englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu>, "gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu Grad List" <gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carla Mazzio <carlam@ucr.edu><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear English Department colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">A gentle reminder about an exciting virtual event this Friday (4/25) at noon: short talks by Sami Schalk and Shelley Streeby followed by a response and conversation moderated by andré carrington. For full details, see below (or if you are reading this from a phone, <a href="https://hhdj.ucr.edu/news-events">https://hhdj.ucr.edu/news-events</a>), and to <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/zwqf_wNSSk2OlNIJAKTPHA">register in advance please click here</a>. </div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;outline:none"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span 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style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none">Friday, April 25th, noon-1:30 PM (virtual): </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none">Apocalyptic Entanglements 2.0, "Octavia Butler Today: Disability Justice, Environmental Justice, and the Arts of Thinking Ahead," featuring </span><a href="https://samischalk.com/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none">Sami Schalk </span></span></a></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"> (Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of </span><em 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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://shelleystreeby.com/about" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none">Shelley Streeby</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span 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style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none">Imaging the</i> <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none">Future of Climate Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism</i><span class="gmail_default" style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;font-style:italic">,</span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"> <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none"></i>and the forthcoming <em style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none">Speculative Feminist Ecologies: World-Making and the Archive in Science Fiction)<b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none"> </b></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span 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href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770209/the-black-fantastic-by-andre-m-carrington-editor/">The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories</a>)</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. <span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span 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Society, and organized andré carrington and Carla Mazzio </i><span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none">(English)</span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none">. </i></span></span></span><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/zwqf_wNSSk2OlNIJAKTPHA" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none">To register in advance, please click here</strong></span></a><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none">.</b></font></font></li></ul><font face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font><ul style="color:rgb(69,90,100);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;outline:none"><li class="gmail-callout-brand-gold" 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style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;color:rgb(0,61,165)"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none">SAMI SCHALK, "Learning from Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction, Disability Justice and 'Predicting' the Future."</strong></span><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"> Description: </font><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none">Understanding Octavia Butler as a disabled Black woman writer who used research and lived experience to write prescient work, this talk will explore how we can learn from Butler’s writing process in addition to her fiction itself. As an illustrative example, this talk will also provide an overview of a course on visionary and speculative fiction which requires students to do their own research-based predictions for fictional futures.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </font></div></li><li class="gmail-callout-brand-gold" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none"><div class="gmail-callout-brand-gold" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 1.5rem; outline: currentcolor; background-color: rgb(255, 184, 28);"><font face="georgia, serif"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;color:rgb(0,61,165)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;line-height:1.6"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none;line-height:1.6"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><font style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none">SHELLEY STREEBY, "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Octavia E. Butler’s Ecological and Environmental Worldmaking: Dune, Disaster, Bag." </span></strong> D<span style="box-sizing:inherit;outline:none">rawing on Butler’s papers at the Huntington Library, I situate struggles over environments and ecologies as central to Butler’s memory-work and worldmaking throughout her life. The word environment had multiple meanings for Butler, including the worldmaking involved in creating science fiction and fantasy’s secondary worlds; the earthly environments that formed and inspired her; learning environments such as libraries, schools, and workshops; environmental racism and environmental movements; and environmental and ecological speculation on respecting relations and responsibilities to the more-than-human world as opposed to short-term thinking and policy-making intensifying extraction and environmental destruction. I reconsider three environmental and ecological keywords in the light of Butler’s memory-work and speculation: "Dune," "Disaster," and "Bag." </span></font></div></li></ul><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="1"><i>This is the second in a series entitled "Apocalyptic Entanglements" designed to address pressing and intersecting issues of academic study and social justice in the wake of the LA fires (organized by UCR faculty Dylan Rodriguez, Fariba Zarinebaf, and Carla Mazzio) . </i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">We hope to see many of you there! </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">andré and Carla</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"></font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/carlam" target="_blank">Carla Mazzio</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Associate Professor, Department of English</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Co-Director,<a href="https://english.ucr.edu/mhhs" style="" target="_blank"> Medical and Health Humanities Minor </a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Co-Director, <a href="https://hhdj.ucr.edu/" style="" target="_blank">Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Lab </a></font></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">University of California, Riverside </font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><span></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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