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Tanya Luhrmann is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology, and she is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She has conducted ethnographic work among groups such as evangelic Christians, American Santerians, Zoroastrians in India, magicians in England, and people hearing voices across cultural contexts. Apart from being the author of lots of academic articles and opinion pieces in the New York Times, her award-winning books include ‘Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft’, ‘Of Two Minds’, ‘When God talks Back’, and ‘How God Becomes Real’. In this podcast we talk with Tanya about how people make God and Spirits real through various forms of practice and ideas. Tanya shares stories of world- and self-transformation from her fieldwork among magicians in England and evangelic Christians in the United States and unfolds some of the factors influencing such changes. We talk about the world-building effects of prayer, and how faith changes the person of faith. Finally, Tanya describes how cultural theories of mind also have an impact on the manifestation of anomalous, sensory experiences across contexts. The episode is part of Regnfang’s series of co-publications of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. The podcast was recorded in early December 2023, when Tanya was in Bergen to be a panellist of the annual Holberg Debate. Resources: Academic Profile: https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/tanya-marie-luhrmann Personal website: https://www.tanyaluhrmann.com - When God talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (2012) - Of Two Minds: An anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry (2001) - Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1989) - How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (2020) - Special issue: ‘Mind and Spirit: a Comparative Theory’ (2020) - Article mentioned: ‘Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths’ (2021) Host and production: Sidsel Marie Music: Victor Lange

In this episode, you will meet professor at the University of Oxford, Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey is the director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, he is Statutory Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College. Harvey has worked extensively with rituals since his first long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in 1980s. His list of publications includes myriads of interdisciplinary contributions, articles, and edited volumes apart from books, with the most recent being ‘The Ritual Animal’ (from 2021). Currently, Harvey is testing and developing his theory of modes of religiosity which proposes that the frequency, transmission form and emotionality of rituals influences the scale and structure of social organisation. In recent years, his research has expanded beyond religion to examine all kinds of ritual behaviour globally and their role in binding groups together whether being in the context of football, war, or ex-convicts. Apart from that, Harvey has been occupied with questions on the evolution of social complexity, something which is also explored in his forthcoming book ‘Inheritance: the evolutionary origins of the modern world’ that will be published in June 2024. In this podcast, we talk with Harvey about what characterises rituals, what kinds of social effects they can produce, and how they have developed throughout history and influenced social organisation. Harvey explains the modes of religiosity theory and we discuss how it can be usefully applied in relation to conflict and contexts as diverse as football fandom, violent extremism, and the environmental crisis. Finally, Harvey shares his vision of an anthropology that reaches beyond interpretive exclusivism and disciplinary silos when trying to understand cultural and social systems. The episode is part of Regnfang’s series of co-publications of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. The podcast was recorded in November 2023, when Harvey visited Bergen to give the yearly Barth Memorial Lecture. Resources: Academic profile: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-harvey-whitehouse Personal website: https://www.harveywhitehouse.com Paper mentioned: Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it (2023) Books mentioned: The Ritual Animal (2021), ‘Inheritance: the evolutionary origins of the modern world (forthcoming)

In this episode you will meet Jennifer Hays, who is professor in social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of Norway. Jennifer has been working with hunter-gatherer San Populations in southern Africa for 25 years, as a researcher, and as a consultant for governmental bodies and local and international NGOs. She is, among other things, a founding member of the Hunter Gatherer Education Research and Advocacy Group (HG-Edu), a board member of the Kalahari Peoples’ Fund. She also works as a consultant for UN bodies on global human rights issues. A primary focus of her work has been on issues relating to education, language, and indigenous rights, including the impact of formal education on San lifeways and on their own efforts to attain educational self-determination. In the podcast, Jennifer gives us insights into what characterises the ways of life of the approximately 10 million people worldwide who live in contemporary hunter-gatherer communities. Focusing on the Ju/’hoansi in the Nyae Nyae conservancy in Namibia, where Jennifer has conducted decades of extensive fieldwork, we discuss some of the challenges that this community face, especially in terms of education and knowledge transmission. Finally, Jennifer offers some reflections on the complex topic of how we can uphold the rights to self-determination of indigenous peoples, and some of the pitfalls that we must take caution to avoid. The episode is part of Regnfang’s series of co-publications of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. The podcast was recorded in early November 2023 when Jennifer was in Bergen to give a lecture at the Bergen Anthropology Department Seminars. Resources: - Read more about Jennifer’s work and find her publications here Host and production: Sidsel Marie Music: Victor Lange

