A Beginner’s Guide to Worldmaking

Schedule

Wed Mar 25 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1515 University Ave | Charlottesville, VA

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2026 Women’s History Month Keynote, WGS Reads & Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lecture
About this Event

Join us for dinner and a conversation inspired by Octavia Butler with Susana M. Morris and Chanel Craft Tanner.

Free copies of Positive Obsession: The Live and Times of Octavia E. Butler, by Susana M. Morris are available now. Pick one up in advance of the event from:

  • Women's Center - Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
  • Levering Hall (Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, East Range) - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 9am-5pm
  • remaining copies will be available at the event

Courtesy of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, the Department of
Women, Gender & Sexuality, and The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences


Find more UVA Women's History Month events at womenshistory.virginia.edu/events

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Susana M. Morris is a Black feminist Afrofuturist writer, Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, and Crunk Feminist Collective co-founder.

Chanel Craft Tanner is the Director of the Women’s Center at UVA, and Crunk Feminist Collective member.

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1515 University Ave, 1515 University Avenue, Charlottesville, United States

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