[Sfts-faculty] This Friday!: Sami Schalk & Shelley Streeby on "Octavia Butler Today: Disability Justice, Environmental Justice, and the Arts of Thinking Ahead"

[andré carrington]

Greetings, everyone. Register for this online event Friday!

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,
https://hhdj.ucr.edu/news-events), and to register in advance please click
here <https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/zwqf_wNSSk2OlNIJAKTPHA>.


   - *Friday, April 25th,  noon-1:30 PM (virtual): **Apocalyptic
   Entanglements 2.0, "Octavia Butler Today: Disability Justice, Environmental
   Justice, and the Arts of Thinking Ahead," featuring  Sami Schalk
   <https://samischalk.com/>* (Professor of Gender and Women's Studies,
   University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of *Black Disability
   Politics <https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-disability-politics>
*and* Bodyminds
   Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative
   Fiction <https://www.dukeupress.edu/bodyminds-reimagined>)* and *Shelley
   Streeby* <https://shelleystreeby.com/about> (Professor of Ethnic Studies
   and Literature, UCSD and author of *Imaging the* *Future of Climate
   Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism*,
   <https://www.ucpress.edu/books/imagining-the-future-of-climate-change/paper>
    and the forthcoming *Speculative Feminist Ecologies: World-Making and
   the Archive in Science Fiction) **with moderator and respondent* *andré
   carrington <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/andrc>**
(*Department of
   English, UCR and author of *Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in
   Science Fiction *
   <https://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Blackness-Andr%C3%A9-Carrington/dp/0816678960>and
   Editor of *The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories
   <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770209/the-black-fantastic-by-andre-m-carrington-editor/>)*
   . * This event is co-sponsored by the Health Humanities and Disability
   Justice Lab, Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science, the Department
   of English, and the **Center for Ideas and Society, and organized
   andré carrington and Carla Mazzio *(English)*. **To register in advance,
   please click here*
   <https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/zwqf_wNSSk2OlNIJAKTPHA>*.*



   - *SAMI SCHALK, "Learning from Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction,
   Disability Justice and 'Predicting' the Future."*  Description:
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.
   - *SHELLEY STREEBY, "Octavia E. Butler’s Ecological and Environmental
   Worldmaking: Dune, Disaster, Bag." * Drawing  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."


*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) . *

We hope to see many of you there!

andré and Carla

Carla Mazzio <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/carlam>
Associate Professor, Department of English
Co-Director, Medical and Health Humanities Minor
<https://english.ucr.edu/mhhs>
Co-Director, Health Humanities and Disability Justice (HHDJ) Lab
<https://hhdj.ucr.edu/>
University of California, Riverside

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