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** NEW DATE: Thursday, March 13, 2025 @ 5:30 PM **

Plants worlds are deeply entangled in human worlds. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship in feminist, postcolonial and indigenous studies, Professor Banu Subramaniam, a renowned plant evolutionary biologist and scholar in feminist science studies and environmental humanities, will reflect on how gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation shape the foundational language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences, and how botanical theories remain grounded in the violence of their colonial pasts. Professor Subramaniam wrestles with these difficult origins and lays a roadmap to imagine new biological frameworks that harness the power of feminist thought to reimagine and reinvigorate our love of plants.