ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Coffee and Registration Location: Student Union |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Keynote Address: Alexandra Rutherford - Off the couches, into the streets! Location: Student Union “Off the couches, into the streets!” Psychology and social change in the long 1960s |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Political Subjectivity in a Fractured World Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Guro Brokke Omland The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change to Promote Anti-Racist Behaviors in Medical Settings Worlding practices and political subjecthood in exile: Analytical approaches to investigate how young Ukrainian refugees in Norway negotiate their developmental projects Cognitive dissonance at the end of the world Autoaffectivity in Socio-Ecological Transition Processes – The Car as Affect-Symbolic Lynchpin of Status and Power (ONLINE) |
Symposium: Listening darkly, otherwise and for human rights: Mobilising the Emancipatory Potential of Listening in Dark Times Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Johanna Motzkau Listening darkly, otherwise and for human rights: Mobilising the emancipatory potential of listening in dark times Presentations of the Symposium Reclaiming Dark: Introducing Dark Listening, a participatory art-based research method to transform cultures of listening in crisis Stage Foley as Sonic Fiction: Learning to Listen Otherwise Listening for our own mistakes in hearing: attending to what we can hear in dark times tbc |
Panel: Psychoanalysis and Ideology Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Sonja Janičić Negotiating the Universal and the Particular in (Socio)Cultural Psychodynamics: Implications for Critical Praxis Between Universal and Contingent: Ideologies through the Lens of the Sibling Function The Neoliberal “Subject Supposed to Know”: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective Metatheory and Social Justice: Reimagining Social Psychology through Humanism and the Liberatory agenda of Eric Fromm and B R Ambedkar |
| Invited Symposium: Positioning Theory, Narrative, and Power Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Michael Bamberg Chair: Carolin Demuth Positioning Theory, Narrative, and Power Presentations of the Symposium Reconsidering positioning theory Positioning Maternal Responsibility and Agency in Hierarchical Educational Contexts Positioning in citizenship talk on sustainability policy making “I need 11,000 votes – Give me a break” – Positioning, Conversational Implicature, and Plausible Deniability. |
Panel: Crisis Narratives Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Alexandra Stamson From Collective Stories to Story-Collections: COVID-19 Narratives as Artefacts between Documentation and Creative Transformation of Crisis Multilevel Narrative Engagement in Times of Crisis (ONLINE) Narrativizing Possibility: How fiction can help in our self-understanding Exile, Storytelling, and Civic Life: Voices of Young Adults from Eastern Europe |
Symposium: Introducing the International Network Psychology in Education (INPsyEd) Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Tim Corcoran Chair: Dorte Kousholt Introducing the International Network Psychology in Education (INPsyEd) Presentations of the Symposium Enabling Anti-Racism in Educational Psychology From outrageous homework assignments and feelings of imprisonment to calls for respect and human rights: Students' perspectives on school Structure as a Psychological-Political Force in Danish Education Educational Psychological Collaboration in Schools: Displacing Problems or Collaboration Across Contexts |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Collective Lecture Hour over Lunch - with Jaan Valsiner and others Location: North Hall 106* link to join |
Politics over Lunch - with Mark Freeman and others Location: Student Union |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Care, Liberation, and Reimagining Collective Life Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Amanda Almond Mujerista Narrative Therapy: An Integrative Framework For Decolonization, Liberation, and Healing Hope & Hesitancy: Reimagining Ethics in Pediatric Palliative Care Transformative Art Space for Physicians to Promote Anti-Racist Action Reimagining Democratic Infrastructures in Rural (former East) Germany: Art-based narratives and their impact on community mobilization Out of Sight, Out of Scope: Rural Communities in the Margins of Psych-Disciplines |
Pitch an Idea: Childhood, Schooling, and Pedagogy of Inequality Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Michelle Mari Sommer Theorizing Situated Inequality: Institutional Conditions of Participation in Early Childhood Rethinking Psychological Theory under Conditions of Social Inequality: The Case of Academic Self-Efficacy (ONLINE) Craft-Based Schooling and the Formation of Self: A Situated Psychological Inquiry into Alternative Education in Denmark Children’s experiences of screen ambivalence in digitalised childhood The Fluid as Theory: Visual Pedagogy Against Binary Thinking |
