Laura Foster
@DrLauraAFoster
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Associate Professor Gender Studies, Law, and African Studies | Co-lead Editor @catalyst_sts | gender, race, indigeneity, plants, IP, law, AI, South Africa
Indiana University - Bloomington
Joined May 2013
Looking forward to sharing my work, and learning from an incredible group of researchers @PLAASuwc. #algorithmicplantjustice @GenderStudiesIU @AfricanIP.
Happening tomorrow: . Join PLAAS and @DrLauraAFoster for the academic seminar: "Algorithmic Plant Justice: Vegetal Beings, Gendered Relations, and the Governing of Precision Agriculture.". Date: 9 May 2023.Time: 13:00 SAST. Register here:
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Looking forward to sharing insights from my latest book project on #AlgorithmicPlantJustice with @FilmandMediaUCT. I learn so much from this group of colleagues and students!.
As AI becomes increasingly embedded into our daily lives, it's imperative that we unravel its hidden biases. Join our seminar with Laura Foster this Tuesday to dive into the cutting-edge field of AI research and its implications for the African context.
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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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Check out the new @catalyst_sts issue! Thanks to my incredible colleagues for editing and producing another thought provoking issue. Sandra Carpenter, Janelle Li, Pam Perrimon, Cristina Visperas, Ren Zheng, @NassimParvin @bahngerama @adi_anupam.
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2023 issue w/ a Special Section on “Domestication of War,” edited by Diana Pardo Pedraza, Xan Chacko, Jennifer Terry, and Astrida Neimanis. 1/3. #STS #feministSTS
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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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Thanks to everyone who made the 4S pre-conference writing workshop a wonderful success! #ESOCITE4S22 @4sWeb @catalyst_sts @TapuyaLASTS @Soc_Stud_Sci @STHV_journal @EastsJournal @eSTSjournal
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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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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 but also check Indigenous peoples' research ethics guidelines.
hhs.gov
The International Compilation of Human Research Standards is a listing of the laws, regulations, and guidelines that govern human subjects research in many countries around the world. Disclaimer:...
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Looking forward to this conversation with @FilmandMediaUCT !.
This is our lunchtime #UCT CFMS seminar for Tuesday 26 April at 12:30 PM (lecture starts 1 PM). Prof. Laura Foster will be speaking on a botanical approach to artificial intelligence. Snacks will be served. AC Jordan 4B.
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The Spring 2022 issue of @catalyst_sts is out! I am proud to work with such an amazing editorial team of Anne Pollock, @NassimParvin @Lauren_Savit and @adi_anupam #feministSTS #STS @GenderStudiesIU.
We are pleased to announce our Spring 2022 issue w/ a Special Section on Global Fertility Chains & the Colonial Present of Assistant Reproductive Technologies, guest-edited by Sigrid Vertommen, @ParryBronwyn, & @MichalNahman. 01/04. . #STS #feministSTS
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I am honored to be part of @catalyst_sts and excited for this fantastic Fall 2021 issue! Thanks to all the contributors, and my amazing editorial collective team @NassimParvin, Anne Pollock, @adi_anupam, @Lauren_Savit, and @mp_pfeifer! #feministSTS @GenderStudiesIU.
We are pleased to announce the publication of our Fall 2021 issue with a Special Section on Probing the System, guest-edited by Paula Gardner and Sarah Kember. Our evocatively beautiful cover is by Shu Lea Cheang. 1/4 #STS #feministSTS .
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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 joining this innovative STS journal, and thankful to all those past and present who have worked so tirelessly to promote @catalyst_sts.
We are pleased to have @DrLauraAFoster joining our lead editorial team alongside Anne Pollock and @NassimParvin! A big thank you to our outgoing co-lead editor & founding member of the editorial board @deboleena_roy for her incredible contributions to Catalyst from 2018–2021. 2/4.
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Excited to be in conversation with this fabulous group!.
Coming up in a few hours: How to publish your article in an interdisciplinary journal, hosted by @STSfutures, with editors from @catalyst_sts, @hssonline's Isis, @4sWeb's EST&S, and @HistHum. Can't make it but have questions? Feel free to DM!.
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Today at noon CST - Join me for a conversation on Hoodia plants, succulent sex, and patent law @TTUWGS @GenderStudiesIU @IUCLSC @AfricanIP @raceip
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Excited to be part of this incredible editorial team, and this amazing anniversary celebration! @catalyst_sts #feministSTS #catalyst5th @GenderStudiesIU.
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How might succulent sex provide insights for feminist technoscience and law?
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Join us in celebrating @catalyst_sts and #feministSTS! @AfricanIP @Afrinnovation @GenderStudiesIU @IUCLSC.
Catalyst turns 5! Join us on 4/22 for a celebratory event on the Foundations & Futures of Feminist Technosciences. Ft., Donna Haraway & Banu Subramaniam on Foundations;@moyazb @MaxLiboiron @tpbustos & @thao_pow on Futures;& Crip Feminist Dance Party by @KGotkin & @AimiHamraie!
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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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