Talks
2023
Roundtable "E c o l o g i z i n g Therapeutic Practices", AAA Conference, Toronto, November 2023.
"Should STS Make Psychedelic Research More Responsible?" (with Torsten Voigt), 4S Conference, Honolulu, November 2023.
"The psychedelic renaissance and media studies" (with Torsten Voigt), 4S Conference, Honolulu, November 2023.
"Psychedelics as charismatogens." Synchronicity, New York, October 2023.
"Charismatogens." Inaugural HOPE Summit on Psychedelic Ethics. Oxford University, August 2023.
"Psychedelics and the Crisis of Psychopharmacology." Charité Hospital, Berlin, July 2023.
“Psychedelics and the Crisis of Psychiatric Medicine.” Hong Kong University, May 2023.
"Opening the Blackbox of Clinical Psychedelic Therapies" (with Alex Gearin). Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Hong Kong University 2023.
"Injecting Reflective Freedom into Moral Psychopharmacology." Workshop What Good Are the Psychedelic Humanities? The New School, April 2023.
“The Psychedelic Renaissance: High Hopes and Rising Criticisms” (with Hamilton Morris), SXSW, Austin (TX), March 2023.
“What (Good) Are Psychedelic Humanities?” Course Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Production in Psychedelic Science, Chacruna Institute, February 2023.
2022
"Psychedelic Innovations." Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, University of Heidelberg, retreat at Kloster Schöntal, July 2022.
"Psychedelic morals are more complicated than you think." Webinar with Juuso Kähönen at the Finnish Association for Psychedelic Research, June 2022.
"Psychedelic Innovations and the Crisis of Psychopharmacology." University of Zurich. May 2022.
2021
"Mind the Gap: Should We Collapse Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Humanities into a Third Culture?" Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London. May 2021.
"The Extinction of Chimpanzee Cultures: A Plea for Fatalism." Panel Anthropology of Endings, Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, St. Andrews/virtual, April 2021.
“Making Up for a Missed Encounter? Why Cultural Primatologists and Cultural Anthropologists Didn't Get to Talk.” Primate Conversations Seminar, Oxford University. February 2021.
2020
“Political Psychopharmacology.” Virtual symposium Psychedelics and Culture. Graduate Program in Science, Technology & Society, Bar Ilan University, November 2020.
"The Paradox of Psychedelic Humanities." Keynote at Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research Amsterdam/virtual, September 2020.
“The Paradoxical Place of Psychedelic Humanities in Consciousness Culture.” Virtual symposium Progress in "Bewusstseinskultur." Mind Foundation, Berlin/virtual, September 2020.
2019
“The Extinction of Chimpanzee Cultures: A Plea for Fatalism.” Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, November 2019.
“Feldphilosophie im Affenlabor.” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Köln, September 2019.
“Organized Polemics.” Colloquium at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, May 2019.
“Zeit des Erkennens, Zeit des Schließens.” Workshop with Julian Rohrhuber at Institut für Musik und Medien, Robert Schuman Hochschule Düsseldorf, May 2019.
“Fieldwork in Philosophy.” Conference Midst Anthropology’s Problems. Berkeley, April 2019.
2018
“Cultural Primatology in the Anthropocene,” Conference Le Primate Comme Sujet, Collège de France, Paris, 22 May 2018.
“Fieldwork in Perennial and Neurophilosophy.” Conference How Psychotropic Substances Transformed the World: Harvesting, Producing and Consuming LSD, Psilocybin and Mescaline. Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Berne, April 2018.
“Rightist Psychedelia.” Panel discussion The Altered Mind: Psychedelics and the Ethics of Mind Enhancement. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 2018.
“Zeit, Streit und Forschung. Warum gibt es moderne aber keine zeitgenössischen Wissenschaften – und was sagt uns das über die Kunst?” Two-day workshop and invited talk at Institut für Musik und Medien, Robert Schuman Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany, January 2018.
2017
“Science as Cosmic Play, Humanities as Perennial Polemics.” Workshop Disenchantment’s Enchantments: A Century of Science as a Vocation, Harvard University, 16/17 November 2017.
"Psychedelik als epistemische und ästhetische Herausforderung.” Two-day workshop and invited talk at Institut für Musik und Medien, Robert Schuman Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany, July 2017.
“From Human Nature to Chimpanzee Cultures and Back Again.” Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, June 2017.
”Chimpanzee Culture Wars: How Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropologists Battled over American Sociobiology, Japanese Primatology, and a Multiculturalism Beyond the Human.” Keynote at Trial Research Conference, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, May 2017.
2016
”World-making in a Japanese Chimpanzee Laboratory.” Workshop Evidentiary Practices: Testing, Measuring and Accounting in Global Infrastructures, Universität Halle, 21-22 April 2016.
“Drugged and Dreaming Brains: Two Opaque Models to Explore the Neurobiological Basis of Mental Phenomena.” Workshop Modeling the Vital Brain: The Making and Use of Models in Neuroscience. Freie Universität Berlin, 7-8 April 2016.
“Synthetic Primatology: Human and Chimpanzee Doings in a Japanese Laboratory and the African Field.” Washington University, St. Louis, 29 March 2016
Interdiscplinary Ethnography Workshop with Eben Kirksey and Etienne Benson, Princeton, 16 February 2016.
2015
“Vatted Dreams: Neurophilosophy and the Politics of Phenomenal Internalism.” Talk in seminar series Neuroscience and History, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, 14 October 2015.
“‘How Do Chimpanzees Perceive this World?’ Japanese Primatology after Imanishi.” Talk at conference “"Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1980-2015."" Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 18–19 September.
“Is There a Place for Psychedelics in Philosophy? Anthropological Observations.” University of Kyoto, 7 August 2015.
Artmap workshop “Measures and Devices,” Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 9 January 2015.
2014
Lecture “A Troubled Interdisciplinarian’s Fieldwork in Neurophilosophy” and workshop (with Fernando Vidal) “Interdisciplinarity and Its Discontents” at the symposium Mind the Brain! Neuroscience in Society, Berlin School for Mind and Brain, November 2014.
“The Observation of What?” Lecture series Ethnography and Social Theory, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, October 2014.
Workshop “Comedy of Things.” Copenhagen, August 2014.
“Mainstreaming Psychedelia.” Conversation with Emily Segal from K-Hole. Swiss Institute, New York, August 2014. [Article] [Video]