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 |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: AI and Posthumanist 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 Power– between subject-scientific and post-humanistic theorizing |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Care, Liberation, and Reimagining Collective Life 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 Reimagining Democratic Infrastructures in Rural (former East) Germany: Art-based narratives and their impact on community mobilization Out of Sight, Out of Scope: Rural Communities in the Margins of Psych-Disciplines |
| 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. Otherwising Parkinson’s Temporalities: Art-Research Documentary Film as Experimental Collaboration |
| 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 |

