WGS is proud to announce that Dr. Banu Subramaniam, a leader in the field of Feminist Science and Technology Studies, has been selected by the Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture Committee to give this year’s Simpson lecture. Dr. Subramaniam’s work focuses on the interconnected histories of botany, zoology, colonialism, race, nationalism, and xenophobia.

The Geddes Wilson S. Lecture honors Dr. Geddes Wilson Simpson a distinguished professor in the College of Life Sciences and the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, who worked for the University of Maine for 55 years, starting in 1931.

Please save Thursday, October 14, at 1 PM for this in-person, on campus lecture.  We hope you will encourage your colleagues and your students to attend the event as well.  If you are teaching a class in Fall 2021 whose students might find Dr. Subramaniam’s research and lecture of interest, please let us know and we will make sure you and your students are provided details of Dr. Subramaniam’s talk and visit.