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 |
Morning Coffee and ISTP Business Meeting Location: Student Union |
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| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Panel: Affect, Uncertainty and Social Life in Times of Crisis Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Tim Corcoran Philosophical Dimensions and Complexities of Suicide: Rethinking Conventional Prevention Strategies Visualizing the self in everyday life: Children’s perspectives on life during crisis Relational uncertainty: making it through the darkness Towards an Affective History of the present |
Panel: Psychotherapy as Political Technology Location: North Hall 107 Chair: Kelso Cratsley Whose Injury? Moral Injury, Just War and the Demand for Accountability in an Age of Narcissism Unacademic Clinical Psychology: Theoretical Foundations of Evidence-Based Standards and Their Role in the Global Gatekeeping of Alternative Paradigms Theories of Psychotherapy as Social and Political Technology From Pathology to Potency: The Carl Rogers Axis and the Philosophical Foundation of Counseling |
Double symposium Part I: Knowledge, Action, Care? Ecocentric Psychological Research for the Anthropocene Location: North Hall 108* link to join Chair: Luca Tateo Chair: Niklas Alexander Chimirri Knowledge, action, care? Ecocentric psychological research for the Anthropocene Part I Presentations of the Symposium Unpolitical nature Theory as a function of indeterminate becomings: theorizing metabolic relations in the darkness of energy Meeting the other in staged nature: a dialogical perspective on interspecies encounters Towards an ecocentric psychology (ONLINE) |
Panel: Narratives of Work, Teaching, and Memory Location: North Hall 110* link to join Chair: Kari Kragh Blume Dahl Informal Workplace Learning of Newcomer Baristas in Third Wave Coffee Shops of New York Memory, Family, and Reparation in Contexts of Enforced Disappearance: Intergenerational Narratives as a Psychosocial-Political Practice “The person and the profession”: personal-professional journeys into teaching for Danish school teachers Integrating geosystems into Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (ONLINE) |
| Symposium: The Art of Field Tripping Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Tomoaki Imamichi The Art of Field Tripping Presentations of the Symposium The Joys and Miseries of Walking and Public Transit in New York City Green Infrastructure through an Environmental Justice Lens in Gowanus Somatic Superfund Walking Tour Street Art, Scholarship and Activism |
Double-Symposium Part I: Theorizing Transformative Change Across Levels of Praxis Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Line Lerche Mørck Chair: Paul Stenner Double-Symposium: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis (1) Presentations of the Symposium Counter-hegemonic alternatives: Elaborating the development across theoretical disciplines and fields of practice Counter-hegemonic alternatives of social youth work in marginalized urban areas (ONLINE Collective transformative agency in differential social spaces of boundary youth work |
Panel: Politics, Resistance, and Alternative Epistemologies Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Katerina Flora Mapping Dark Times: The Declarative Mapping Sentence as a Framework for Socio-Political Engagement in Theoretical Psychology Re-membering Resistance: Political Remembrance after the 2022 Student Uprising at the Department of Psychology, UCPH Surrealism and madness: an approach to madness and the absurd in the surrealist movement |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30am - 1:30pm |
Panel: Practices of World-Making: Image, Materiality, and Resistance in Dark Times Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Tine Jensen Imaging in the Shadows: Medical Photography, Algorithmic Ontology, and the Politics of Visual Theory (ONLINE) Crafting resistance and change Walking through foodscapes: Epistemological and theoretical reflections on food and walking as qualitative practices for world-making “I’d never have thought’: Hope and hopelessness in a folksong and in front of AI (ONLINE) |
Panel: Rethinking Experience: Voice, Temporality, and Meaning in Psychology Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Jaakko Hilppö Patient Voices in Psychiatry: Historical Practices and Theoretical Perspectives Chronopolitics of Back-propagation and the Resistance of Psychic Duration to Algorithmic Urgency (ONLINE) Falling asleep and waking up: explorations of liminality and the human consciousness The Psychology of Allegories in Dark Times |
Double symposium Part II: Knowledge, Action, Care? Ecocentric Psychological Research for the Anthropocene Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Luca Tateo Chair: Niklas Alexander Chimirri Knowledge, action, care? Ecocentric psychological research for the Anthropocene Part II Presentations of the Symposium Young People’s Learning Ecologies for Climate Transformations In Senegal, Brazil, and Finland: a Decolonial Approach Human-animal relations in early years settings: towards a world-caring pedagogy World-making under conditions of precarity Helpful knowledge, helping action, caring with? Why psychologists need to care with the Planet (and not only about or for it) |
Panel: Imagination, Mortality, Teleology Location: North Hall 110* link to join Chair: Andre Sales Theorizing Mortality as Resistance: Death Anxiety, Meaning, and the Ethical Imagination of Dark Times (ONLINE) Seeking the "morning star": teleology in Critical Psychology for contested futures Political Imagination in Dark Times: Poison or Cure? |
| Invited Symposium: Keep on Keeping on: Reflections Theory from Cultural Workers and Researchers-in-Practice Working in Community Arts With Children and Young People Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Melissa Nolas Keep on Keeping on: Reflections from Cultural Workers and Researchers-in-Practice Working in Community Arts With Children and Young People Presentations of the Symposium Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people |
Double-Symposium Part II: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Line Lerche Mørck Chair: Paul Stenner Double-Symposium: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis (second part) Presentations of the Symposium Transformative pedagogy in dark times – creating conditions for co-creation of youth counter-narratives Co-Production of Safe Spaces in an Unsafe World? Re-/ Presenting Positioning - A Video Production |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch, Open Mic, and Farewell Location: Student Union |
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