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 107 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Belonging, Normativity and Power in Dark Times Location: North Hall 107 Chair: Peter Busch-Jensen Power– between subject-scientific and post-humanistic theorizing Languaging in Dark Times: Maturana, Normativity, and the Fragility of Social Membership (ONLINE) Threatening Feelings in Dark Times: Loneliness, Ressentiment, and Meta-Subjectivity in Fragmented Societies |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Imagination in Dark Times Location: North Hall 107 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) |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Neoliberalism and False Consciousness Location: North Hall 107 Chair: Chetan Sinha Cognitive dissonance at the end of the world Autoaffectivity in Socio-Ecological Transition Processes – The Car as Affect-Symbolic Lynchpin of Status and Power (ONLINE) Metatheory and Social Justice: Reimagining Social Psychology through Humanism and the Liberatory agenda of Eric Fromm and B R Ambedkar |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Childhood, Schooling, and Inequality as Lived Structure Location: North Hall 107 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 Craft-Based Schooling and the Formation of Self: A Situated Psychological Inquiry into Alternative Education in Denmark |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Narrative Resistance and Identity Location: North Hall 107 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Art, Trauma, and Suffering Location: North Hall 107 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 A Social Justice Art Exhibition as an Affective, Potentially Transformative Site |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Youth, Grief, and Crisis Representation Location: North Hall 107 Chair: Anne Vinther Søndergaard Depicting the unthinkable: Young people’s drawings of war The (In)visibility of Pre-death Grief in Youth Life Alone in the Dark - children's bereavement by suicide as a teacher of theory |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Panel: Psychotherapy as Political Technology Location: North Hall 107 Chair: Kelso Cratsley Whose Injury? Moral Injury, Just War and the Demand for Accountability in an Age of Narcissism Unacademic Clinical Psychology: Theoretical Foundations of Evidence-Based Standards and Their Role in the Global Gatekeeping of Alternative Paradigms Theories of Psychotherapy as Social and Political Technology |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Panel: Time, History, Liminality Location: North Hall 107 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 |

