ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: North Hall 106 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: AI politics Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Paul Mossner The necessity of misunderstanding: How unconscious mistranslations generate what AI cannot AI, Subjection, and the Politics of the Informational World On the dangers of anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Place-Making and Care Location: North Hall 106 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 |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Migration and Exile Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Guro Brokke Omland Exile, Storytelling, and Civic Life: Voices of Young Adults from Eastern Europe 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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Healing, Liberation, and Counter-Hegemonic Practice 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 |
| 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. |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Critical Theory and Critical Agency in Psychology Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Swen Koerner Rethinking the Political Agency of Theoretical Psychology Socio-Economic Precariousness and Psychological Functions of Neoliberal Ideology: False Consciousness Among the Disadvantaged in Dark Times of Crisis (ONLINE) 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) |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Beyond the Sinthome: Erotics, Danger, and Art Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Ken Russell Against the 'Sinthome:' Theorizing Art Beyond Self-Naming Theorizing Danger: The Officer Safety Paradox Post-Woke Sexuality and the New Erotic |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Embodied and Material Practices of Resistance Location: North Hall 106 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 |

