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: Testimony, Moral Understanding, and Imagination Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Renata Strashnaya Understanding as a Moral Act: The politics of identity-understanding Imagination as Resistance: Theory, Creativity, and the Healing of Collective Trauma From Silence to Story: Centering Survivor Voices in Gender-Based Violence Research Threatening Feelings in Dark Times: Loneliness, Ressentiment, and Meta-Subjectivity in Fragmented Societies |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Narratives of Authority, Conspiracy and Social Order Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Ana Gantman From “Population Utilization” to “Replacement”: How Russian Conspiracy Narratives Weaponize Demographic Decline across Ideological Boundaries Conspiracy Theories as Dynamic Beliefs: A methodological critique Authoritarianism in action Careful & Contested Chronic Living |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Psychoanalysis and Ideology Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Sonja Janičić Negotiating the Universal and the Particular in (Socio)Cultural Psychodynamics: Implications for Critical Praxis Between Universal and Contingent: Ideologies through the Lens of the Sibling Function The Neoliberal “Subject Supposed to Know”: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective 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: Digitality, Narrative and Hybrid Subjectivities Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Selina Staniczek Algorithmic Dreamwork: Freud, Lacan, and the Visual Unconscious of AI Materiality-Sensitive Analysis of Online Interviews: Ageist Stereotypes and Ethics in Workplace Digital Learning Legends of Hybrid Brooklyn Consciousness Under Constraint: Rethinking Identity Through the Lived Experience of Intersex Migrants Rewriting Foundations: Documentary Poetry and the Reimagining of Political Narratives through the Case of the 1777 New York State Constitution |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Art, Resistance, and Futurity Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Maayan Hilel Historiography as Resistance: Art and the Politics of Intercommunal Relations in Mandate Palestine Complex Futurity: Neuroqueer Sense-Making, Systems Thinking, and Media Art Art as a Medium of Theoretical Self- and World-Critique in Dark Times. A Morphological Analysis of Goya’s “Black Paintings” and Their Contemporary Relevance A Social Justice Art Exhibition as an Affective, Potentially Transformative Site |