I denne udsendelse kan du møde filosof og filosofihistoriker Sabrina Ebbersmeyer. Sabrina er lektor på Københavns Universitet, hvor hun forsker og underviser. Hun har publiceret en lang række artikler, bogkapitler og bøger om forskellige filosofiske spørgsmål - heriblandt renæssancens filosofi, naturforståelse, kvindelige filosoffers plads i filosofihistorien og forholdet mellem emotioner og rationalitet. I dette interview giver Sabrina en introduktion til flere filosofiske diskussioner. Hun giver et overblik over renæssanc ens syn på sjælen, herunder den italienske filosof Telesios teori om emotioner. Derudover taler vi om den danske adelskvinde og filosof Birgitte Thotts oversættelse af Seneca. Slutteligt fortæller Sabrina om et nyt og stort anlagt forskningsprojekt, der skal udforske kvindelige filosoffers rolle i Nordens oplysningstid. Hun har netop modtaget midler til det projekt fra det meget prestigefyldte European Research Council (ECR). Jeg nød virkelig at tale med Sabrina. Hendes forskning og perspektiver på filosofi er enormt berigende og utrolig interessante. Jeg vil anbefale alle, der har interesse for filosofi, at følge hendes arbejde. God fornøjelse. Klipning: Sidsel Marie Musik og vært: Victor Lange

I denne udsendelse kan du møde Hans Jørgen Brøndum. Hans Jørgen drev trykkeriet og forlaget Brøndum i næsten 40 år, i Nansensgade 41 i København. Brøndum opsatte, trykte og udgav nogle af de fineste udgivelser, vi har på dansk. Det gjaldt danske og udenlandske forfattere og kunstnere såsom Inger Christensen, Henrik Nordbrandt, Per Kirkeby, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett og Fernando Pessoa. Hans Jørgen giver i nærværende udsendelse en række erindringer omkring sit virke. Han fortæller om sine unge år som studerende på kunstakademiet i København, om sit første møde med blandt andet digteren Ole Sarvig, om de tidlige år med trykkeriet og om de mange forskellige mennesker, der kom på Nansensgade 41. Du kan høre om, hvordan Hans Jørgen arbejdede sammen med Inger Christensen i forbindelse med udgivelsen af Sommerfugledalen, eller hvordan han indledte sit årelange venskab og virke med Henrik Nordbrandt og Per Kirkeby. Jeg vil anbefale, at man anskaffer sig Hans Jørgens erindringer, I en kælder sort som kul. Den er enormt velskrevet og indeholder virkelig interessante betragtninger omkring litteratur, kunst og livet i det hele taget. Den kan købes i butikken på Nansensgade 41. God fornøjelse.

