Past eventThu., May 23, 2024, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.–Fri., May 24, 2024, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Two-day conference | General: $25 (Students free) | Optional lunch: $20 (each day) Conference registration includes free entrance to the grounds and galleries. Advanced lunch orders end May 14 at 5 p.m.
Education and Visitor Center, Rothenberg Hall
Damian Duffy
Author of the graphic novel adaptations of Kindred and Parable of the Sower
Steven Barnes
Author of The Eightfold Path, Marvel’s Black Panther: Sins of the King podcast series, and Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror on Shudder
Sheree Renée Thomas
Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the Dark Matter anthologies, poet, author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future
Noon | Lunch
1:30 p.m. | Session 2: The Books of the Living: Collection Researchers
Moderator: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi
Historian, digital humanist, author of Imagine Lagos, Department of History at UC Riverside
Ayana Jamieson
Educator, mythologist, depth psychologist, founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network
Alyssa Collins
University of South Carolina professor, 2021–22 Octavia E. Butler Fellow at The Huntington
Lois Rosson
Historian, Berggruen Institute Fellow, 2023–24 Octavia E. Butler Fellow at The Huntington
9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee
10 a.m. | Session 3: Mind of My Mind: Scholarship & Pedagogy
Moderator: Jasmin Young
Co-editor of Black Power Encyclopedia; Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside; Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard
Gerry Canavan
Author of Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), Department of English at Marquette University
Ashanté Reese
Anthropologist, author of Black Food Geographies, Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Marisa Parham
Director of the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities Initiative; Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland
Valorie Thomas
Author, consultant, coach, Phebe Estelle Spalding professor emerita at Pomona College
Noon | Lunch
1:30 p.m. | Session 4: Earthseed: Sustainability & Activism
4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks
Parking Is free. There are two entrances to the parking lot: Oxford Road and Allen Avenue. Handicap parking and bicycle racks are conveniently located in the south end of the lot closest to the main entrance and admission windows.
Heading to registration. You’ll check in with Security and then proceed to Rothenberg Auditorium for check-in at the registration table. Signage will direct you.
Attendee badges. We will provide you with two stick-on name badges, one for each day of the conference. Your badge grants you access to the Huntington grounds and galleries during normal business hours.
Continental breakfast. A complimentary continental breakfast is available during registration at 9 a.m. on Thursday and 9:30 a.m. on Friday. If you did not pre-purchase lunch, you can visit 1919 Cafe or Red Car coffee shop.
