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 112* |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Dialogism, Subjectivity and the Fragility of Social Bonds Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Meike Watzlawik Dialogism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Contexts of Entrapment Unified Libertarian Theory: Genesis Reconstructing Home: From Hypergeneralized Feeling to Dialogical Negotiation Languaging in Dark Times: Maturana, Normativity, and the Fragility of Social Membership (ONLINE) |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Crisis Narratives Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Alexandra Stamson From Collective Stories to Story-Collections: COVID-19 Narratives as Artefacts between Documentation and Creative Transformation of Crisis Multilevel Narrative Engagement in Times of Crisis (ONLINE) Narrativizing Possibility: How fiction can help in our self-understanding Exile, Storytelling, and Civic Life: Voices of Young Adults from Eastern Europe |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Conceptualizing Care in Times of Crisis: Politics, Emotions, and Transformative Practices Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Dorte Kousholt Conceptualizing Care in Times of Crisis: Politics, Emotions, and Transformative Practices Presentations of the Symposium Care as Foundation: Toward a Culturally Rooted Practice of Development and Education Breaking the Neoliberal Cycle: Reconceptualizing care through activist agency Schoolchildren’s Emotions as Carriers of Knowledge and Mediators of Agency – Challenging the Rationalist Ethos of Emotion Regulation in Western Education Researching with Care? Transformative Research Collaboration in Times of Crisis |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Shaping the Relational Self Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Johanna L Degen Exploring young childrens (learning) engagements with each other and with things in and across nursery and familylife The Shaping of the Parasocial Self: Digitizing Social Mechanisms and Their Meanings for Subjects and Society in Times of Increasing Individualization and Loneliness Creating Open Community Spaces for Innovative Child Support: Insights from a Character Design Competition in Japan Hybrid scenarios of activity: building bridges of humanity in dark times (ONLINE) |