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live. In this episode, you will meet Matthew Carey who is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. Matthew’s main field site is in the Moroccan High Atlas where he has done recurring fieldwork since 2002. His work here has, among other things, focused on mistrust, complicity, egalitarianism, sincerity, subjectivity, medical pluralism, and anarchism. Apart from that, Matthew has written on issues related to apocalyptic discourses, conspiracy, lying, and bureaucracy. In this conversation, we talk with Matthew about his book ‘Mistrust: An ethnographic theory’ before delving into the subject of infant mortality and parental grief among Tachelhit-Berber speaking communities in Southern Morocco. In trying to explain the radical difference here between showcase and claimed experience of grief when small compared to older children passed away, Matthew provides an anthropological analysis of different forms of emotional attachment and relational bonding. The podcast was recorded in early May 2023 when Matthew was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS). Host and production: Sidsel Marie Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live. In this episode you will meet Veronica Strang, who is a professor of anthropology currently affiliated with Oxford University. Her research focuses on human-environmental relations, and in particular, societies’ engagements with water, encompassing conflicts over ownership and governance; cultural beliefs and values; human and non-human rights; and people´s sensory and cognitive interactions with water. Veronica’s main ethnographic research has been conducted in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, and apart from publishing an impressive number of academic books and articles on the topic of water, she has consulted and worked with people from the water industry, the UN, and UNESCO, just to mention a few. We talk with Veronica about her more recent work on water beings. After describing what a water being is, Veronica unfolds how thinking with and through these creatures can illuminate culturally specific and historically changing human-environmental relations. We talk about how water beings can be used as a narrative device for criticising a sharp nature/culture divide and how they can provide alternative models for relating to nature and responding to the current environmental crisis. Finally, Veronica touches upon the comparative and co-authoring nature of anthropology. The podcast was recorded in late May 2023 when Veronica was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS). Books referred to in the podcast: - Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental crisis (Reaktion Books, 2023) - The Meaning of Water (Routledge, 2004) - Gardening the world: agency, identity, and the ownership of water (Berghahn Books, 2009) Host and production: Sidsel Marie Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live. This episode’s guest, George Paul Meiu, is professor of anthropology and chair of the institute of social anthropology at the University of Basel and associate in the departments of anthropology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. George’s research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; ethnicity, belonging and citizenship; mobility, memory, and materiality; and the political economy of East Africa and Eastern Europe. He is the author of the prize-winning book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), and his new book, currently in press, is titled Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2023). In addition, George is our companion in the attempt of getting anthropology on air, he is the host and producer of the combined video-podcast platform, Ethnographic Imagination Basel, which we really recommend checking out! In this podcast, we talk with George about ways to understand the contemporary homophobic violence and sentiment in Kenya. Instead of imposing perspectives from queer liberalism, George suggests situating the phenomenon in its own social, material, and historical context in order to grasp its local grammar and conditions of reproduction. George then offers an analytical strategy to do this through a focus on what he calls ‘queer objects’. We talk about how objects such as plastic and diapers can be used to grasp the moral panic over homosexuality in Kenya and how this relates to notions of intimate citizenship. Finally, George describes how the queer potentiality of objects has been used in artivism and activism and how we might use it for thinking critically, imagining, and creating new worlds. The podcast was recorded in early June 2023 when George was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS). Resources: - If you want to learn more about George’s work, we recommend listening to this New Books Network podcast episode, where he talks about his prize-winning book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya Host and production: Sidsel Marie Music: Victor Lange

In this podcast, we talk with philosopher and cognitive scientist, Ophelia Deroy. Ophelia is professor at the Ludwig Maxmillian University in Munich where she directs the interdisciplinary research group Cognition, Value, and Behaviour. Her research concerns a wide range of topics including decision-making, social cognition, perception, and the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence. She has done research in both philosophy and cognitive science, involving publication of many academic books and numerous articles in research journals. Related, Ophelia has also collaborated with museums such as the Tate Museum in London. The present interview touches upon multiple topics. We begin with Ophelia’s own research background before moving into a discussion of the scientific research on sensing. Following this, the interview addresses the topic of metacognition and closes with Ophelia’s broader perspectives on science communication. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did. I find Ophelia’s perspectives on these matters deeply engaging and exciting. I highly recommend checking out Ophelia’s website where you can dive into her work (www.opheliaderoy.com). We hope that you will enjoy the conversation! Production: Heine Volder Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question, and we pose it to producers and importers of natural wine in the present series. This will take you on a journey around Europe, between cities like those of Paris and Munich, to the countryside of Southern France. In this episode, you will meet the winemakers Anders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert. Even though they are both Danish, Anders and Anne live and make wine in the small and old village of Valvignères in Ardèche, in Southern France. We completely fell in love, not only with Anders’ and Anne’s bottles, but also with their approach and mentality about wine making. It was a great pleasure to visit their beautiful home in Valvignères where they live with their daughter, son, and sweet dog. Their wines are really amazing and very distinct–personally, some of the best we have had in our lives. We cannot recommend them enough. We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did! Website: https://www.andersfrederiksteen.com/ Also, check out Anders’ inspiring book on wine-making and wine-drinking: https://www.apartamentomagazine.com/product/poetry-is-growing-in-our-garden-anders-frederik-steen/

