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 111 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Invited Symposium: Political Dimensions of Language and Mind Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Carolin Demuth Political dimensions of language and mind Presentations of the Symposium From Memory to Materiality: Tracing Theoretical Journeys in Discursive Psychology of Reconciliation Inner Speech, Inner Genres, and the Politics of the Mind Living Language: A Political Activity (ONLINE) |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 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: Reclaiming Subjectivity in Psychology Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Irene Strasser NARRATING POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS Learning in Precarious Times |
| 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
Invited Symposium: Theorization & Discard in Dark Times Location: North Hall 111 Chair: Donald Brown Theorization & Discard in Dark Times Presentations of the Symposium The Politics of Theoretical Discard: A Case Study Workin’ With Spooks: Finding Life at the End of Theory and Time Theoretical Nutrient Cycling: On Composting Liberatory Movement Work Rooted in Benevolent Colonialism |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 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 |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
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 Keep on keeping on: reflections theory 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 |
