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 110* |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: The Politics of Recognition Location: North Hall 110* link to join Chair: Patric Plesa We Were Never Meant to Be Held: Black Girl/Femme Being in the Wake of School The strength of a constellation: vulnerability, autonomy, and recognition as political criticism of therapeutic cultures in universities (ONLINE) Psychedelics and neonihilism: Connectedness in a meaningless world Use of Custom Methodology to Shine New Light on Negotiation of “Activist” Roles, Community, and Identities Within Queer Individuals |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
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) |
| 11:30am - 1:30pm |
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? |