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature. In this episode, you will meet Nathaniel Ratapu. Nathan runs the wine- and book shop Rerenga Wines in the 10th arrondissement in Paris. The shop is truly fascinating, packed with a wide assortment of inspiring bottles and edgy literature. We highly recommend visiting it if you are around. We talk with Nathan about entering the world of natural wine and how it relates to current political issues on inequality, cultural identity, and the natural environment. Of course, we also ask Nathan whether natural wine is to be understood purely as an agricultural product or also an art form - a question that opens multiple lines of thought. Check out Rerenga Wines on the following: https://www.rerengawines.com/ We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature. In this episode, you will meet winemaker François Blanchard. François makes truly wonderful wine. He works in Le Perron in the village of Lémeré, in Loire. We met Francois at the wine fair La GoulAyance in Paris—a fair he actually arranged together with some of his fellow wine makers. This explains the background noise, and why there is a man yelling in a megaphone towards the end of the interview (the fair was closing and everyone had to stop serving and drinking wine). As already mentioned, François’ wines are extraordinary. Check out his website and find out how you get a hand on some of his bottles. You find the link in the description for this episode. Website: http://www.francois-blanchard.com/ We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature. In this episode, you will meet George from the house Gelovani Cellar. Gelovani Cellar makes wine in Georgia. Their wines are astonishing, really rich and generous. We highly recommend trying out their wine, so check out their social media in the description for this podcast Gelovain Cellar: https://en-gb.facebook.com/Gelovani.cellar/ We met with George at the wonderful restaurant Supra in Belleville, Paris. The interview was recorded in the kitchen of the restaurant, which explains some of the background noise. We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature. In this episode, you will meet winemaker Beatriz. Beatriz produces wine together with Etinne Le Blanc. Their domain is called Clos Kixhaya and is located in Loire, more precisely in Chino. Their wines are truly amazing and we really, really recommend them. We were lucky to taste a handful of them at the wine fair La GoulAyance in Paris. The interview is recorded at this wine fair, which explains the bit of background noise you might hear. Follow Clos Kixhaya on Instragram and find out buy some of their wonderful wine: https://www.instagram.com/clos_kixhaya/?hl=da We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine has to do with this topic? For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer. Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question, and we pose it to producers and importers of natural wine in the present series. This will take you on a journey around Europe, between cities like those of Paris and Munich, to the countryside of Southern France. In this episode, you will meet Claudia Sontheim. Claudia has been a part of the European natural wine scene for many years, both in importing wines and in running restaurants and eateries. Today, she is in charge of the wine shop, Origine Natural Wines, which sells wines online and in shop at their new address in Berlin. We really, really recommend the assortment at Origine Natural Wines. It is incredible. Check out Origine Natural Wines here: https://origine-kiosque.de/ We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Denne udsendelses gæst er litteraturforsker og kritiker, Mette Høeg. Mette er PhD i litteratur fra King’s College i London og arbejder lige nu på Oxford Universitet. Hendes nuværende forskningsprojektet bærer titlen ‘The role of literature and the humanities in the development of a consciousness culture and ethics’. Projektet bygger på det synspunkt, at bevidsthedsforskning bør være et interdisciplinært forskningsområde, hvor ikke kun naturvidenskabelige discipliner såsom hjerneforskning, kognitiv psykologi og visse grene af filosofi deltager. Humanistiske discipliner, såsom litteraturforskning, bør også spille en rolle. Interviewet med Mette falder i fire dele. Første del omhandler litteraturforskning og litteraturkritik som discipliner. Hvad indebærer de, og er der en væsentligt forskel at holde for øje? I anden del spørger vi Mette, hvad litteraturforskning helt overordnet kan tilbyde bevidsthedsforskning. Der fokuseres i særdeleshed på to forfattere, nemlig Virginia Woolf og Robert Musil. I tredje del vender vi perspektivet og spørger: Hvad kan bevidsthedsforskning tilbyde litteraturforskning? Slutteligt, i fjerde del, anbefaler Mette tre litterære værker, som hun mener tilbyder væsentlige perspektiver til moderne bevidsthedsforskning. Du kan læse mere om Mettes forskning ved følgende link. Mettes forskning er i øvrigt støttet af Carlsberg Fondet: https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/mette-leonard-hoeg God fornøjelse!

In this episode you will meet Tehseen Noorani who is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical & Community Psychology and Anthropology at the University of East London. Noorani is furthermore a contributor to the psychedelic community in a wide variety of ways. He was for example a co-investigator on the Johns Hopkins psilocybin for smoking-cessation study. He co-organized the free online psychedelic conference Psychedelic, Madness & Awakening which is still freely available. He has written defining papers detailing the processes of medicalizing psychedelic substances, and he is often cited for his original critical analyses. At present, Noorani is writing a monograph tracing the renewed scientific and therapeutic interest in psychedelic experiences in the global North, exploring implications for theories of psychopathology and approaches to mental health care. Weaving together scientific, medical, spiritual and aesthetic registers, this research is situated in the context of medicalisation and the ongoing ‘war on drugs’. The vantage point for this conversation is Noorani’s presentation at ICPR where he charted and envisioned methods for more rigorous psychedelic drug trial designs that better account for context. We hope that you will enjoy the conversation! Resources: http://www.psychedelicsmadnessawakening.com/https://twitter.com/tehseennooraniHost: Kevin Mikkelsen Production: Heine Volder Music: Victor Lange This podcast was made in a collaboration between Regnfang and Cepda - the Danish Center for Psychedelic Awareness. The music in the podcast was made by Victor Lange. Thank you to the OPEN Foundation for organizing and funding the ICPR conference and for providing us a quiet space during the conference for doing the podcast recordings. Illustrations by Lizette Rosager Follow the links to learn more about Cepda and Regnfang

