High society: Mind-altering drugs in history and culture - Mike Jay

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January 31, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

October Gallery

24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL

London, WC1N 3AL

United Kingdom

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Website: Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness

The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lectures series presents:

High society: Mind-altering drugs in history and culture

Mike Jay

Tuesday, 31st January, 2012

October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL

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Entry £7 /£5 Concessions, Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start - Wine available

Drawing on themes and images from the exhibition he curated at the Wellcome gallery in 2010-11, Mike will survey humanity's engagement with psychoactive plants and chemicals and explore why 'drugs' have developed such a controversial image in the modern West.

Mike Jay is an author and curator who has written widely on the history and culture of drugs. His books include Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century, The Atmosphere of Heaven (on the discovery of nitrous oxide) and the illustrated cultural history, High Society.

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