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 108 |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Black Spaces for Radical Generativity: Art, Environmental Justice, Reproductive Freedom, and Black Futurities Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Britney Moreira Chair: Michael Williams Black Spaces for Radical Generativity: Art, Environmental Justice, Reproductive Freedom, and Black Futurities Presentations of the Symposium Pathways to the Possible: Black Aesthetic World-Building and Radical Generativity in Brooklyn Black Radical Cosmologies for Reclaiming Science, Technology and Nature Wu-Stories: (Re)membering the Wu-Tang Clan as Critical Black History in Staten Island The Marion Experiment and the Lincoln Experiment: Is our future carceral or liberatory? |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Listening darkly, otherwise and for human rights: Mobilising the Emancipatory Potential of Listening in Dark Times Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Johanna Motzkau Listening darkly, otherwise and for human rights: Mobilising the emancipatory potential of listening in dark times Presentations of the Symposium Reclaiming Dark: Introducing Dark Listening, a participatory art-based research method to transform cultures of listening in crisis Stage Foley as Sonic Fiction: Learning to Listen Otherwise Listening for our own mistakes in hearing: attending to what we can hear in dark times tbc |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Thinking with Matter: New Materialisms in Psychology Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Rosa Traversa Chair: Thomas Teo Thinking with Matter: New Materialisms in Psychology Presentations of the Symposium “There is no outside nature”: How Vicki Kirby reformulates new materialism amid social-constructionism and essentialism “Dressing otherwise”: Performative new materialisms and the material entanglements of subjectivity New Materialism, Critical Discursive Psychology, and Racialization New Materialism and the Fractalization of Psychological Knowledge |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Situated Inequality – Institutional Processes of Inequality Across Education, Unemployment and Mental Health Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Maja Røn-Larsen Situated Inequality – institutional processes of inequality across education, unemployment and mental health. Presentations of the Symposium Situated inequality in children’s institutional everyday life Questioning your darlings: (em)power(ment) and (in)equality in user involvement Situated (in)dignity: exploring experiences of inequality from the margins |
| 11:30am - 1:30pm |
Double symposium Part II: Knowledge, Action, Care? Ecocentric Psychological Research for the Anthropocene Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Luca Tateo Chair: Niklas Alexander Chimirri Knowledge, action, care? Ecocentric psychological research for the Anthropocene Part II Presentations of the Symposium Young People’s Learning Ecologies for Climate Transformations In Senegal, Brazil, and Finland: a Decolonial Approach Human-animal relations in early years settings: towards a world-caring pedagogy World-making under conditions of precarity Helpful knowledge, helping action, caring with? Why psychologists need to care with the Planet (and not only about or for it) |
