On September 25, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), in partnership with the BCSP, will host two events on the UC Berkeley campus exploring what psychedelics can offer the humanities as part of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture programming. From 12:00 – 1:30pm in Dwinelle Hall, Ramzi Fawaz, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leads The Thrill of Groundlessness: A Psychedelic Humanities Tool Kit. This workshop explores how qualities often linked to psychedelic experience–disruption of the ego, sharpened perception, and a sense of vast connection–might open new ways of teaching, researching, and sustaining intellectual life in unsettled times. Alongside questions of method and pedagogy, the workshop reflects on how these qualities might support the well-being of humanities scholars in a precarious academic landscape.
Advance registration required.