"Tripping on Utopia" and Locavore Research with History Professor Ben Breen (Center for Archival Research and Training)

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"Tripping on Utopia" and Locavore Research with History Professor Ben Breen (Center for Archival Research and Training)

Date:: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Time:: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:: Special Collections
Location:: McHenry Library
Categories:: Book Event CART Commons Presentation Special Collections & Archives

Join UCSC History professor Ben Breen, who will discuss his forthcoming book, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science, and his research using archival materials at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Breen has been at UCSC since 2017. His work includes the histories of the Portuguese, Spanish, and British empires, as well as the history of science, medicine, globalization, and the impacts of technological change.

Selected archives from UCSC Special Collections & Archives will be available for browsing.

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science will be published by Grand Central in January of 2024. More information and pre-order link are available on Breen’s website.

Hosted by the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART). Learn more about CART by visiting our website and joining the mailing list.

Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.