The College of Arts & Letters and the Gender and Cultural Studies Program Of Stevens Institute of Technology

Invites you to a talk by Luis Campos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, Drew University

“Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant (And Those Who Studied It)”

The 1930s discovery that sexual reproduction in the evening primrose depended on chromosomes linking up in rings rather than pairing up two by two led to claims of having discovered a "degenerate," "subsexual," and even "queer" plant. Such loaded terms, however, might well have also applied to some of the men studying the plant and who used it to defend the validity of a larger "mutation theory" of evolution, in which such mutants were crucial. Drawing on both laboratory notebooks and personal diaries, this talk will explore the possibility of using sexuality as an analytical lens in the history of science on

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
4:00PM – 5:30PM
Burchard 118

Refreshments will be provided
Admission is Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact:

Dr. Dawn Digrius
Assistant Professor, History
Morton
Room 328
Phone: 201.216.5373
Fax: 201.216.8245
ddigrius@stevens.edu