Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 12:40 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Memorial Union Building Theater II
Banu Subramaniam
Luella LaMer Professor of Women's and Gender Studies,
Wellesley College
Plant worlds are deeply entangled in human worlds. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship in feminist, postcolonial and indigenous studies, Banu Subramaniam reflects 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. 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.
New Hampshire International Seminar (NHIS) - Spring 2025
