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 112 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Home and Belonging: Dialogical Negotiation Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Meike Watzlawik Dialogism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Contexts of Entrapment Unified Libertarian Theory: Genesis Reconstructing Home: From Hypergeneralized Feeling to Dialogical Negotiation |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Health and Mental Crisis Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Lotte Huniche Examining burnout as a contested psychiatric diagnosis through the lens of developing countries in a neoliberal world How we become and remain (un)healthy: the politics of health in psychological theory AI Intimacies: The Possibilities and Limits of Technotherapeutics and Technologized Care ‘The global mental health crisis’ as a crisis of human environments |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Fiction and Crisis Narratives Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Alexandra Stamson From Collective Stories to Story-Collections: COVID-19 Narratives as Artefacts between Documentation and Creative Transformation of Crisis Multilevel Narrative Engagement in Times of Crisis (ONLINE) Narrativizing Possibility: How fiction can help in our self-understanding |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Pitch an Idea: Rural Margins, Democratic Infrastructure, and Political Narration Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Fedor Marchenko Out of Sight, Out of Scope: Rural Communities in the Margins of Psych-Disciplines Reimagining Democratic Infrastructures in Rural (former East) Germany: Art-based narratives and their impact on community mobilization 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: Gender, Responsibility, and the Politics of Identity Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Nurit Novis The Use of Gendered Narratives for Community Construction within Islamist and Far-Right Online Groups Studying Cis Identities: A qualitative study about the relevance of gender identity and sexuality in therapeutic practices (ONLINE) “I Had No Choice”: On the Surprising Absence of Free Will Among Perpetrators and Rescuers |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: Method and Activism Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Lina Jacob Hybrid scenarios of activity: building bridges of humanity in dark times (ONLINE) Creating Open Community Spaces for Innovative Child Support: Insights from a Character Design Competition in Japan Use of Custom Methodology to Shine New Light on Negotiation of “Activist” Roles, Community, and Identities Within Queer Individuals |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Shaping the Relational Self Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Johanna L Degen Exploring young childrens (learning) engagements with each other and with things in and across nursery and familylife Troubles and Issues of Family Life The Shaping of the Parasocial Self: Digitizing Social Mechanisms and Their Meanings for Subjects and Society in Times of Increasing Individualization and Loneliness |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Panel: Ecologies of Affection Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Valerie Walkerdine Integrating geosystems into Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory (ONLINE) From Pathology to Potency: The Carl Rogers Axis and the Philosophical Foundation of Counseling Towards an Affective History of the present |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
TBD Location: North Hall 112 |
