Friday, April 25, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm, reception to follow
Location TBD
Join the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) on Friday, April 25th, in celebration of S&J affiliate Kat Gutierrez’s forthcoming book Unmaking Botany.
Kat Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz and is interested broadly in the politics of botanical life and plant worldmaking in modern histories of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Kat’s first book, titled Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines (Duke University Press, March 2025), expands the “vernacular” in the history of colonial botany and examines practical and epistemological tensions in the Philippines during the science’s internationalist acceleration.