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 107* |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Imagination in Dark Times Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Oliver Clifford Pedersen On Humanity in Dark Times. Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Lessing and Their Significance for Political Psychology (ONLINE) Comparative Political Theory in Dark Times: Non-Western Voices in Crisis Thinking Imagination in Dark Times (ONLINE) Kollwitz and Riefenstahl: Aesthetics and Political Discourses in German Modernity. |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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 |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Articulation, Trauma and Ideology in Dark Times Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Kris (Di) Wu Aesthetic Act as an Existential Confrontation to Trauma's Incurablity Beyond Words: Theorizing Intersubjective and Multimodal Articulations of Suffering and Resistance Socio-Economic Precariousness and Psychological Functions of Neoliberal Ideology: False Consciousness Among the Disadvantaged in Dark Times of Crisis (ONLINE) The Healing Power of a Fantastic Metaphor: A Call to Radically Reform How We Primarily Describe People Currently Described as Autistic |
| 11:30am - 1:30pm |
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 |

