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 111 |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: On the need for creative sense-making during dark times: The aesthetic dimension as vital to cultural experiencing. Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Paul Stenner On the need for creative sense-making during dark times: The aesthetic dimension as vital to cultural experiencing. Presentations of the Symposium Distinguishing created, creating and creative chronotopes within Bakhtin’s aesthetic philosophy and deploying these distinctions in the cultural psychological study of films From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies The Dark Side of Aesthetics Theatre in dark times: theorising as dialogical practice |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Invited Symposium: Positioning Theory, Narrative, and Power Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Michael Bamberg Chair: Carolin Demuth Positioning Theory, Narrative, and Power Presentations of the Symposium Reconsidering positioning theory Positioning Maternal Responsibility and Agency in Hierarchical Educational Contexts Positioning in citizenship talk on sustainability policy making “I need 11,000 votes – Give me a break” – Positioning, Conversational Implicature, and Plausible Deniability. |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Panel: Subject Formation, the Gaze, and the Politics of Desire Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Ken Russell The Eternal Dissolve: De-Programming the Gaze as a Theory of Subject Formation across Psychoanalytic and Islamic Models Post-Woke Sexuality and the New Erotic Against the 'Sinthome:' Theorizing Art Beyond Self-Naming |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Are Dark Times Looming for Universities? Student Dialogue with AI Chatbots and Its Implications for Learning and Critical Education Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Cathrine Hasse Chair: Ernst Schraube Are Dark Times Looming for Universities? Student Dialogue with AI Chatbots and Its Implications for Learning and Critical Education Presentations of the Symposium Cultivating Relational Socratic Ignorance (RSI) in Learning with Generative AI From Moral Panic to Transformative Activist Pedagogy: The Role of Student Agency in Reimagining Education in an Era of AI Tentacular Learning and the Missing Word-to-World Connection of AI-Generated Text |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Invited Symposium: “Hell Is Other People:” Theorizing the (Negative) Dialectics of Relationality Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Thomas Teo “Hell is other people:” Theorizing the (negative) dialectics of relationality Presentations of the Symposium Hell Is Us: Interrelational Ethics, Colonial Violence, and the Courage of Vulnerability in Dark Times Coping with My Nonrelational Relationality The Power of Negative Thinking: Metaphoric Modes of Knowing in Psychological Practice On the Conditions for People Becoming Hell to Other People |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Con-fronting the neoliberal agenda in psychology with a transformative activist approach in solidarity with the scholarship of resistance Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Eduardo Vianna Con-fronting the neoliberal agenda in psychology with a transformative activist approach in solidarity with the scholarship of resistance Presentations of the Symposium Transformative Activist Stance: Theory and Research as Sociopolitical Projects of Social Change Disrupting the Status Quo in the Community College: A critical-theoretical approach to psychology teaching Theorising wellbeing in dark times: Reflections on the struggle to save jobs Encountering the Pano People: Activism and Transformation in an Amazonian Cosmo Praxis |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Symposium: The Art of Field Tripping Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Tomoaki Imamichi The Art of Field Tripping Presentations of the Symposium The Joys and Miseries of Walking and Public Transit in New York City Green Infrastructure through an Environmental Justice Lens in Gowanus Somatic Superfund Walking Tour Street Art, Scholarship and Activism |
| 11:30am - 1:30pm |
Invited Symposium: Keep on Keeping on: Reflections Theory from Cultural Workers and Researchers-in-Practice Working in Community Arts With Children and Young People Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Melissa Nolas Keep on Keeping on: Reflections from Cultural Workers and Researchers-in-Practice Working in Community Arts With Children and Young People Presentations of the Symposium Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people Keep on keeping on: reflections theory from cultural workers and researchers-in-practice working in community arts with children and young people |
