Dosed? Book Talk with Barbara Browning and Sébastien Régnier

Join the Department of Performance Studies as we celebrate our own Professor Barbara Browning and Sébastien Régnier on the publication of their new book Dosed?

Dosed? (Emphatic Thumb Press, 2026) is a co-authored memoir that traces the psychedelic journeys of two collaborators (in life and art) of a certain age—a Frenchman with a ravenous, lifelong appetite for kaleidoscopic experiences, and an American woman who largely eschewed drugs until, well, recently. Across a series of braided essays, they explore their separate paths through psychedelic experimentation—from the communes of 1970s France to contemporary cannabutter cuisine. Along the way, they reflect on love, loss, aging, consciousness, and what it means to live a psychedelic life over decades.

The book has a companion musical LP, Funny Days, recorded under Browning and Régnier's performing moniker, Imre Lodbrog et Sa Petite Amie. At this event, they'll be reading from the text, and performing a couple of tunes.

Registration is required to attend this event. 

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Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning live at the edge of The Great Vly in the Hudson Valley, where they make books, music, and other things. She's published three highly lauded novels (The Correspondence Artist, I’m Trying to Reach You and The Gift) and numerous works of nonfiction (most recently The Miniaturists). Sébastien Régnier is an award-winning screenwriter, singer/songwriter, and psychonaut (that last career was not what he got the awards for, but maybe he should have). Together, they previously published Who the Hell is Imre Lodbrog and The Terrarium. 

Régnier and Browning perform music together as Imre Lodbrog et sa Petite Amie, and their recordings are available on all major streaming platforms, including an EP specially recorded to accompany this book, titled Funny Days.