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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...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Garnette Cadogan In conversation with Teju Cole How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and...

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...

Speaker: Édouard Louis In Conversation with Tara K. Menon About the Speakers Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy , History of Violence , Who Killed My Father , A Woman’s Battles and Transformations , Change , Monique Escapes , and Collapse...

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...

Instruments Unearthed: Bioacoustics, Bio-Sonification, and Making Plants Musical Speaker: Cana McGhee, 2025-26 MHC Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow Respondent: Deirdre Loughridge Cana McGhee is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at...

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...