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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

Agenda Overview

Date: Monday, 08/June/2026

8:00am - 9:00am

Coffee and Registration
Location: Student Union

9:00am - 10:00am

Opening Address
Location: Student Union

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

10:30am - 12:30pm

Symposium: On the need for creative sense-making during dark times: The aesthetic dimension as vital to cultural experiencing.
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Paul Stenner

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

10:30am - 12:30pm

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

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lunch
Location: Pratt Institute Cafeteria

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Keynote Address: Roger Frie
Location: Student Union

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 6:00pm

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

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Imagination in Dark Times
Location: North Hall 107*
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Session Chair: Oliver Clifford Pedersen

4:00pm - 6:00pm

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

4:00pm - 6:00pm

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

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Invited Symposium: Political Dimensions of Language and Mind
Location: North Hall 111*
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Session Chair: Carolin Demuth

4:00pm - 6:00pm

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

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium : "Scientific" Methodologies for Critical Psychological Research
Location: North Hall 113*
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Session Chair: Ines Langemeyer
Session Chair: Vanessa Lux
Session Chair: Leonard Nigrini

Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026

8:00am - 9:00am

Coffee and Registration
Location: Student Union

9:00am - 10:30am

Keynote Address: Alexandra Rutherford - Off the couches, into the streets!
Location: Student Union

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Political Subjectivity in a Fractured World
Location: North Hall 106*
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Session Chair: Guro Brokke Omland

10:30am - 12:30pm

Symposium: Listening darkly, otherwise and for human rights: Mobilising the Emancipatory Potential of Listening in Dark Times
Location: North Hall 108
Session Chair: Johanna Motzkau

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Psychoanalysis and Ideology
Location: North Hall 110
Session Chair: Sonja Janičić

10:30am - 12:30pm

Invited Symposium: Positioning Theory, Narrative, and Power
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Michael Bamberg
Session Chair: Carolin Demuth

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Crisis Narratives
Location: North Hall 112*
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Session Chair: Alexandra Stamson

10:30am - 12:30pm

Symposium: Introducing the International Network Psychology in Education (INPsyEd)
Location: North Hall 113
Session Chair: Tim Corcoran
Session Chair: Dorte Kousholt

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Collective Lecture Hour over Lunch - with Jaan Valsiner and others
Location: North Hall 106*
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12:30pm - 2:00pm

Politics over Lunch - with Mark Freeman and others
Location: Student Union

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Pitch an Idea: Care, Liberation, and Reimagining Collective Life
Location: North Hall 106
Session Chair: Amanda Almond

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Pitch an Idea: Childhood, Schooling, and Pedagogy of Inequality
Location: North Hall 107*
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Session Chair: Michelle Mari Sommer

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Panel: Between Structure and Experience: Rethinking Social and Material Worlds
Location: North Hall 108*
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Session Chair: Alice E Ripberger

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Pitch an Idea: Digitality, Narrative and Hybrid Subjectivities
Location: North Hall 110
Session Chair: Selina Staniczek

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Panel: Subject Formation, the Gaze, and the Politics of Desire
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Ken Russell

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Panel: Subjectivation under Capitalism
Location: North Hall 113
Session Chair: Johanna L Degen

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Theorizing Research Methods
Location: North Hall 106
Session Chair: Laura McGrath

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Narrative Resistance and Identity
Location: North Hall 107*
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Session Chair: Claire Park

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium: Thinking with Matter: New Materialisms in Psychology
Location: North Hall 108
Session Chair: Rosa Traversa
Session Chair: Thomas Teo

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium: Are Dark Times Looming for Universities? Student Dialogue with AI Chatbots and Its Implications for Learning and Critical Education
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Cathrine Hasse
Session Chair: Ernst Schraube

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Rethinking Mind, Meaning, and Method
Location: North Hall 112
Session Chair: Kyoko Murakami

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Beyond Critique: Reimagining Psychology in Times of Crisis
Location: North Hall 113*
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Session Chair: Anne Morin

Date: Wednesday, 10/June/2026

10:00am - 2:00pm

City Tour: Public Places and Parks
Location: Pratt Institute Main Gate

Prior Registration Required

10:00am - 2:00pm

City Tour: Walking and Riding NYC
Location: Pratt Institute Main Gate

Prior Registration Required

10:00am - 2:00pm

City Tour: Communities and Neighborhood Activism
Location: Pratt Institute Main Gate

Prior Registration Required

5:00pm - 8:00pm

Conference Dinner
Location: Grimm Rooftop Terrace

Prior Registration Required.

Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Critical Theory and Critical Agency in Psychology
Location: North Hall 106*
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Session Chair: Swen Koerner

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Articulation, Trauma and Ideology in Dark Times
Location: North Hall 107*
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Session Chair: Kris (Di) Wu

10:30am - 12:30pm

Symposium: Situated Inequality – Institutional Processes of Inequality Across Education, Unemployment and Mental Health
Location: North Hall 108
Session Chair: Maja Røn-Larsen

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: The Politics of Recognition
Location: North Hall 110*
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Session Chair: Patric Plesa

10:30am - 12:30pm

Invited Symposium: “Hell Is Other People:” Theorizing the (Negative) Dialectics of Relationality
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Thomas Teo

10:30am - 12:30pm

Symposium: Conceptualizing Care in Times of Crisis: Politics, Emotions, and Transformative Practices
Location: North Hall 112*
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Session Chair: Dorte Kousholt

10:30am - 12:30pm

Panel: Gender, Responsibility, and the Politics of Identity
Location: North Hall 113*
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Session Chair: Nurit Novis

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lunch
Location: Pratt Institute Cafeteria

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Keynote Address: Robert Beshara - The Invention of the Unconscious in Egypt
Location: Student Union

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium: Engendering Embodiment with Research on Disability and Neurodiversiy
Location: North Hall 106*
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Session Chair: Tim Beck

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Youth, Grief, and Crisis Representation
Location: North Hall 107
Session Chair: Trudy Meehan

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Invited Symposium: Theorizing From and Within Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR)
Location: North Hall 108*
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Session Chair: Nora Ruck
Session Chair: Johanna Motzkau

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Art, Resistance, and Futurity
Location: North Hall 110
Session Chair: Maayan Hilel

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium: Con-fronting the neoliberal agenda in psychology with a transformative activist approach in solidarity with the scholarship of resistance
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Eduardo Vianna

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Panel: Shaping the Relational Self
Location: North Hall 112*
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Session Chair: Johanna L Degen

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symposium: Art is no Tool
Location: North Hall 113*
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Session Chair: Lia Lordelo

Date: Friday, 12/June/2026

8:00am - 9:00am

Morning Coffee and ISTP Business Meeting
Location: Student Union

9:00am - 11:00am

Panel: Affect, Uncertainty and Social Life in Times of Crisis
Location: North Hall 106
Session Chair: Tim Corcoran

9:00am - 11:00am

Panel: Psychotherapy as Political Technology
Location: North Hall 107
Session Chair: Kelso Cratsley

9:00am - 11:00am

Double symposium Part I: Knowledge, Action, Care? Ecocentric Psychological Research for the Anthropocene
Location: North Hall 108*
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Session Chair: Luca Tateo
Session Chair: Niklas Alexander Chimirri

9:00am - 11:00am

Panel: Narratives of Work, Teaching, and Memory
Location: North Hall 110*
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Session Chair: Kari Kragh Blume Dahl

9:00am - 11:00am

Symposium: The Art of Field Tripping
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Tomoaki Imamichi

9:00am - 11:00am

Double-Symposium Part I: Theorizing Transformative Change Across Levels of Praxis
Location: North Hall 112
Session Chair: Line Lerche Mørck
Session Chair: Paul Stenner

9:00am - 11:00am

Panel: Politics, Resistance, and Alternative Epistemologies
Location: North Hall 113
Session Chair: Katerina Flora

11:00am - 11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30am - 1:30pm

Panel: Practices of World-Making: Image, Materiality, and Resistance in Dark Times
Location: North Hall 106*
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Session Chair: Tine Jensen

11:30am - 1:30pm

Panel: Rethinking Experience: Voice, Temporality, and Meaning in Psychology
Location: North Hall 107*
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Session Chair: Jaakko Hilppö

11:30am - 1:30pm

Double symposium Part II: Knowledge, Action, Care? Ecocentric Psychological Research for the Anthropocene
Location: North Hall 108
Session Chair: Luca Tateo
Session Chair: Niklas Alexander Chimirri

11:30am - 1:30pm

Panel: Imagination, Mortality, Teleology
Location: North Hall 110*
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Session Chair: Andre Sales

11:30am - 1:30pm

Invited Symposium: Keep on Keeping on: Reflections Theory from Cultural Workers and Researchers-in-Practice Working in Community Arts With Children and Young People
Location: North Hall 111
Session Chair: Melissa Nolas

11:30am - 1:30pm

Double-Symposium Part II: Theorizing transformative change across levels of praxis
Location: North Hall 112
Session Chair: Line Lerche Mørck
Session Chair: Paul Stenner

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Lunch, Open Mic, and Farewell
Location: Student Union

ISTP 2026 Conference

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

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

Conference Agenda