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did you take Ecstasy in the UK at any point in the (long) 1990s?
if so, please consider participating in oral history research as part of my Wellcome-funded project "The Effects Can Last Forever".
for more details, check the image, DM, or email.
ALT DID YOU TAKE ECSTASY AT ANY POINT BETWEEN 1985 AND 2000? Did you consume MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly known as Ecstasy) at any point between 1985 and 2000? Would you like to contribute to a new cultural and social history of the drug, by talking to an historian about your experiences and memories? Volunteers are being sought for oral history interviews, and you can take part by contacting (confidentially) Dr Peder Clark, Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde. E-mail: [email protected] These interviews form part of the research for ‘The Effects Can Last Forever': Ecstasy's Risks and Pleasures in Britain, 1985-2000, a project funded by the Wellcome Trust.
excited for today's JOINT workshop on "Uppers & Downers" organised w/ @Milk_w_Knives @HimeshCMehta and kindly hosted by @WarwickHistory
particularly looking forward to being in conversation w/ @MikeJayNet whose intro to recent book "Psychonauts" is a great jumping off point
ALT Mike Jay, "Psychonauts" p.5
JOINT is a network for ECRs interested in drugs history supported by @SSHMedicine and @wellcometrust, contact me if you'd like to join
tomorrow, w/ @dieter_declercq!
‼️EVENT‼️ @CSHHH_Glasgow seminar
5 Nov., 4pm in RM TL565 w/ Dr Dieter Declercq (@UofGlasgow):
Medical humanities as helping work: a case study of play workshops for wellbeing and creative thinking
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My book's coming out as a paperback in November - manchesteruniversitypress.co…. It's mostly been reviewed as a book about the Troubles, which it sort of is, but if anyone would like to review it as an oral history, which it definitely is, please let me know!
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CFP: “Women and Alcohol: Dangerous Pleasures?” University College Dublin, Ireland - 19-20 June 2025 womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/…
Please submit abstracts of 250 words plus a short bio to [email protected] by 13 January 2025
@womenandalcoho1 @drinkingstudies
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Looking forward to welcoming @j_d_nott to the @CSHHH_Glasgow for our first seminar of the new term. Everyone welcome join us in the Teaching and Learning Building 662 @UniStrathclyde on Tuesday 24th of September 4-5.30. May even attempt pub after.
i reviewed "Expanding Mindscapes", @erikadyckhist and Chris Elcock's global history of psychedelics, for @AddictionJrnl: "an essential edited collection ... this important volume should find a place on many drug researchers’ bookshelves."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
on the materiality of pills , or have you ever been to Venice? for @the_polyphony w/ thanks to @EvaSurawy for the careful edits, and michael lorenzini for images
thepolyphony.org/2024/06/10/…
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Every drug's a heaven and hell 😇😈
Someone who's never tasted Irn Bru asked me today what it tastes like. All I could think of to say is that Irn Bru somehow tastes like what a recurring nightmare feels like; a taste of such protean awfulness that it brings with it a kind of terror you may never escape it #horror
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Publication day! 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut' is now available in all good bookshops. If you can make it there will be an official launch @ExploreWellcome on the 30th of May wellcomecollection.org/event… online and in person.
Today, we publish #Rumbles, an eye-opening and inspired history of the gut.
Through Ancient Greece and Victorian England, 18th-century France and contemporary America, @elsacrichardson's leads us on a tour of this fascinating body part.
@ExploreWellcome
tinyurl.com/RumblesBook
ALT A rectangular graphic with a red background and the hardback book Rumbles by Elsa Richardson in the centre. The Profile Books and Wellcome Collection logos are in either corner of the screen.
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“The first mentions of MDMA in the underground press characterized it as a ‘new love drug.’... In 1978, Timothy Leary found that it generated empathy but pronounced confidently that it would not be a ‘party stimulant’ or ‘recreational hit.’” —@MikeJayNet go.nybooks.com/4brWUgr
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Rare Spring sunshine and finally holding an actual physical copy of something long confined to a series of badly labelled word docs. Rumbles coming very soon @ProfileBooks @ExploreWellcome
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“Blotter is the most ephemeral of all psychedelic ephemera. It is produced to be eaten, to blur the divide between object and subject.”
Adapted from Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, by @erik_davis, out from @mitpress in April. buff.ly/3wLCfok
popping across town tomorrow to give "a short paper about chilling" for @UofGlasgowESH, my attempt to write a cultural history of the come-down. thanks to @kristinwh0 for the invite!
ALT A Short Paper about Chilling; or, A Cultural History of the Come-down
ALT a short film about chilling...
ALT the after-party
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Next week the @CSHHH_Glasgow will hear from our fabulous new cohort of MHCUK Fellows: Dr Kaija-Liisa Koovit, Dr Luis Bernardi Junqueira and Dr Mia Chen Ma. 4-5.30 Tuesday 20th join us in person in TL324 or email for the zoom details
looking forward to our first @CSHHH_Glasgow seminar of 2024 w/ @sashahandley, PI of @SleepingWell4, which promises to be anything but soporific! tomorrow, 4pm, all welcome
strath.ac.uk/humanities/depa…
Excited for our first @CSHHH_Glasgow seminar of the year as we will be joined by @sashahandley who will talking about two of my favourite things: sleeping and cooking. But in the Renaissance. Join us Tuesday 16th 4 pm in the Teaching and Learning building (324) @UniStrathclyde
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Excited for our first @CSHHH_Glasgow seminar of the year as we will be joined by @sashahandley who will talking about two of my favourite things: sleeping and cooking. But in the Renaissance. Join us Tuesday 16th 4 pm in the Teaching and Learning building (324) @UniStrathclyde