Panel: Between Structure and Experience: Rethinking Social and Material Worlds Location: North Hall 108* link to join Chair: Alice E Ripberger Milgram, Winogrand, and the City: Urban Social Psychology Through a New Lens Tracing Value Enactment in Practice - Unravelling the Socio-Material Infrastructures shaping Mnemonic Mediation in Austria (ONLINE) Structures of Care: Architectural and Therapeutic Parallels in Kahn and Rogers |
| Pitch an Idea: Digitality, Narrative and Hybrid Subjectivities Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Selina Staniczek Algorithmic Dreamwork: Freud, Lacan, and the Visual Unconscious of AI Materiality-Sensitive Analysis of Online Interviews: Ageist Stereotypes and Ethics in Workplace Digital Learning Legends of Hybrid Brooklyn Consciousness Under Constraint: Rethinking Identity Through the Lived Experience of Intersex Migrants Rewriting Foundations: Documentary Poetry and the Reimagining of Political Narratives through the Case of the 1777 New York State Constitution |
Panel: Subject Formation, the Gaze, and the Politics of Desire Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Ken Russell The Eternal Dissolve: De-Programming the Gaze as a Theory of Subject Formation across Psychoanalytic and Islamic Models Post-Woke Sexuality and the New Erotic Against the 'Sinthome:' Theorizing Art Beyond Self-Naming |
Panel: Subjectivation under Capitalism Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Johanna L Degen Mainstreaming Sex Work through Feminist Frameworks: Subscription Platforms (Onlyfans) and the (Self-)Subjugation of Subjects within Platform Capitalism STRIP CLUBS AND THE WORK OF PLEASURE: HOW CAN PSYCHOLOGY RE-APPROACH ADULT ENTERTAINMENT? NARRATING POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Theorizing Research Methods Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Laura McGrath Dynamic meta-derivatives condensed between qualitative research and theoretical psychology Proposing Figuration Theory as a Creative Research Method for “Theorizing in Dark Times” Full b(lo)odied theory: Reflections from an archival analysis of the turn to language. Otherwising Parkinson’s Temporalities: Art-Research Documentary Film as Experimental Collaboration |
Panel: Narrative Resistance and Identity Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Claire Park The Mountains Travel- Stations of Migrant Territorialities (ONLINE) Moving beyond the master narrative: the transformative potential of travelling memories and alternative narratives The Violence of Categories: Korean American Ambiguity as Resistance to Cultural Rigidity Theorizing Social Philosophy from Contemporary Dance to Self-Critically Evaluate Democratic Political Practices |
Symposium: Thinking with Matter: New Materialisms in Psychology Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Rosa Traversa Chair: Thomas Teo Thinking with Matter: New Materialisms in Psychology Presentations of the Symposium “There is no outside nature”: How Vicki Kirby reformulates new materialism amid social-constructionism and essentialism “Dressing otherwise”: Performative new materialisms and the material entanglements of subjectivity New Materialism, Critical Discursive Psychology, and Racialization New Materialism and the Fractalization of Psychological Knowledge |
| Symposium: Are Dark Times Looming for Universities? Student Dialogue with AI Chatbots and Its Implications for Learning and Critical Education Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Cathrine Hasse Chair: Ernst Schraube Are Dark Times Looming for Universities? Student Dialogue with AI Chatbots and Its Implications for Learning and Critical Education Presentations of the Symposium Cultivating Relational Socratic Ignorance (RSI) in Learning with Generative AI From Moral Panic to Transformative Activist Pedagogy: The Role of Student Agency in Reimagining Education in an Era of AI Tentacular Learning and the Missing Word-to-World Connection of AI-Generated Text |
Panel: Rethinking Mind, Meaning, and Method Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Kyoko Murakami cognitive dissonance and cognitive polyphasia: The relational and dialogical making and remaking of meaning and deliberation Theorizing Diagnosis-Seeking: Process, Agency, Contexts Cognitive Development as a Cultural-Historical Process: A Critical Re-reading of Alexander Luria’s Foundational Work |
Panel: Beyond Critique: Reimagining Psychology in Times of Crisis Location: North Hall 113* link to join Chair: Anne Morin When sanity returns, we’ll still need to clean up the mess: Reflections on balancing critical resistance with aspirational vision Theorizing in Crisis: The Conceptual Ghost and the New Materialist Agency Psychology as Politics instead of Psychology as Police: Re-thinking Theory and Research Through the Lens of Jacques Rancière (ONLINE) Changing the system from within - reorganization intersectoral collaboration between school psychological counseling and psychiatry in early intervention |
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