ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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The necessity of misunderstanding: How unconscious mistranslations generate what AI cannot
AI, Subjection, and the Politics of the Informational World
On the dangers of anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence
Power– between subject-scientific and post-humanistic theorizing
Creating a Place for Caring: The Foundational Role of the Community Café Owner (ONLINE)
Not my place (anymore)! – Resisting place-making and the implicit normativity of urban life (ONLINE)
Micropolitics of Everyday Life: Narratives of Care, Social Inclusion and Welfare State Transformation
Understanding the political economy of informal caregiving through arts-based approaches in Delhi, India: A proposal for a grounded theory study
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
On Humanity in Dark Times. Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Lessing and Their Significance for Political Psychology (ONLINE)
Comparative Political Theory in Dark Times: Non-Western Voices in Crisis Thinking
Imagination in Dark Times (ONLINE)
Kollwitz and Riefenstahl: Aesthetics and Political Discourses in German Modernity.
Black Spaces for Radical Generativity: Art, Environmental Justice, Reproductive Freedom, and Black Futurities
Presentations of the Symposium
Pathways to the Possible: Black Aesthetic World-Building and Radical Generativity in Brooklyn
Black Radical Cosmologies for Reclaiming Science, Technology and Nature
Wu-Stories: (Re)membering the Wu-Tang Clan as Critical Black History in Staten Island
The Marion Experiment and the Lincoln Experiment: Is our future carceral or liberatory?
Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity
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Decolonizing Knowledge: Towards Epistemic Pluralism
Where is indigenous psychology headed in Brazil: a historical-philosophical investigation (ONLINE)
Imagining Decolonial Methods as Liberatory Practices
Understanding as a Moral Act: The politics of identity-understanding
Imagination as Resistance: Theory, Creativity, and the Healing of Collective Trauma
From Silence to Story: Centering Survivor Voices in Gender-Based Violence Research
Threatening Feelings in Dark Times: Loneliness, Ressentiment, and Meta-Subjectivity in Fragmented Societies
From “Population Utilization” to “Replacement”: How Russian Conspiracy Narratives Weaponize Demographic Decline across Ideological Boundaries
Conspiracy Theories as Dynamic Beliefs: A methodological critique
Authoritarianism in action
Careful & Contested Chronic Living
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
Political dimensions of language and mind
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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)
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
Dialogism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Contexts of Entrapment
Unified Libertarian Theory: Genesis
Reconstructing Home: From Hypergeneralized Feeling to Dialogical Negotiation
Languaging in Dark Times: Maturana, Normativity, and the Fragility of Social Membership (ONLINE)
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
"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)
