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Laura Foster

@drlauraafoster

Associate Professor Gender Studies, Law, and African Studies | Co-lead Editor @catalyst_sts | gender, race, indigeneity, plants, IP, law, AI, South Africa

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Attention to plants queers the law by demonstrating how the complex liveliness of the vegetal interrupts contractual benefit sharing, thus troubling the liberal legal (human) subject. If corporations as legal persons can enter into contracts, why not plants?

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Presented this morning on human exceptionalism in the law and the need for a critical #vegetalfeminisms. Thanks to the attendees and my panelists Xan Chacko, Banu Subramaniam, and Sushmita Chatterjee for an engaging conversation on human-vegetal flows of energy! #slsa21

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I am honored to be part of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and excited for this fantastic Fall 2021 issue! Thanks to all the contributors, and my amazing editorial collective team Nassim Parvin, PhD, Anne Pollock, Aditya Anupam, @Lauren_Savit, and @mp_pfeifer! #feministSTS Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University

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Transnational research via electronic platforms (e.g. zoom) means researchers must consult ethics requirements in each country participants are located. The HHS has a list of country guidelines bit.ly/3NpNrtU but also check Indigenous peoples' research ethics guidelines.

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Presented my work for the STS seminar series at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México today! Thank you for a thought-provoking conversation to shape my new research – a feminist, decolonial, vegetal, technoscience approach to law and AI-based smart farming in South Africa.

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Honored to be on this panel in a packed room for a fascinating discussion on Decolonizing the Governance of Technoscience with Anne Pollock, Xan Sarah Chacko, Sonja van Wichelen, Cori Hayden, and Warwick Anderson! #ESOCITE4S22

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Check out the new Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience issue! Thanks to my incredible colleagues for editing and producing another thought provoking issue. Sandra Carpenter, Janelle Li, Pam Perrimon, Cristina Visperas, Ren Zheng, Nassim Parvin, PhD Aimee Bahng Aditya Anupam

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Current book project #algorithmicplantjustice. How to grow an ethical AI that addresses justice for plants and people simultaneously? How to model a decolonial approach to AI with care and responsibility for more-than-human worlds? Find a story on plants and AI, send it my way!

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Looking forward to sharing insights from my latest book project on #AlgorithmicPlantJustice with Film and Media (UCT). I learn so much from this group of colleagues and students!