Shelley Streeby from University of California, San Diego, delivers a talk titled “Climate Refugees in the Greenhouse World: Archiving Global Warming/Imagining the Future of Climate Change with Octavia E. Butler” This talk was included in the session titled “Beyond Octavia E. Butler’s Parables.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Jenny Terry from Durham University delivers a talk titled “Time Bombs, Time Lapse, and Time Capsules in the Fiction of Octavia Butler and the Art of Ellen Gallagher.” This talk was included in the session titled “Fictive Kindred / Seeding the Pattern.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Aimee Bahng from Pomona College delivers a talk titled “Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons.” This talk was included in the session titled “Fictive Kindred / Seeding the Pattern.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Gerry Canavan from Marquette University delivers a talk titled “Parables of the Trickster.” This talk was included in the session titled “Beyond Octavia E. Butler’s Parables.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Sami Schalk from University of Wisconsin, Madison, delivers a talk titled “Experience, Research, and Writing: Octavia E. Butler as Author of Disability Literature.” This talk was included in the session titled “Fictive Kindred / Seeding the Pattern.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Ayana Jamieson from the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and SUNY Empire State College delivers remarks for “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Sami Schalk, Jenny Terry, Aimee Bahng, Cassandra L. Jones, Gerry Canavan, and Shelley Streeby participate in a rountable discussion with facilitators Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey. Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Cassandra L. Jones from University of South Carolina Upstate delivers a talk titled “Memory, Resistance, and Liberation: Anyanwu as ‘Lieu de Mémoire’ in Octavia E. Butler’s Patternist Series.” This talk was included in the session titled “Beyond Octavia E. Butler’s Parables.” Part of “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.

Sue Hodson from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Octavia E. Butler Studies: Convergence of an Expanding Field,” a conference held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.