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 113 |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Theorizing as Intervention: Psychology, Gender, and the Politics of Knowledge Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Luiza Yuan Chair: TzuYun (Ivy) Chen Theorizing as Intervention: Psychology, Gender, and the Politics of Knowledge Presentations of the Symposium Towards a Theory of Problematic Pornography Use: Uncovering Key Symptoms and Differences Between Women and Men Through Bayesian Analysis of Networks Between Entitlement and Shame: Rethinking Gender Attitudes Through Vulnerable Narcissism Gender as a Moving Target: Making Up ‘Woman’ and How the Looping Effect Can Help Advance Psychological Theories What we talk about when we talk about feminism |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium : "Scientific" Methodologies for Critical Psychological Research Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Ines Langemeyer Chair: Vanessa Lux Chair: Leonard Nigrini "Scientific" Methodologies for Critical Psychological Research Presentations of the Symposium Productive Engagements: Quantitative Measures and Natural Science Approaches for a Critical Psychology Perspective Approaching the Interrelations of Subcortical Units in Classical Conditioning Epistemological breaks - in psychology? (ONLINE) |
| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: Introducing the International Network Psychology in Education (INPsyEd) Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Tim Corcoran Chair: Dorte Kousholt Introducing the International Network Psychology in Education (INPsyEd) Presentations of the Symposium Enabling Anti-Racism in Educational Psychology From outrageous homework assignments and feelings of imprisonment to calls for respect and human rights: Students' perspectives on school Structure as a Psychological-Political Force in Danish Education Educational Psychological Collaboration in Schools: Displacing Problems or Collaboration Across Contexts |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Panel: Sexual Labor and Subjectivation under Capitalism Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Johanna L Degen Mainstreaming Sex Work through Feminist Frameworks: Subscription Platforms (Onlyfans) and the (Self-)Subjugation of Subjects within Platform Capitalism STRIP CLUBS AND THE WORK OF PLEASURE: HOW CAN PSYCHOLOGY RE-APPROACH ADULT ENTERTAINMENT? |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Conceptualizing Care in Times of Crisis: Politics, Emotions, and Transformative Practices Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Dorte Kousholt Conceptualizing Care in Times of Crisis: Politics, Emotions, and Transformative Practices Presentations of the Symposium Care as Foundation: Toward a Culturally Rooted Practice of Development and Education Breaking the Neoliberal Cycle: Reconceptualizing care through activist agency Schoolchildren’s Emotions as Carriers of Knowledge and Mediators of Agency – Challenging the Rationalist Ethos of Emotion Regulation in Western Education Researching with Care? Transformative Research Collaboration in Times of Crisis |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | |
| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium: The Landscapes of War and Conflict: Art Under Historical Pressure Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Luka Lucic The Landscapes of War and Conflict: Art Under Historical Pressure Presentations of the Symposium Mythologizing Reality in Times of Crisis: Modernism in Interwar L’viv The Object of Myth: Georges Bataille’s Promethean Virtue Royal War Painter Peter Howson and His Visual Representations of the Bosnian War |
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium: Art is no Tool Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Lia Lordelo Art is no tool (ONLINE) Presentations of the Symposium Relearning the meaning of Art: in day's where we tend to believe to know all about Art (ONLINE) Can Art Save Psychology? Or Is That the Wrong Question? (ONLINE) Social coreographies in contemporary Brazil: transforming social and political order (ONLINE) |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Double-Symposium Part I: Theorizing Transformative Change Across Levels of Praxis Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Line Lerche Mørck Chair: Paul Stenner Double-Symposium: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis (1) Presentations of the Symposium Counter-hegemonic alternatives: Elaborating the development across theoretical disciplines and fields of practice Counter-hegemonic alternatives of social youth work in marginalized urban areas (ONLINE Collective transformative agency in differential social spaces of boundary youth work |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Double-Symposium Part II: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis Location: North Hall 113 Chair: Line Lerche Mørck Chair: Paul Stenner Double-Symposium: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis (second part) Presentations of the Symposium Transformative pedagogy in dark times – creating conditions for co-creation of youth counter-narratives Co-Production of Safe Spaces in an Unsafe World? Re-/ Presenting Positioning - A Video Production |

