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 110 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Conspiracy and Authoritarian Narratives 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 |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Digital Lifeworlds, AI, and the Politics of Interpretation Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Selina Staniczek Algorithmic Dreamwork: Freud, Lacan, and the Visual Unconscious of AI Children’s experiences of screen ambivalence in digitalised childhood Materiality-Sensitive Analysis of Online Interviews: Ageist Stereotypes and Ethics in Workplace Digital Learning |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Art and Embodiment Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Tine Friis Theorizing Social Philosophy from Contemporary Dance to Self-Critically Evaluate Democratic Political Practices Dancing dialogism (ONLINE) Otherwising Parkinson’s Temporalities: Art-Research Documentary Film as Experimental Collaboration |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: The Politics of Recognition Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Patric Plesa We Were Never Meant to Be Held: Black Girl/Femme Being in the Wake of School The strength of a constellation: vulnerability, autonomy, and recognition as political criticism of therapeutic cultures in universities (ONLINE) Psychedelics and neonihilism: Connectedness in a meaningless world |
| 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 |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Panel: Narratives of Work, Teaching, and Memory Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Kari Kragh Blume Dahl Informal Workplace Learning of Newcomer Baristas in Third Wave Coffee Shops of New York Memory, Family, and Reparation in Contexts of Enforced Disappearance: Intergenerational Narratives as a Psychosocial-Political Practice “The person and the profession”: personal-professional journeys into teaching for Danish school teachers |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Panel: Imagination, Mortality, Teleology Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Andre Sales Theorizing Mortality as Resistance: Death Anxiety, Meaning, and the Ethical Imagination of Dark Times (ONLINE) Seeking the "morning star": teleology in Critical Psychology for contested futures Political Imagination in Dark Times: Poison or Cure? |

