Call for Speakers – Psychedelic Culture 2027: Beyond Consensus

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The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is excited to announce the Psychedelic Culture 2027: Beyond Consensus Conference.

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On March 11-14th, we will gather for a 2-day conference at the Brava Theater for Women in the Arts in San Francisco, CA, a day of workshops and a day of integration.

We are currently accepting speaker abstract submissions for spots in panels with pre-selected topics for the 2 conference days (March 12 & 13) only. You can find all conference details here and submissions details below.

Important dates

  • Submission Deadline: October 10th, 2026, at 9:00pm PT
  • Notification of Acceptance: November 15th, 2026
  • Conference Dates: March 11-13, 2027
  • March 11th – Day of workshops (tickets for these offerings must be purchased separately if you would like to participate)
  • March 11th – Speakers and Sponsors Dinner in the evening
  • March 12th – Conference Day 1
  • March 13th – Conference Day 2

If your submission is selected for the conference, we recommend that you be in the Bay Area between March 11th-14th to attend the speakers’ and sponsors’ dinner, all conference days, workshops, afterparty, and integration day.

Submission guidelines

We are looking for speakers submissions related to:

  • Environment, Nature, and Ecology: i.e., bioconservation, climate change, ecopolitics & anthropocene critiques, nature-relatedness & multispecies kinship, ecological grief, climate anxiety, psychedelic-assisted processing, biopiracy & benefit sharing, psychedelic “eco”-tourism, psychedelics as a bridge for non-human perspectives, etc
  • Intergenerational Dialogues: i.e., youth and psychedelics, elders, cross-generational analysis, time-honored traditions & contemporary shifts, generational trauma and family systems work with psychedelics, grandmother medicines & matrilineal transmission of ceremonial knowledge, etc
  • Ethics, Risks, and Harm Reduction: i.e., ethical care, moral & cultural sensitivity, accountability & safety, screening protocols, challenging psychedelic experiences & de-escalation strategies, consent frameworks for altered states of consciousness, power dynamics in patient-facilitator relationships, etc
  • Grassroots and Community Resilience: i.e., traditional practices & knowledge, Indigenous advocacy, culturally specific spaces for BIPOC and underrepresented communities, biosocial relations, psychedelic tourism and commodification of psychoactive substances, Indigenous diasporas & psychedelic healing for migrants, etc
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Healing: i.e., psychedelic churches, shamanism, sensory experience, spiritual traditions & the sense of transcendence, traumatic stress, relief therapies, religious exercise, belief systems & political alignment, ontological perspectives, mental health, etc
  • AI and Technology: i.e., molecule design, brain mapping, patient tracking, custom dosing, tech-aided therapy, creation of educational material, integration & language models, etc

Abstracts should be between 150-250 words. Abstracts should be one paragraph only. They should summarize your work in this specific topic/field, perspective/lens, expertise, interest, and relevance to the topic, conference, and the current psychedelic plant medicine field.

Only 3-4 speakers will be selected for each panel (there will only be 5 CFS panels, so only 20 speakers max will be selected), making this a highly competitive selection process.

To support our mission of advancing psychedelic justice through curating critical conversations and uplifting the voices of women, queer people, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and the Global South in the field of psychedelics, we welcome abstracts from folks from diverse fields, backgrounds, and career stages.

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is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States, editor, project manager, consultant, and digital communications strategist. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. She is an executive member, editor-in-chief, and social media editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). She is the Managing Editor for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines and Associate Editor for Environmental Humanities. Closer to home, she is the President of the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society, a Coordinating Team member of Showing Up for Racial Justice Saskatoon-Treaty Six, and a Conservation Advisory Committee member for the Meewasin Valley Authority. She focuses on developing digital techniques and communications that bridge the divide between academia and the general public in order to democratize knowledge access. You can find out more about her and her freelance services at jessicamdewitt.com.

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