<div dir="auto">Colleagues,<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto">Thanks for your support, and please, share the good news.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">andré </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Catherine Wehrey-Miller</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cwehrey@huntington.org">cwehrey@huntington.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 11:35 AM<br>Subject: Upcoming Conference - Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler<br>To: Catherine Wehrey-Miller <<a href="mailto:cwehrey@huntington.org">cwehrey@huntington.org</a>><br></div><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">I am pleased to share information regarding the Huntington Research Division’s upcoming conference
<b>“Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia. E. Butler.”<u></u><u></u></b></span></p>
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<p class="m_3816731347320442894gmail-msonormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The year 2024 marks the beginning of the critical dystopian future Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) envisioned in her groundbreaking novel,
<i>Parable of the Sower</i>. 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://huntington.org/event/futurity-praxis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler | The Huntington</a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="m_3816731347320442894gmail-msonormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Let me know if you have any questions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Catherine<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Catherine Wehrey-Miller</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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