BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news333@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240223T170858 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240313T161500 SUMMARY:On Parts and Wholes. Plant Agency in Ugandan Genomic Research DESCRIPTION:Uganda is likely the country with the highest per capita consum ption of bananas in the world. It has also become a global center of incre asingly high-tech banana research. Many Ugandans take pride in their relat ionship to bananas\, plants that there are the epitome of fertility and gr owth. There is a rich tradition of thinking and living in relation to bana na plants in Uganda. Many iconic accounts and representations however focu s on whole plants and their fruit. Building on recent fieldwork in Uganda and Australia with a project developing genetically modified bananas\, thi s lecture discusses how plant agency becomes visible during lab work\, whe n Ugandan biologists are dealing with partitioned plants\, that is\, molec ular plant extracts. I draw attention to mundane lab routines and how biol ogists make sense of the vegetal at the molecular level. Biologists think of reproductive and other largely inscrutable vegetal capacities in genomi c research as being collective and distributed across a variety. Thinking alongside the propositions of these biologists\, the lecture explores if a nd how conceiving ofvegetal agency in such non-individuated ways allows en visioning forms of participation in collective life that decenter North At lantic emphases on heterosexual reproduction\, autonomy/individuality and all too rigid distinctions between life and death. X-ALT-DESC:

Uganda is likely the country with the highest per capita cons umption of bananas in the world. It has also become a global center of inc reasingly high-tech banana research. Many Ugandans take pride in their rel ationship to bananas\, plants that there are the epitome of fertility and growth. There is a rich tradition of thinking and living in relation to ba nana plants in Uganda. Many iconic accounts and representations however fo cus on whole plants and their fruit. Building on recent fieldwork in Ugand a and Australia with a project developing genetically modified bananas\, t his lecture discusses how plant agency becomes visible during lab work\, w hen Ugandan biologists are dealing with partitioned plants\, that is\, mol ecular plant extracts. I draw attention to mundane lab routines and how bi ologists make sense of the vegetal at the molecular level. Biologists thin k of reproductive and other largely inscrutable vegetal capacities in geno mic research as being collective and distributed across a variety. Thinkin g alongside the propositions of these biologists\, the lecture explores if and how conceiving ofvegetal agency in such non-individuated ways allows envisioning forms of participation in collective life that decenter North Atlantic emphases on heterosexual reproduction\, autonomy/individuality an d all too rigid distinctions between life and death.

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