ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Coffee and Registration Location: Student Union |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Opening Address Location: Student Union* link to join Theorizing in Dark Times |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Panel: AI and Posthumanist Politics Location: North Hall 106 Chair: Paul Mossner 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 |
Symposium: The Landscapes of War and Conflict: Art Under Historical Pressure Location: North Hall 107 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 |
Symposium: Black Spaces for Radical Generativity: Art, Environmental Justice, Reproductive Freedom, and Black Futurities Location: North Hall 108 Chair: Britney Moreira Chair: Michael Williams 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? |
Panel: Testimony, Moral Understanding, and Imagination Location: North Hall 110 Chair: Renata Strashnaya 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 |
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 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 |
Panel: Dialogism, Subjectivity and the Fragility of Social Bonds Location: North Hall 112* link to join Chair: Meike Watzlawik 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) |
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 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 |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Location: Pratt Institute Cafeteria |
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| 2:00pm - 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* link to join Hope in an Age of Destruction: From Vulnerability to Resistance |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: Student Union |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Panel: Place-Making and Care Location: North Hall 106* link to join Chair: Pernille Juhl 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 Using photovoice to understand the experiences of unpaid caregivers of Individuals with Severe Mental Illness in Delhi, India |
Panel: Imagination in Dark Times Location: North Hall 107* link to join Chair: Ana Carolina Corrêa Ferraz 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 (ONLINE) Imagination in Dark Times (ONLINE) Kollwitz and Riefenstahl: Aesthetics and Political Discourses in German Modernity. |
Invited Symposium: Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity Location: North Hall 108* link to join Chair: Wade Pickren Indigenous Psychologies: Before and Beyond the Dark Side of Western Modernity Presentations of the Symposium Where is indigenous psychology headed in Brazil: a historical-philosophical investigation (ONLINE) Decolonizing Knowledge: Towards Epistemic Pluralism Imagining Decolonial Methods as Liberatory Practices |
Panel: Narratives of Authority, Conspiracy and Social Order Location: North Hall 110* link to join Chair: Ana Gantman 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 (ONLINE) |
Panel: Dialogical Perspectives on Social and Political Life Location: North Hall 111* link to join Chair: Kyoko Murakami Hybrid scenarios of activity: building bridges of humanity in dark times (ONLINE) From Memory to Materiality: Tracing Theoretical Journeys in Discursive Psychology of Reconciliation Living Language: A Political Activity (ONLINE) Inner Speech, Inner Genres, and the Politics of the Mind (ONLINE) |
Panel: Health and Mental Crisis Location: North Hall 112 Chair: Lotte Huniche 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 |
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