Name: Parallels from the Parables: Lessons from Octavia E. Butler for Today--a Teach-In
Start: 2024-09-25T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030

Parallels from the Parables: Lessons from Octavia E. Butler for Today--a Teach-In

This event takes place in person at Charis and on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Click here to register to attend virtually. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event.
Charis welcomes Dr. Susana Morris for a teach-in on the prophetic wisdom of Octavia Butler. Dr. Susana Morris is the former Charis Circle board chair, an Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the author of the forthcoming biography of Octavia Butler: Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler.
Together she will help us explore why so many people have found comfort in Butler's visions of the future and of other worlds even when they are not idyllic. Now that we are living in the very time of Parable of the Sower, what can we learn from the protagonist, Lauren Olamina's, journey to a world beyond Earth? What does it mean to "take root among the stars," and what did Butler have planned for her third book in the series which was not finished at the time of her death?
Dr. Morris will answer your questions and catch you up on your Butler knowledge so you can be in the know as we look forward to our 'Take Root Among the Stars" themed birthday celebration on Saturday, November 2nd!
For more details about our celebration visit: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/charis-turns-50
Susana Morris is Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has been an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University and was most recently the Norman Freeling Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature (UVA 2014), co-editor, with Brittney C. Cooper and Robin M. Boylorn, of The Crunk Feminist Collection (Feminist Press 2017), and co-author, with Brittney C. Cooper and Chanel Craft Tanner, of the young adult handbook, Feminist AF: The Guide to Crushing Girlhood (Norton 2021). She is the co-founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective and has written for Gawker, Long Reads, Cosmopolitan.com and Ebony.com, and has also been featured on NPR, the BBC, Essence magazine, and the New York Times. She is currently at work on a cultural biography of Octavia Butler, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler.
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