Walidah will be presenting and participating in the Octavia Butler conference in San Diegoe June 3-5.
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2 Fl Price Center East, La Jolla, California 92093
Join us in a celebration of Octavia E Butler’s life and work for the “Shaping Change: Remembering Octavia E. Butler Through Archives, Art, and Worldmakiing” from June 3-5, 2016 at UCSD.
Featuring talks by:
- Adrienne Maree Brown
- Aimee Bahng
- Alexis Lothian
- M. Asli Dukan
- Ayana Jamieson
- Krista Franklin
- Lisa Bolekaja
- Melanie West
- Moya Bailey
- Nisi Shawl
- Ola Ronke
- Rasheedah Phillips
- Shelley Streeby
- Sophia Echavarria
- Ted Chaing
- Walidah Imarisha
This event is sponsored by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination;The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop at UCSD; The Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network; UCSD's Culture Art & Technology/Sixth College
Social Sciences; Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion;
Deptartments of Theater and Dance, Ethnic Studies, Literature, Humanites, and Critical Gender Studies