In 2025, with emerging AI, FaceTime, and robot companions, we acknowledge that the future has arrived and still remains to be explored. We invite scholars, artists, and critical theorists to contribute to our annual conference celebrating Afrofuturism and the work of Gregory J. Hampton. Hampton explored how Black writers engage with identity, power, and possibility. His work has significantly shaped modern views of Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and African American literary studies. Hampton's critical analyses of authors like Octavia Butler and Samuel R.