ESPD 60

Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

ESPD 60

SPEAKERS

Speakers and Recordings

ESPD60 brings together leading voices in ethnopharmacology, consciousness research, indigenous knowledge, and publishing for five days of intimate dialogue and exchange.

speakers & recordings

Alexandre Tannous

Ethnomusicologist, Sound Researcher and Therapist

Bio

Andy Letcher

Scholar of Religion

Magic mushrooms, Druids, and the new animism

Bio

Annette Badenhorst

Event Producer

Bio

Betsy Sethathi

Holistic Mental Health Practitioner, Researcher

Bio

Breyten Van der Merwe

Mycologist

Exploring southern Africa’s psychoactive mushrooms and plants: descriptions, applications, and the genus Psilocybe in Africa

Bio

Bryn Dentinger

Mycologist

Bio

Cedric Baker

Medical Food Ethnobotanist

Bio

Chris McCurdy

Professor Medicinal Chemistry

Bio

Colin Domnauer

Mycologist

Seeing the Little People: The History and Mystery of a New Psychoactive Mushroom

Bio

David F. Rodriguez-Mora

Environmental Anthropologist

Bio

Dennis McKenna

Ethnopharmacologist

Bio

Donna Torres

Botanical Artist

Bio

George Coleridge Lewis

Ethnopharmacologist

From landrace to commodity: Cannabis and the separation of people, place and plant

Bio

Giuliana Furci

Founder of the Fungi Foundation

Bio

Glenn Shepard

Anthropologist

Bio

Greg Hemmings

Filmmaker

Bio

Jeffrey Gerst

Molecular Biologist

Bio

Jerónimo Mazarrasa

Social Innovator

Bio

Jonathan Dickinson

Ambio Life Sciences

Bio

Kim Walker

Plant Medicine Researcher

Between the Lines: The Entangled Story of Coca and Cocaine

Bio

Lucy Walker

Filmmaker

Bio

Luke Jensen

Neuroscientist

Bio

Manuel Torres

Art History Professor

From the Monumental to the Intimate

Bio

Mark Plotkin

Ethnobotanist

Bio

Merlin Sheldrake

Mycologist

Bio

Michael Coe

Ethnobiologist

Ayahuasca, Knowledge, and Mortality: Mapping the Epistemologies of Shipibo Maestras

Bio

Michael Winkelman

Medical Anthropologist

The Ethnopharmacological Search for the Evolved Set and Setting

Bio

Michelle St. Pierre

Clinical Psychologist

Bio

Nigel Gericke

Medical Doctor

Neglected African Psychoactives: A Hypnotic Ginger, An Antipsychotic Yam, And The Tree of Forgetting

Bio

Norman Ohler

Author

Stoned Sapiens: A Deep History of the Altered Mind

Bio

P.D. Newman

Archeo-Ethnopharmacologist

Bio

Pamela Kriskow

Physician and certified psilocybe therapist

Bio

Paul Stamets

Mycologist

Bio

Rebecca Lazarou

Ethnopharmacologist

The conservation of global traditional medical knowledge and how ethnobotany can support a regenerative future

Bio

Shauheen Etminan

Founder Vcenna

Beyond Psychedelics: Oneirogens as the Universal Technologies of the Soul

Bio

Simon Ruffell

Medical Doctor

Bio

Tom Ray

Evolutionary Biologist

Awakening the Mental Genome: Discovering the Full Bouquet of Mental Organs, One Receptor at a Time

Bio

Wade Davis

Professor Emeritus Anthropology

Bio

William Scott Shelley

Independent scholar and author specializing in botany

Soma, Haoma and the Kykeon

Bio

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