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

[Jalondra Davis Brown]

Thank you andré for the announcement! This lands on Thursday when my Public
Humanities course meets so I am planning to bring my students on the bus
and work the talks into our content.

It might be helpful if English Department faculty could consider excusing
students for that day so at least those who have other English Department
classes could attend.

Best,

Jalondra A. Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
www.jalondradavis.com
Pronouns: She/her/hers

Recent Publications:

"Crossing Merfolk, The Human, and the Anthropocene in Nalo Hopkinson's *The
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“Crossing Merfolk Narratives of the Sacred: Nalo Hopkinson’s *The New
Moon’s Arms* and Gabrielle Tesfaye’s *The Water Will Carry Us Home*,”
<https://shimajournal.org/anthologies/mercultures.php>


“Hidden Stars: A Roundtable with Independent Black SF Writers and
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM andré carrington <andre.carrington at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> 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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>
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>
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