UKC PSYCHEDELICS SOCIETY SCHEDULE 2010
The society hosts weekly open lectures, open to staff, students and the general public. Traditionally, our lectures are held on Wednesday evenings.
If you’re unfamiliar with Canterbury or UKC, there are travel details to be found at www.kent.ac.uk. Darwin College is found at the far East of campus. If you’re driving and have a GPS, the postcode is CT2 7NY. DLT1 & DLT2 are on the Darwin College ground floor. DLT3 is on the second floor.
Click on speaker names for more details.
| DATE | SPEAKER | PRESENTATION | TIME | VENUE |
| 29/9 | David King, Jake Brant, Oli Genn-Bash | An Introduction to Psychedelics | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 06/10 | Entheogenesis australis | Three DVD presentations from the Australian conference. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 13/10 | Alex Grey (audiotape) | ‘The Visionary Artist’: a visionary art class led by a series of visualisations and meditations from the illustrious Alex Grey | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 20/10 | Dr. Cameron Adams | From Medicine to Meta-Sin and Back Again: Psychedelic Healing from Etic and Emic Perspectives. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 27/10 | Levent Akbulut |
Director of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) in the UK. An introduction to the war of drugs. | 18:00 | TBC |
| 03/11 | Dr. Angela Voss | Director of the MA in Cosmology and Divination: “Spirituality and Understanding the Paranormal through the Imagination.” | 18:00 | TBC |
| 10/11 | Dr. David Luke | President of the Parapsychological Association, and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich. | 18:00 | TBC |
| 17/11 | Brian Anderson | “The Treatment & Handling of Substance Dependence with Ayahuasca: Reflections on Current & Future Research.” | 18:00 | TBC |
| 24/11 | MAPS | The MAPS team call in through skype for a Q&A session. | 18:00 | TBC |
| 01/12 | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris | Research findings from a psilocybin fMRI study. | 18:00 | TBC |
| 08/12 | Dr. Alex Stevens | Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy and senior researcher at UKC. | 18:00 | TBC |
| 15/12 | Dr. Ben Sessa | A presentation on of the history and future of psychedelics in psychiatric medicine. | 18:00 | TBC |
| TBC | Hattie Wells [TBC] | Hattie is extremely experienced and knowledgeable about hallucinogens, ibogaine therapy, shamanism and holotropic breathwork. | 18:00 | TBC |
| TBC | Andy Roberts | Andy is the author of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain. | 18:00 | |
| TBC | Dr. Caroline Chatwin | Criminologist studying the Psytrance scene and drug-use patterns. | 18:00 | TBC |
| TBC | Dr. Raj Puri [TBC] | Raj is an ethnobotanist and convenor of the MSc in Environmental Anthropology. | 18:00 | TBC |
| TBC | www.psychedelic-art.com [TBC] | Robbie will present a talk on psychedelic art. | 18:00 | TBC |
PAST EVENTS:
| DATE | DAY | SPEAKER | PRESENTATION | TIME | VENUE |
| 03/02 | WED | Film | Viewing of ‘Manifesting the Mind’. | 18:00 | DLT1 |
| 10/02 | WED | David King [Society] | An introduction to psychedelic: what is a drug, what is a psychedelic, and what is the psychedelic experience? | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 19/02 | FRI | Alexander Beiner | “Visionary Art, Ego-Death and the Sublime”, with readings from the book ‘Beyond the Basin’. | 18:00 | DLT1 |
| 24/02 | WED | Andy Letcher | A cultural history of the magic mushroom: challenging popular theories. Summary of the book ‘Shroom’. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 03/03 | WED | Dr. Anna Waldstein | An analysis of the nature of addiction, and a short history of psychedelic suppression. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 10/03 | WED | Oli Genn-Bash [Society] | “Politics and the status of Psychedelics in Society”. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 17/03 | WED | Dr. Peter Brackenridge. | Ibogaine therapy: case study of a man with clinical depression. Q&A session to follow. | 18:00 | DLT1 |
| 24/04 | WED | Dr. Axel Klein | Four mechanisms that have complicated our relationship with drugs. | 18:00 | DLT3 |
| 31/03 | WED | Ivan Casselman | A study of contemporary Salvia divinorum use in the west, and the connection to ritual. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
| 07/04 | WED | Dr. Dan Lloyd | An introduction to psychedelic chemistry and pharmacology: how psychedelics affect the body and brain. | 18:00 | DLT2 |
