Appearances
I love giving talks. Send me an email if you want me to speak at some event or conference. For a description of a couple talks I do, click here. Here is a list of some past and upcoming appearances:
York University, Toronto – October 27th, 2010
Was thrilled to find out York University prof Greg Malszecki has been using my Head Trip as a text book for the past three years for his terrific course ‘Body as Light: Survey of Meditation Practices Ancient & Current.’ The best part is these are kinesiology students. Greg figured that in order for them to understand the body properly they also needed to understand the mind. Higher education. Gave a fun talk to Greg’s class, who turned out to all be lucid dreaming junkies.
Santa Fe, New Mexico – July 22nd, 2010 – Lindisfarne Fellows Conference
Gave a talk on whales, animal consciousness, empathy, imagination and the boundaries of human knowledge to a room of mind-blowing visionaries as part of the annual Lindisfarne Fellows conference, held this year at the Upaya Zen Center. Lindisfarne is an association of scientists, artists, scholars, and contemplatives devoted to the study and realization of a new planetary culture. One of the best weeks of my life; other speakers included Joan Halifax, Dorian Sagan, Lynn Margulis, Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, David Finkelstein, Mary Catherine Bateson, Evan Thompson, David Abrams and others.
More information on Lindisfarne here.
Tuscon, Arizona – April 13th, 2010
Headlined “Club Consciousness” at the 2010 Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference in Tuscon. In addition to my Head Trip show, the evenings featured a demented mix of mind-bending effusions, from a poetry slam to a talent show, stand-up comedy routine to something involving a lady from Star Trek, and of course, a reprise of the now infamous Zombie Blues, starring consciousness-raising (and, sometimes, diminishing) philosopher king and HardProblemMan … David Chalmers.
For event details and directions, the conference homepage is here.
Winchester, UK – June 27th, 2009
Presented my Head Trip multimedia show at the Art and Mind festival in Winchester. The festival’s mandate is to “bring together some of the world’s most eminent thinkers, scientists and artists to examine the way we experience and create contemporary culture.” Past speakers include practically every public science intellectual in Britain, from Richard Dawkins to V. S. Ramachandran to Rita Carter. This year the topic was “Dreams, Art and the Brain.”
For more details, go to: www.artandmind.org/pages/Events.htm
Hong Kong – June 5th and June 13th, 2009
Did two talks at the Asia Consciousness Festival and the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference in Hong Kong, June 2009. The TSC is the oldest and most reputable international conference on consciousness, and has been host to most of the world’s influential consciousness thinkers. It is also unabashedly multidisciplinary; in the words of the event organizers, the conference “will bring together visionaries and leaders in the field of consciousness, spanning neurosciences, psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, education, and spirituality.” Also got to croak out some “Zombie Blues” with David Chalmers, Stuart Hammeroff, Gino Yu and a few others.
For event details see: www.asiaconsciousness.org/events.html
Ucluelet, British Columbia -March 21, 2009
Had a fine time at the Pacific Rim Whale Festival, where I was invited to speak on animal consciousness and the interior world of whales. For a description of the talk click here.