[Plantsci] Herbarium Lunch - Thursday 9/29 12:00pm

[Garcia, Jennifer Jene - (jennyj)]

Dear Plant Sciences,

We are delighted to announce the return of our popular / casual seminar series, "Herbarium Lunch". We have a full slate of interesting talks this Fall, which can be previewed here<https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks>. Talks will be in the main room of the Herbarium, Herring Hall, 12 noon, on Thursdays.

We are starting the series off with an interdisciplinary topic, as you will see below! Please join us in welcoming Dr. Joela Jacobs from German Studies, and we encourage you to visit the associated upcoming exhibits in the Poetry Center and Tree Ring Lab (details in the link, below).

For questions about the seminars or the UA Herbarium, in Herring Hall (nestled between Marley and Forbes), please contact us at herbarium at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:herbarium at cals.arizona.edu>

Best regards,
Shelley McMahon

(Note: masks are optional but recommended; we will have a filter running and will likely open the doors.)

September 29
Vegetal Eroticism: Plants between Science and Fiction

The discovery of the many ways in which plants can reproduce caused a series of moral scandals in the eighteenth century and again at the turn to the twentieth. There was concern that people would get ideas about their own sexuality from plants, so botany became a scandalous pursuit for women and was censored from school curricula. These worries about vegetal eroticism were satirized in humorous literary texts that mock the seductive danger of plants. Follow me on a little trip through the scandalous world of plants between science and fiction!

This event is taking place in the context of the exhibit Eden? Plants between Science and Fiction<https://plants.arizona.edu/eden-exhibit/>.

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Joela Jacobs is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona and the founder of the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network<https://plants.arizona.edu>. Her research focuses on the intersections of 19th-21st century German literature and film with animal and plant studies, environmental humanities, Jewish studies, and the histories of sexuality and science. She is currently completing a book about more-than-human characters in grotesque fiction from Oskar Panizza to Franz Kafka.



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Shelley McMahon
Associate Professor of Practice
Associate Director, Academic Programs
Director, UA Herbarium<https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/>
Director, Desert Legume Program<https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/>
School of Plant Sciences<https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home>
University of Arizona
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