ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Keynote Address: Alexandra Rutherford - Off the couches, into the streets!
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“Off the couches, into the streets!” Psychology and social change in the long 1960s York University, Canada No period in recent United States history is quite as iconic as the “long 1960s.” Extending from the mid-1950s into the 1970s, these years saw the rise of the Black Power, Women’s Liberation, and Gay Rights movements in the context of intense anti-Vietnam War activism and a vibrant counterculture. How did these social movements influence psychology, and how did psychology contribute to social change? In this talk, I describe and reflect on a current collaboration with the National Museum of Psychology in Ohio to design an exhibit that weaves together the intense sociopolitical upheaval of this period with developments in psychology. The disciplinary formations of Black psychology, feminist psychology, and lesbian and gay psychology emerged during this time to enrich, challenge, and transform psychological understandings of what it means to be human. In returning to the 1960s, we explore how the psychological and the political intersected, and imagine the role of psychology in the next social revolution. | ||

