Organizer: Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions

Psychedelic Intersections 2025, hosted by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, is a one-day academic conference held at Harvard University on February 15, 2025. We are calling for papers from scholars and/or practitioners whose work speaks to one or more of the panel areas.

See link for online submission details. Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024.
If you will need a visa to attend the conference, submit by October 15 to ensure adequate time for visa processing.

About the conference: The conference brings together interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersection of psychedelics and spirituality. Following last year’s popular Psychedelic Intersections: Cross Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred conference, the 2025 conference features three research tracks:

• Psychedelic Chaplaincy

• Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions

• Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Transcendent

The conference asks: How can religious studies and spiritual care inform the Psychedelic “Renaissance”? What are the best practices for psychedelic chaplaincy? How can spiritual care be best integrated into psychedelic use in recreational and religious settings? How can psychedelic studies build interdisciplinary and collaborative community across traditions, cultures, and modalities? In what ways do the histories and the presents of Indigenous traditions present new relationships with the more-than-human world? Is aesthetics uniquely suited to understand and convey the activity of a psychedelic body? How can art foster and induce transcendent experiences? How can art be used in psychedelic settings as a means of integration?