ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: North Hall 106* |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Place-Making and Care Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Pernille Juhl Creating a Place for Caring: The Foundational Role of the Community Café Owner (ONLINE) Not my place (anymore)! – Resisting place-making and the implicit normativity of urban life (ONLINE) Micropolitics of Everyday Life: Narratives of Care, Social Inclusion and Welfare State Transformation Understanding the political economy of informal caregiving through arts-based approaches in Delhi, India: A proposal for a grounded theory study |
| 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) |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Collective Lecture Hour over Lunch - with Jaan Valsiner and others Location: North Hall 106* link to join |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Critical Theory and Critical Agency in Psychology Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Swen Koerner Rethinking the Political Agency of Theoretical Psychology The Politics of Observation: How Psychological Theory Constructs Its Own Darkness The Political Epistemology of Isabelle Stengers: an interesting way to think psychology beyond the traditional epistemology (ONLINE) Theorizing Danger: The Officer Safety Paradox |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Engendering Embodiment with Research on Disability and Neurodiversiy Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Tim Beck Engendering Embodiment with Research on Disability and Neurodiversity Presentations of the Symposium BODY AND BORDERS: What counts as pain and pleasure in chronic pain syndromes and physical disabilities Endurance for Life Projects: Competing narratives on resilience in the context of chronic pain (ONLINE) Participatory Research at the Intersection of Art, Performance, and Identity Reflections on doing participatory research as neurodivergent college students |
| 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) |

