On March 23rd, APRA member Mathilde Kamer (MSc) will give a lecture on the long-term political effects of moral panic related to psychedelics during the 1960s and 70s, and how these effects are still present in academia and other institutions to this day. The lecture will take place at the University of Amsterdam (Roeterseiland campus) Room A2.07.
About the speaker
Mathilde Kamer (MSc) holds a BSc in Political Science, a MSc in Conflict Resolution & Governance and a MSc in Political Communication. For her master’s thesis in Political Communication she studied the long-lasting political effects of the historic moral panic surrounding psychedelics on institutions to this day. During the process of developing her thesis she experienced resistance from within the UvA due to the controversial nature of the topic (psychedelics), the irony of which was not lost on her.
Read here thesis here!