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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JUNE 27 - 29, 2024
8th Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society
Join us, June 27, 28, and 29, 2024, for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. The meeting theme is Psychoactive Paradigm Shift? Historicizing Drug/Alcohol Policies and Practices. The event brings together 150 of the world's top historians and scholars of alcohol and other drugs. Held most recently in Mexico City (2022) and Shanghai (2020), Buffalo's 2024 meeting provides an opportunity to showcase UB's research and accomplishments in the addictions space. Participants will explore historical perspectives on a time of US and global challenges to drug wars and pharmaceutical patent systems.
From the global movement to decriminalize cannabis and other drugs to the “psychedelic renaissance,” the 21st century has witnessed dramatic transformations in how people make, circulate, regulate, use, and police drugs, medicines, and alcohol. How can history help us make sense of these changes? What are the precedents and antecedents, and what (if anything) is entirely new? How can analysis of the rich history of drugs and empire, global capitalism, state building/formation, racialization and gendering, social movements, science and medicine, religion, and other essential developments guide our understanding of modern shifts? What role should history—and historians—play in today’s debates?
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Event: Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society
Abstract: The Alcohol and Drug History Society (ADHS), founded in 1979, is the leading global organization for interdisciplinary scholars interested in the history of psychoactive substances--legal and illegal--including production, commerce, use, science, policy, politics, and culture. Members research and write about law and social policy, and also intervene in it directly in a variety of ways, including serving as expert witnesses (in tobacco and opioid litigation, for example) and advising Congress (on generic drugs, the opioid crisis, and other issues).
The biennial meeting brings together 150 of the world's top historians and scholars of alcohol and other drugs. It was held most recently in Mexico City (2022) and Shanghai (2020). The 2024 Buffalo meeting will be an opportunity to showcase UB's research and accomplishments in the addictions space, and to explore historical perspectives on a time of US and global challenges to drug wars and pharmaceutical patent systems.
JUNE 27 - 29, 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
955 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203
Conference program, participants, and further details forthcoming via The Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS).
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