[Sfts-students] Upcoming events CFPs & opportunities

[andré carrington]

Greetings, everyone. There are numerous events and opportunities coming up
that will interest you, so I've prepared this announcement with information
about each of them.

On May 23 & 24, the Huntington Library in Pasadena is hosting Futurity as
Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler
<https://huntington.org/event/futurity-praxis>, a two-day conference
reflecting on the iconic and influential author whose papers are archived
at the Huntington. Register here
<https://tickets.huntington.org/events/018df7c4-3587-fa3b-fedc-d18d4c5eeddc>
(free for all students) and if you're coming from Riverside, you may sign
up here to take advantage of free bus transportation
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQW8OO-q39Nw1-sW6J7_nGUh5A3VY5sSvcKfGkaU7QnYgsZA/viewform?usp=sf_link>
from UCR’s campus and back on both days of the conference.

On May 25, graduate students at UCR will hold a one-day symposium
revisiting and reinitiating the Eaton Conference on speculative fiction
research! Organizers welcome paper submissions from undergraduates and
graduate students
<https://ucr-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Fsuzl5WctgaVAIx7qJ6tKxKqqv65deuzgq9TMh_fDdSkSLOfjQGcj0_Wkj6dBG7s8IKMQuIHPdroEYAhggnu2Q_8KDhl-p6JmrHe-Gf8881uJf9PploCuVo2UPeJ5SU9-2hfT7hS66iu98mG0IWocSC2C4jWvN57unQN05euP5tZoLRL74sIAzjH8OBSeSxd>
by April 10. Stay tuned for more, as your peers have recently won a Center
for Ideas & Society conference award to stage a new speculative fiction
research conference next Spring!

The Speculative Fiction Across Media Conference <https://sfamla.org/> in
Los Angeles will take place in October 2024. See the CFP and submit a
proposal by May 1. SFAM is located in Southern California and sponsored by
UC Riverside, Cal State LA, and the University of Zurich.

The annual (Theodore) Sturgeon Symposium
<https://sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-symposium> at Kansas University's Gunn
Center for Science Fiction will take place in October 2024. The theme is
“Stars in Our Pockets: Celebrating Samuel R. Delany.” Submit a proposal here
<https://sfcenter.ku.edu/2024-sturgeon-symposium>.

If you haven’t joined already, you can also keep up with Speculative
Fictions & Cultures of Science happenings on Discord
<https://discord.com/channels/1094025322304901250/>. Email andrc at ucr.edu
for an invite code to join the channel.



-- 
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Director, Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science
<https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report>
--
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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