Dr. Banu Subramaniam of UMass Amherst will present a talk about her work: Decolonizing Botany. Abstract: 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 field that harnesses the power of indigenous and feminist thought to re-imagine the practices of experimental biology. To learn more about Dr. Subramaniam’s work, visit