Rethinking the Political Agency of Theoretical Psychology

Biljana Stanković

Socio-Economic Precariousness and Psychological Functions of Neoliberal Ideology: False Consciousness Among the Disadvantaged in Dark Times of Crisis (ONLINE)

Severin Hornung, Thomas Höge, Christine Unterrainer, Lisa Seubert

The Politics of Observation: How Psychological Theory Constructs Its Own Darkness

Swen Koerner, Mario Staller

The Political Epistemology of Isabelle Stengers: an interesting way to think psychology beyond the traditional epistemology (ONLINE)

Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira

Aesthetic Act as an Existential Confrontation to Trauma's Incurablity

Kris {Di} Wu

Beyond Words: Theorizing Intersubjective and Multimodal Articulations of Suffering and Resistance

Monique Kaulertz

A Social Justice Art Exhibition as an Affective, Potentially Transformative Site

Katie Fuller

Situated Inequality – institutional processes of inequality across education, unemployment and mental health.

Chair(s): Maja Røn-Larsen

Presentations of the Symposium

Situated inequality in children’s institutional everyday life

Maja Røn-Larsen

Questioning your darlings: (em)power(ment) and (in)equality in user involvement

Sofie Pedersen

Situated (in)dignity: exploring experiences of inequality from the margins

Sabina Pultz

We Were Never Meant to Be Held: Black Girl/Femme Being in the Wake of School

Tasha Grant

The strength of a constellation: vulnerability, autonomy, and recognition as political criticism of therapeutic cultures in universities (ONLINE)

Adriana Kaulino

Psychedelics and neonihilism: Connectedness in a meaningless world

Patric Plesa, Rotem Petranker

“Hell is other people:” Theorizing the (negative) dialectics of relationality

Chair(s): Thomas Teo

Presentations of the Symposium

Hell Is Us: Interrelational Ethics, Colonial Violence, and the Courage of Vulnerability in Dark Times

Emese Ilyés

Coping with My Nonrelational Relationality

Barbara Held

The Power of Negative Thinking: Metaphoric Modes of Knowing in Psychological Practice

Fernando Quigua, Joshua Clegg

On the Conditions for People Becoming Hell to Other People

Thomas Teo

Hybrid scenarios of activity: building bridges of humanity in dark times (ONLINE)

Beatriz Macías-Gómez-Estern, José María Seco-Martínez

Creating Open Community Spaces for Innovative Child Support: Insights from a Character Design Competition in Japan

Hideaki Matsushima

Use of Custom Methodology to Shine New Light on Negotiation of “Activist” Roles, Community, and Identities Within Queer Individuals

Lina Jacob

The Landscapes of War and Conflict: Art Under Historical Pressure

Chair(s): Luka Lucic

Presentations of the Symposium

Mythologizing Reality in Times of Crisis: Modernism in Interwar L’viv

Karolina Koczynska

The Object of Myth: Georges Bataille’s Promethean Virtue

Josh Bowker

Royal War Painter Peter Howson and His Visual Representations of the Bosnian War

Luka Lucic

The Invention of the Unconscious in Egypt: A History of Psychoanalysis

Robert Beshara

Against the 'Sinthome:' Theorizing Art Beyond Self-Naming

Dylan Lackey

Theorizing Danger: The Officer Safety Paradox

Mario Staller, Swen Koerner

Post-Woke Sexuality and the New Erotic

Ken Russell

Depicting the unthinkable: Young people’s drawings of war

Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage

The (In)visibility of Pre-death Grief in Youth Life

Anne Vinther Søndergaard

Alone in the Dark - children's bereavement by suicide as a teacher of theory

Trudy Meehan

Theorizing from and within critical participatory action research (CPAR)

Chair(s): Nora Ruck, Sara Paloni, Anoel Alshuth

Presentations of the Symposium

Empowerment Beyond Individual Strength: Reflexivity, Politics and Narrativity in Participatory Action Research

Lena Ludwig, Stefan Thomas, Linda Zirkler

Dark Listening as participatory action research: Discussing pilot data

Johanna Motzkau

The Triple Shift of intersectionally marginalized individuals: Theorizing the entanglement of wage labour, care labour, and administrative burdens from critical participatory action research with migrant women (ONLINE)

Nora Ruck, Charlotta Sippel, Iris Laner, Ana Mijić, Ivo Ponocny

Discussion of papers

Sara Paloni

Historiography as Resistance: Art and the Politics of Intercommunal Relations in Mandate Palestine

Maayan Hilel

Complex Futurity: Neuroqueer Sense-Making, Systems Thinking, and Media Art

Allison Leigh Holt

Art as a Medium of Theoretical Self- and World-Critique in Dark Times. A Morphological Analysis of Goya’s “Black Paintings” and Their Contemporary Relevance

Björn Zwingmann

Theorization & Discard in Dark Times

Chair(s): Donald Brown

Presentations of the Symposium

The Politics of Theoretical Discard: A Case Study

Donald Brown

Workin’ With Spooks: Finding Life at the End of Theory and Time

Chinyere Okafor

Theoretical Nutrient Cycling: On Composting Liberatory Movement Work Rooted in Benevolent Colonialism

Jesi Taylor

Exploring young childrens (learning) engagements with each other and with things in and across nursery and familylife

Simone Stegeager

Troubles and Issues of Family Life

Allan Westerling

The Shaping of the Parasocial Self: Digitizing Social Mechanisms and Their Meanings for Subjects and Society in Times of Increasing Individualization and Loneliness

Johanna L Degen

Art is no tool (ONLINE)

Chair(s): Lia Lordelo

Presentations of the Symposium

Relearning the meaning of Art: in day's where we tend to believe to know all about Art (ONLINE)

Marc Antoine Campill

Can Art Save Psychology? Or Is That the Wrong Question? (ONLINE)

Nandita Chaudhary

Social coreographies in contemporary Brazil: transforming social and political order (ONLINE)

Lia Lordelo