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Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture Announces Funding Recipients
Celebrating its successful launch, the Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, an interdisciplinary effort that reaches across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School, has named its first group of funding recipients.
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Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture Announces Funding Recipients
Celebrating its successful launch, the Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, an interdisciplinary effort that reaches across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School, has named its first group of funding...
Posting your opinion on social media won’t save democracy, but this might
Tanner Lectures explore models of engaged citizenry from ancient agoras to modern megachurches.
Thinking about having a baby? Even during climate crisis?
Heather Houser, who studies the intersection of climate and reproduction, says it’s difficult for researchers to track the reason couples choose to go childless, noting there’s often a big gap between intentions with fertility and actions ultimately taken...
Front of mind for Michael Pollan: psychedelics
Author with an experimental side says new generation of researchers will inform medicinal, religious, recreational use.
Creation of ‘genre-defying, sort-of-uncategorizable’ books
“Because I’m a British boy, there is no getting away from the First World War. I mean it’s there, every level, it’s all around you.” Writer Geoff Dyer talks with Maya Jasanoff about history, memory, and life on the USS George H.W. Bush with 5,000 new...
Harvard launches new Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture
The study, an interdisciplinary effort across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School, seeks to transform the psychedelics research landscape by producing cutting-edge scholarship and convening faculty, students...
Weaving refugee’s life into histories of U.S., Vietnam
Pulitzer-winning novelist, academic Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss colonization, otherness in Norton Lectures
Carvalho appointed interim director of Mahindra Humanities Center
Carvalho will serve as Director for 2023-24 while the center’s current director, Suzannah Clark, is on sabbatical. Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, has been named Interim Director of...
Combining Earth science, Native knowledge in climate change battle
Margaret Redsteer will draw on her research on tribal lands to discuss barriers and solutions to adaptation, resilience at Tanner Lectures.
Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover
On 50th anniversary, former prisoners, activists recall when inmates ran prison without incident during guard strike.
