Psychedelics in Society and Culture

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event A Conversation with Clinicians Julie Holland, Liam Modlin, and Franklin King About the Event Psychedelics are not like most other mental health interventions. They expose assumptions about...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: Shayla Love, Jane C. Hu, Rachel Nuwer, and Josh Hardman About the Event Mainstream media once framed psychedelics as dangerous, deviant, or socially corrosive. But now, in the...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: Emily Witt ( The New Yorker) & Michelle Lhooq ( Rave New World) About the Event The rave, like every era of psychedelic counterculture, has long presented a hopeful vision of...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speakers: David Yaden, Johns Hopkins and Nicolas Langlitz, The New School About the Event As psychedelics approach mainstream medicine, the question of what they mean for our culture has...

Psychedelics in Society and Culture The Harvard Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture is excited to announce that the fourth annual Psychedelic Intersections conference will be held at Harvard Divinity School on April 10-11, 2026. Building on the...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Speaker: Dr. Martha Newson, Cognitive Anthropologist About the Event How do group dynamics in different contexts mediate psychedelic experiences? How do intense experiences work to create...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event A multidisciplinary conference, inspired by Hotel Nirvana, a play about Timothy Leary’s encounter with Mexico and mushrooms, brings together theater, research on drugs, law, and war with a...

This event has been canceled. If able to be rescheduled, we will update our website and social media with the new date as soon as possible. Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event A Conversation with Clinicians Julie Holland, Liam...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event Moderator: Ashwin Budden Panelists: Amber Capone, Jonathan Dickinson, Yann Guignon, and W. Bryan Hubbard About the Event As part of the Museum of Science’s yearlong focus on Revolutionary...

Psychedelics in Society & Culture | Initiative-Supported Event About the Event Neuroscientist Leor Roseman & Cultural Historian Mike Jay will discuss the various roles that psychedelics play in cultural history and the sociopolitical dynamics that make...