In this podcast you will meet, Assistant Professor at Erasmus University, research associate at the University of California, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal Biosemiotics, Yogi Hendlin. Hendlin’s work draws on deep ecology, environmental philosophy, especially decolonial kinds, and public health policy. In focusing on the ecological aspects of psychedelics, Hendlin takes a less individualistic approach to the study of these substances than what is usually done in clinical research. And In this conversation, Hendlin unfolds what he terms the ‘ecodelic’ components of the psychedelic experience. We hope you will enjoy the conversation! Resources: here Host: Sidsel Marie Production: Heine Volder Music: Victor Lange This podcast was made in a collaboration between Regnfang and Cepda - the Danish Center for Psychedelic Awareness. The music in the podcast was made by Victor Lange. Thank you to the OPEN Foundation for organizing and funding the ICPR conference and for providing us a quiet space during the conference for doing the podcast recordings. Illustrations by Lizette Rosager Follow the links to learn more about Cepda and Regnfang

In this podcast, you will meet PhD candidate in the history of science at the Université Picardie – Jules Vernes in France and associate researcher at the Paul Brousse hospital, Vincent Verroust. Verroust current PhD investigations focus on the discovery of psilocybin fungi in the west and are based on the archives of Prof. Roger Heim (1900 - 1979), which are kept at the French National Museum of Natural History, and contain a large volume of correspondence with the two psychedelic pioneers R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann. Apart from doing psychedelic research, Verroust is also founder and board member of the French Psychedelic Society. In the podcast Verroust provides a critical examination of the concept of ‘indigenous reciprocity’ as it is sometimes used within psychedelic research with regards to psilocybin. We hope you will enjoy the conversation! Host: Sidsel Marie Production: Heine Volder Music: Victor Lange This podcast was made in a collaboration between Regnfang and Cepda - the Danish Center for Psychedelic Awareness. The music in the podcast was made by Victor Lange. Thank you to the OPEN Foundation for organizing and funding the ICPR conference and for providing us a quiet space during the conference for doing the podcast recordings. Illustrations by Lizette Rosager Follow the links to learn more about Cepda and Regnfang

In this episode we talk to Kim Kuypers who is Associate Professor with Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. She also obtained her Ph.D. there, in 2007. For the following four years, she remained in Maastricht conducting postdoctoral research into the effects of MDMA on memory and driving performance. Additionally, in 2011, she was also a postdoctoral researcher at Belgium’s Ghent University where she studied the risk analysis of alcohol and drugs in traffic accidents. Her aim is to understand the neurobiology underlying flexible cognition, empathy, and well-being. Dr. Kuypers and her team employ a psychopharmacological model to study the acute and longer term effects of psychedelics on these behaviors and their underlying biology. Dr. Kuypers and the team at Maastricht have been investigating the optimal dose of microdosing LSD to improve mood, cognition and pain resilience, with minimal side effects and interferences to day to day life. In 2018, Dr. Kuypers was named the Principal Investigator for the Netherlands in the MAPS Phase 2 Clinical Trials of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD in Europe. This episode was conducted on zoom a couple of weeks after the conference. We get to talk to professor Kuypers mainly about her studies on microdosing, potential side-effects of the practice, new trends and disputes in the field, and where the science of microdosing is headed next. Host: Kevin Mikkelsen Production: Heine Volder Music: Victor Lange This podcast was made in a collaboration between Regnfang and Cepda - the Danish Center for Psychedelic Awareness. The music in the podcast was made by Victor Lange. Thank you to the OPEN Foundation for organizing and funding the ICPR conference and for providing us a quiet space during the conference for doing the podcast recordings. Illustrations by Lizette Rosager Follow the links to learn more about Cepda and Regnfang