Events

2022 UW Madison Psychedelic Symposium
Oct. 27-28, 2022

Session Topics:

• Psychedelic Rhetoric
• Psychedelic Research and Lessons to Learn from Contemplative Sciences
• Experiential Activity: Sacred Medicine
• Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom: Reflections on How this Lens Intersects with Research Procedures, Study Design, Therapeutic Practices and Commercialization of Sacred Medicine/Psychedelics
• Urban Indigenous Collective and Psychedelic Cultural Humility
• Role of Psychedelic Societies in Outreach / Education
• Wholeness: A Mind-Body Approach
• Anesis and Intercultural Psychotherapy
• Postpartum Psychedelic Therapies and Intergenerational Trauma: MDMA for Addiction/PTSD and Ketamine for Depression
• Psychedelic Science – Greatest Hits of 2022 – Preclinical and Mechanistic
• Psychedelic Science – Greatest Hits of 2022 – Clinical and Implementation
• Ketamine Infusion in Psychiatric Treatment
• Esketamine at the VA +/- Prep and Integration

2022 Psychedelic Speaker Series

• Feb 2, 2022
  Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global Psychotropy and Culture – (February 2, 2022)
  Speaker: Joe Patterson, Augustana Univ.
• March 10, 2022
  “A Specific Cure for Homosexuality”: Postwar Psychedelic Conversion Therapies in the United States and Canada
  Speaker: Andrea Ens, Purdue University
• March 31, 2022
  Standards without Labs: Psychedelic Drug Development in the Underground
  Speaker: Joanna Kempner, Rutgers University
• April 14, 2022
  Literary Theory on Acid
  Speaker: Ramzi Fawaz, UW-Madison
• April 28, 2022
  Right Wing Psychedelia
  Speakers: Nese Devenot, Univ of Cincinnati; Brian Pace, The Ohio State University
• May 3, 2022
  Indigenous Knowledges and Psychedelic Science
  Speaker: Evgenia Fotiou, Independent Scholar

2021 Psychedelic Symposium
November 4 – 5, 2021

Session topics:

• Psychedelic Wars: Past and Present
• Psychedelics in Latin America and the case of the Intercultural Clinic in Sonora, Mexico
• Neuropharmacology of Psychedelic Action
• Environmental Influences on Psilocybin Outcomes Across Species
• MDMA as an Adjunct to the Treatment of PTSD
• Psilocybin in the Treatment of Addictive Disorders
• Psychedelics in the Treatment of Depression
• The Phenomenology of Psychedelics