ESPD 50
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs
ESPD 50
SPEAKERS
Speakers and Recordings
ARCHAEOSPHERE | Ancient psychoactive plant use in ethnobotanical archaeology
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
What a long, strange trip it’s been: Reflections on the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs 1967-2017
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
Ethnopharmacology meets the receptorome – Bioprospecting for psychotherapeutic drugs in the Amazon rain forest
Manuel Torres
Professor Emeritus
The origins of the ayahuasca/yagé concept. An inquiry into the synergy between DMT and ß carbolines.
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY |
Christopher McCurdy
Medicinal Chemist
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) as a potential therapy for opioid dependance.
Jean François Sobiecki
Ethnobotanist
Psychoactive Initiation Plant Medicines: Their Role in the Healing and Learning Process of South African and Upper Amazonian Traditional Healers.
Jeanmaire Molina
Associate Professor
Phylogenetic analysis of traditional medicinal plants: discovering new drug sources from patterns of cultural convergence.
Keeper Trout
Author
Mescal, peyote and the red bean; a peculiar conceptual collision in early modern ethnobotany.
Kenneth Alper
Associate Professor
The Ibogaine Project: Urban ethnomedicine for opioid use disorder.
Michael Heinrich
Professor of Ethnopharmacology
Ethnopharmacology – from Mexican hallucinogens to a global transdisciplinary science.
Nigel Gericke
Medical Doctor
Kabbo’s !kwaiń Sceletium species – The past, present and future of Kanna.
Snu Voogelbreinder
Ethnobotanist
Psychoactive Acacia Spp. In Australia & Their Alkaloids.
Stacy B. Schaeffer
Professor Emerita
Fertile Grounds? Peyote and the Human Reproductive System.
ETHNOSPHERE | Contemporary cultures of psychoactive plant use
Glenn Shepard
Ethnopharmacologist
Substance, soul and sensation in Amazonian shamanism.
SOCIOSPHERE | Psychoactive substances, institutions, law & policy
Evgenia Fotiou
Anthropologist
Plant use and shamanic dietas in contemporary Ayahuasca shamanism in Peru.
Jerry D. Patchen
Attorney
Reflections on the Peyote Road with the Native American Church – Visions & Cosmology
Luis Eduardo Luna
Anthropologist
Ayahuasca, a powerful epistemological wildcard in a complex, fascinating and dangerous world.