ISTP 2026 Conference

“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”

June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA

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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Date: Monday, 08/June/2026

8:00am
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9:00am

Coffee and Registration
Location: Student Union

9:00am
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10:00am

Opening Address
Location: Student Union*
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10:30am
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12:30pm

Panel: AI and Posthumanist Politics
Location: North Hall 106
Chair: Paul Mossner

Symposium: The Landscapes of War and Conflict: Art Under Historical Pressure
Location: North Hall 107
Chair: Luka Lucic

Symposium: Black Spaces for Radical Generativity: Art, Environmental Justice, Reproductive Freedom, and Black Futurities
Location: North Hall 108
Chair: Britney Moreira
Chair: Michael Williams

Panel: Testimony, Moral Understanding, and Imagination
Location: North Hall 110
Chair: Renata Strashnaya

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

Panel: Dialogism, Subjectivity and the Fragility of Social Bonds
Location: North Hall 112*
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Chair: Meike Watzlawik

Symposium: Theorizing as Intervention: Psychology, Gender, and the Politics of Knowledge
Location: North Hall 113
Chair: Luiza Yuan
Chair: TzuYun (Ivy) Chen

12:30pm
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2:00pm

Lunch
Location: Pratt Institute Cafeteria

2:00pm
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3:30pm

Keynote Address: Roger Frie - Hope in an Age of Destruction: From Vulnerability to Resistance (with an Introduction by Mark Freeman)
Location: Student Union*
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3:30pm
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4:00pm

Coffee Break
Location: Student Union

4:00pm
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6:00pm

Panel: Place-Making and Care
Location: North Hall 106*
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Chair: Pernille Juhl

Panel: Imagination in Dark Times
Location: North Hall 107*
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Chair: Ana Carolina Corrêa Ferraz

Invited Symposium: Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity
Location: North Hall 108*
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Chair: Wade Pickren

Panel: Narratives of Authority, Conspiracy and Social Order
Location: North Hall 110*
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Chair: Ana Gantman

Panel: Dialogical Perspectives on Social and Political Life
Location: North Hall 111*
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Chair: Kyoko Murakami

Panel: Health and Mental Crisis
Location: North Hall 112
Chair: Lotte Huniche