ESPD 50
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

ESPD 50
SPEAKERS
Speakers and Recordings
Esteemed researchers interested in the confluence of psychoactive catalysts and global change were presented at ESPD55. Under the thoughtful curatorship of Dennis McKenna and the ESPD55 coordination team, a selection of the most well-respected researchers, together with emerging investigators, shared their most recent findings. Register and watch their 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.

Stacy B. Schaeffer
Professor Emerita
Fertile Grounds? Peyote and the Human Reproductive System.
ETHNOSPHERE | Contemporary cultures of psychoactive plant use
SOCIOSPHERE | Psychoactive substances, institutions, law & policy

Eduardo Luna
Anthropologist
Ayahuasca, a powerful epistemological wildcard in a complex, fascinating and dangerous world.

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