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

[Andrea Denny-Brown]

Awesome, thank you so much!

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM Sherryl Vint <sherrylv at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Dear Andrea,
>
> There will be a bus both days. Here is the link to sign up for the bus:
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQW8OO-q39Nw1-sW6J7_nGUh5A3VY5sSvcKfGkaU7QnYgsZA/viewform?usp=sf_link
>
> best,
> Sherryl
>
> Sherryl Vint (she/her)
> Professor and Chair, Department of English
>
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> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 10:14, Andrea Denny-Brown <andreadb at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi andré, will there be a bus on both days or just one? I have students
>> who will definitely want to go!
>> Thanks,
>> Andrea
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2024, at 4:02 PM, Jalondra Davis Brown <
>> jalondra.a.davisbrown at ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> 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
>> New Moon's Arms* and Rivers Solomon's *The Deep*"
>> <https://www.fantastic-arts.org/jfa/current-issue/>
>>
>>
>> “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
>> Publishers,”
>> <https://sfrareview.org/2021/10/25/hidden-stars-a-conversation-on-black-indie-speculative-fiction/>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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*
>>>
>>> [image: HTG_logo_hz_la]
>>>
>>> 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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