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 108 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: How Can Decolonial Psychology Liberate Us and Heal Us From Dark Times Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Sunil Bhatia How can decolonial psychology liberate us and heal us from dark times Presentations of the Symposium How can decolonial psychology liberate us and heal us from dark times How can decolonial psychology liberate us and heal us from dark times How can decolonial psychology liberate and heal us from dark times? |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Invited Symposium: Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Wade Pickren Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity Presentations of the Symposium Decolonizing Knowledge: Towards Epistemic Pluralism Where is indigenous psychology headed in Brazil: a historical-philosophical investigation (ONLINE) Imagining Decolonial Methods as Liberatory Practices |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 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 tbc tbc |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Hybridity, Embodiment, and the Refusal of Binary Thinking Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Zohar Sitner Legends of Hybrid Brooklyn Consciousness Under Constraint: Rethinking Identity Through the Lived Experience of Intersex Migrants The Fluid as Theory: Visual Pedagogy Against Binary Thinking |
| 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Invited Symposium: Theorizing From and Within Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Nora Ruck Chair: Johanna Motzkau Theorizing from and within critical participatory action research (CPAR) Presentations of the Symposium Empowerment Beyond Individual Strength: Reflexivity, Politics and Narrativity in Participatory Action Research Dark Listening as participatory action research: Discussing pilot data The Triple Shift of intersectionally marginalized individuals: Theorizing the entanglement of wage labour, care labour, and administrative burdens from critical participatory action research with migrant women (ONLINE) Discussion of papers |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Double symposium Part I: 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 I Presentations of the Symposium Unpolitical nature Theory as a function of indeterminate becomings: theorizing metabolic relations in the darkness of energy Meeting the other in staged nature: a dialogical perspective on interspecies encounters Towards an ecocentric psychology (ONLINE) |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
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) |
