Three Psychedelics Conferences have been organised by and held at the University of Exeter in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The third and most recent, Interrogating Psychedelic Integration, took place on 13th and 14th June 2024.
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Conference outline: Integration is both a woolly concept, and widely debated as a key factor in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Yet, it seems there is no equivalent in indigenous uses of psychedelics. Similarly participants in religious communities and festival events seem not to need ‘integration’. This conference facilitated an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts and practitioners to discuss why the clinic may need specific forms of psychedelic integration and how might this best be done.
Speakers included:
Celia Morgan, Christine Hauskeller, Andy Letcher, Peter Sjöstedt Hughes, Eirini Ketzitzidou Argyri, Rosalind Watts, Evgenia Fotiou, Fernanda Gebara, Geoff Bathje, Johanna Hilla Sopanen, Joseph Rennie, Leor Roseman, Maja Kohek, Mark Juhan Schunemann, Paul Gillis-Smith, Susanna & Ya’acov Darling Khan.
In a field as diverse, rich and controversial as psychedelics, we believe events encourage healthy, constructive discourse. In 2023, The University of Exeter was chosen as the location for the sixth Breaking Convention – Europe’s largest conference on psychedelic consciousness.
We also organise multidisciplinary academic events but also social gatherings such as Psychedelic Mayhem at the Exeter Phoenix in January 2024 to deliver an open forum for the humanities, arts and science to discuss the questions that permeate this field.
This event was held at The University of Exeter in June 2022.
it was a hybrid event on philosophic issues relating to psychedelic studies. Presenters include students from Exeter’s thriving postgraduate MA and PhD courses, postdocs affiliated to research in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as eminent international scholars. For more detailed information, visit here.
This event was held at The University of Exeter in April 2021.