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Title: Decolonizing Botany

Speaker: Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

What does it mean to be a feminist botanist?  Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship, I show how gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation shape the foundational language, terminology, and theories of modern botany, and how botany remains grounded in the violence of its colonial pasts. Decolonizing Botany reckons with these difficult origins and lays a roadmap to imagine a new feminist botany that harnesses the power of feminist thought to reimagine the practices of experimental biology

https://www.umass.edu/wgss/member/banu-subramaniam

This is a remote event. If you are interested in joining, please contact plantbiology@northwestern.edu for a link