Talks

“The Emerging Futures of Psychedelic Medicine” Asia-Pacific Symposium on Psychedelic Medicine, Monash-Malaysia University, Kuala Lumpur, November 2025

“Psychedelic Wonder and Awe Gone Global” Seminar for Department of Anthropology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, August 2025

“Medicine as Form of Life” Seminar for Eastern Health Hospitals, Mental Health Program. Melbourne, June 2025

“How Important is Culture for Psychedelic Therapy?” An interactive workshop for the Clinical Psychedelic Lab, Monash University, Melbourne. May 2025

“Anthropology and Clinical Psychedelics:
Applied Ethnography as “Third Culture”?” at workshop “Psychedelic Humanities: Bridging the Two Cultures?” . The New School, New York. April 2025

“Psychedelics and Context: Perennialism versus Constructivism”, seminar for Department of Anthropology graduate programme, Princeton University, US – April 2025

“Psychedelic Facilitation: Navigating Affective Labor and Atmospheres of Psychedelic Science”, invited speaker for “Psychedethical: The future of psychedelic and psychoactive substances” conference at Shanghai University – December 2024

“Bodily Vibrations: Ayahuasca’s Kinetic Agency in Cross-Cultural Health. Conference paper for “International Symposium on Eco-Mobilities: Kinopolitics and Kinopoetics in the Anthropocene”, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University – November 2024

“Affective Atmospheres in Psychedelic Science” invited speaker at “The Third Peking University International Conference on Medical Humanities: Humanities in Promoting Health for All”, School of Health Humanities, Peking University, Beijing November 2024

“Ayahuasca as Medicine or Muse?” public talk at Stanford Medicine Department of Psychiatry, California. Hosted by the Stanford Psychedelic Science Network – August 2024

“Psychedelic Integration and Society”, for the Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) summit, Washington DC – August 2024

“Psychedelic awe and wonder in socio-cultural context” Interdisciplinary Conference for Psychedelic Research, Haarlem, The Netherlands. June, 2024

“Writing Ethnography for Anthropologists and Others.” Presentation given in seminar “Anthropology by the Century”, Society of Fellows, The University of Hong Kong. April 2024

“Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life”, seminar for the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei – February 2024

“Psychedelic Atmospherics: Mood and Meaning in Psychedelic Medicine Spaces”, Psychedelic Intersections symposium, Harvard Divinity School, USA – February 2024

“Inside the Emerging Psychedelic Underground in China”, public talk for The Psychedelic Humanities Salon in collaboration with The New School for Social Research, Department of Anthropology, New York – February 2024

“Speaking the Unspeakable: Metaphor and Narrative in Psychedelic Medicine Experiences” Public Talk at the Hong Kong Museum of History in collaboration with The Hong Kong Anthropological Society, TST, Hong Kong. 2023

“Wonder and Healing at an Ayahuasca Tourism Centre, Peru”. Paper given at Psychedelic Science conference, Denver, CO. 2023

“Opening the blackbox of clinical psychedelic therapies” with Nicolas Langlitz for the Contemporary Issues in Bioethics and Health Humanities Series, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, The University of Hong Kong. 2023

“Indigenous Amazonian Medicine in a Capitalist World” Public online talk jointly hosted by Hong Kong University’s Centre for Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit. Discussant: Glenn Shepard. 2022