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.

Inspired by the award-winning speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), leading experts in the field will explore the expansive ways Butler’s writing, research, and life foster deeper understanding of the past, present, and possible futures. The conference was held at The Huntington June 23, 2017.