[Sfts-faculty] Fwd: Upcoming Conference - Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler

[andré carrington]

Colleagues,

See the message below marking the official announcement of the conference
on Octavia E. Butler that I've been planning at the Huntington Library, at
the end of May. Students can attend for free, and we'll be working in the
coming weeks on arranging a bus for students from UCR to Pasadena for the
event.
Thanks for your support, and please, share the good news.

Regards,
andré

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From: Catherine Wehrey-Miller <cwehrey at huntington.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 11:35 AM
Subject: Upcoming Conference - Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E.
Butler
To: Catherine Wehrey-Miller <cwehrey at huntington.org>


Hello everyone,



I am pleased to share information regarding the Huntington Research
Division’s upcoming conference *“Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia.
E. Butler.”*



The year 2024 marks the beginning of the critical dystopian future Octavia
E. Butler (1947-2006) envisioned in her groundbreaking novel, *Parable of
the Sower*. Her fiction and the story of her life compel us to reckon with
power, leadership, creativity, the Earth, human relationships, and the
unknown possibilities that await us in the stars. Now, intellectuals from
different communities gather to contemplate her legacy. This conference
asks how we have learned from Butler’s writing and what her archive at the
Huntington—a short distance from where the author spent her formative years
in Pasadena, California—can help future generations discover.



Tickets can be obtained at Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E.
Butler | The Huntington <https://huntington.org/event/futurity-praxis>



Huntington staff, students, and Huntington research fellows can attend for
free.



Let me know if you have any questions.



Best wishes,

Catherine



*Catherine Wehrey-Miller*

*Executive Assistant to the Director of Research*

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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108

626-405-2194

She/her/hers



*The Huntington exists on the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva and
Kizh Nation peoples who continue to call this region home. The Huntington
respectfully acknowledges these Indigenous peoples as the traditional
caretakers of this landscape, as the direct descendants of the first
people. The Huntington recognizes their continued presence and is grateful
to have the opportunity to work and learn on this land.*
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