2010 International Conference in Literature and Psychology

For more information go to: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2010/index.html

Our 2010 annual International Literature and Psychology Conference will take place in P�cs, Hungary June 23-28, 2010. Its organizer, <a onmouseover="email = new Array('b','o','k','a','y','a','@','t','-','o','n','l','i','n','e','.','h','u'); this.href='mailto:'; for(i=0;i text = new Array(‘A’,’n’,’t’,’a’,’l’,’ ‘,’B’,’�’,’k’,’a’,’y’); for(i=0; i<text.length; i++) { document.write(text[i]); } Antal B�kay was also the host of our very first Psyart conference in 1983.

P�cs is an old university town in southwest Hungary. It was declared a World Historical Site by UNESCO, and for one year, in 2010, it will be holding the title of Cultural Capital of Europe. P�cs was a major Roman city in the second and third centuries, then a medieval center, with the first Hungarian university founded in 1367. Today it has 150,000 inhabitants and a university with 30,000 students. It has a mild dry Mediterranean climate. P�cs is near the Croatian border. Budapest is 200 km (130 miles), Vienna is 260 km (160 miles), and the Dalmatian coast is 400 km (250 miles) away.

You can find information on the city on its official web-site (http://en.pecs.hu/) and on the site of the Cultural Capital Program (http://en.pecs2010.hu/).

The local organizers of the conference are the University of P�cs, the Psychoanalysis Ph.D. Program, the local branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Imago East-West.

The site of the conference is the Academy House, the research center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Papers should be short, 20 minutes at most. Ours is a very convivial conference, but the one complaint we get again and again is that speakers do not stick to the time limit! Please begin now to think about observing this time limit, so as to allow for the maximum number of presenters. Normal speaking rate is 140 words per minute, and, for clarity, a scholarly presentation should be somewhat slower. Our standard 20-minute limit allows you to speak about 2400 words. An additional 5 minutes are allotted for discussion after each paper, and the remaining time will serve for discussion at the end of the session. For each session, there will be a moderator responsible for keeping speakers within twenty minutes. The moderator speaks last in the session, and it is therefore to his or her self-interest to keep to the schedule.

Papers may be in English, French, or German, and they may deal with any application of psychology to the study of literature, film, or the other arts. And, if submitted for publication in the journal after the conference, they can be as long or short as you like. Please prepare your abstract and add it to the registration form below. Abstracts must be less than 150 words. Any excess will simply be ignored. Also, please,in a separate e-mail, e-mail your abstract to our program assistant, <a onmouseover="email = new Array('s','e','a','s','o','n','a','l','s','u','s','a','n','@','g','m','a','i','l','.','c','o','m'); this.href='mailto:'; for(i=0;i text = new Array(‘S’,’u’,’s’,’a’,’n’,’ ‘,’W’,’a’,’s’,’h’,’i’,’n’,’g’,’t’,’o’,’n’); for(i=0; i<text.length; i++) { document.write(text[i]); } Susan Washington.

We recommend that speakers in English who are not native speakers of English accompany their talks with PowerPoint. Please prepare your abstract and add it to the registration form below. Abstracts must be less than 150 words. Any excess will simply be ignored.

The deadline for sending us your title and abstract and registration fee is April 1 or the time at which we receive 65 abstracts, titles and registration fees, whichever comes sooner. Papers with completed registration, i.e., all three items submitted, by the deadline are assured a slot on the program. Abstracts submitted after then will be put on a waiting list and will be put on the program as cancellations permit.

For a complete registration, we require three items:

  1. a completed registration form (see below) including paper title
  2. title and brief abstract of paper (150 words maximum; excess will be omitted). These abstracts enable us to place your paper in an appropriate session. We will also publish them online and distribute the abstracts at the conference.
  3. A registration fee of $295 U.S. You will find instructions for payment after the registration form below. The $295 includes a $25 tax-deductible donation to the PsyArt Foundation, as voted in 2005. This figure has been made necessary by our loss of financial support from the University of Florida and the weakening of the dollar against the euro, which has increased our expenses. The registration fee is refundable (except for the $25 donation) for any reason until May 1, but not thereafter for any reason. The donation makes you a member of PsyArt, entitled–and encouraged–to attend and vote at the annual meeting of PsyArt which will take place on June 27 at the conference in P�cs.

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