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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Plant Sciences, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We are delighted to announce
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">the<span style="color:black"> return of our popular / casual seminar series, “<b>Herbarium Lunch</b>”. We have a full slate of interesting talks this Fall, which can be previewed
</span></span><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. Talks will be in the main room of the Herbarium</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">,
Herring Hall<span style="color:black">, <b>12 noon, </b>on<b> Thursdays. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">For questions about the seminars or the UA Herbarium, in Herring Hall (nestled between Marley and Forbes), please contact us at
</span><a href="mailto:herbarium@cals.arizona.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">herbarium@cals.arizona.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Shelley McMahon</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Note: masks are optional but recommended; we will have a filter running and will likely open the doors.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">September 29<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Vegetal Eroticism: Plants between Science and Fiction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This event is taking place in the context of the exhibit </span><a href="https://plants.arizona.edu/eden-exhibit/" target="_blank" title="https://plants.arizona.edu/eden-exhibit/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Eden? Plants between Science and Fiction</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">.
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Joela Jacobs is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona and the founder of the </span><a href="https://plants.arizona.edu" target="_blank" title="https://plants.arizona.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Literary and Cultural Plant
Studies Network</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Shelley McMahon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Associate Professor of Practice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Associate Director, Academic Programs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">UA Herbarium</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Desert Legume Program</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">School of Plant Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#AA0620">University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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