Welcome

We are pleased to announce that the 31^st International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, June 25-29, 2014. The conference is sponsored by the PsyArt Foundation; I2ADS/Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto; and Sociedad Española de Estudios de Comunicación Iberoamericana-Grupo Concilium, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Our hosts at the Universidad Complutense made this all possible: Marta Bernardes of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, and our Co-Director, Professor David Caldevilla of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información.

Although the primary language of the conference is English, we also welcome presentations in Spanish. Papers should deal with any application of psychology—including psychoanalysis, object relations, feminist, Jungian, or Lacanian approaches, cognitive psychology, or neuroscience–to the study of literature, film and visual media, painting, sculpture, music, performance, or the other arts. Our conference is small (maximum 75 papers), very convivial, and draws scholars from around the world. We also welcome conferees who do not plan to present papers.

The registration fee of $295 includes all sessions, all coffee breaks, opening reception (evening of June 25), two tours (June 26 afternoon walking tour and June 29 bus tour), and Sunday evening June 29 closing banquet. The registration fee is reduced to $150 for graduate students.

Wednesday, June 25

Welcome reception, evening.

Thursday, June 26

Morning: Official opening. Start of parallel sessions. Lunch. Afternoon: City walk.

Friday, June 27

Sessions continued. Lunch. Directors' Meeting in the late afternoon (PsyArt Directors only). Film screening in the evening.

Saturday, June 28

Sessions continued. Lunch. Film screening in the evening.

Sunday, June 29

Final session, followed by Members' Meeting (all conferees invited) and group photos. Bus trip in the afternoon. Closing banquet.

Monday, June 30

Morning departure. We assume most conferees will arrive Wednesday, June 25 and depart Monday, June 30, but of course you are welcome to tour Madrid before or after the conference.

Papers should be short, 20 minutes at most. Please observe the time limit 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 or eight to ten pages maximum. An additional ten minutes are allotted for discussion for each paper, usually at the end of the session. For each session, there will be a moderator responsible for keeping speakers within 20 minutes. The moderator speaks last, and it is therefore to his or her interest to keep to the schedule.

If submitted for publication after the conference, papers can be as long or short as you like.

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 be cut.

The deadline for sending us your title and abstract is May 1 or the time at which we have 75 accepted abstracts, registration forms, and registration fees, whichever comes sooner. Once you receive notice that your abstract is accepted, you can pay your fees to be assured a slot on the program.

For a complete registration, we require three items:

1. A completed registration form (see below) including paper title.
2. Brief abstract of paper (150 words maximum; excess will be cut). These abstracts enable us to decide if your paper is acceptable for the conference and then 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., to be paid after acceptance of your abstract, which includes admission to all sessions, two tours, reception, coffee breaks, and banquet. The $295 fee must also be paid by those not presenting a paper and by accompanying family or friends who wish to have a name tag and participate in conference events. Graduate students and children (under 18) of conferees pay $150. Any payments received after April 15 must include a late fee of $30, and no payments will be accepted after May 15. The registration fee includes a $25 tax-deductible donation to the PsyArt Foundation, as voted in 2005. The registration fee is refundable (except the $25 donation) for any reason until June 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 at the conference on June 29. You will find instructions for payment after the registration form below.

Important: Include your e-mail address below. It will not come through to us automatically from this form, and, if we don't have it, our communications with you will be impossible. Make sure it is typed correctly.

If, by April, you are not getting e-mail from us, let us know. Do not assume that some currency arrangement you made the previous year is still effective. Do not leave your registration for some friend to do. Make sure that we have your complete registration (all three items) and your correct e-mail address. Fill out a separate form and pay for each accompanying guest.

Last-minute changes in titles, abstracts, and schedule cause great difficulty for the organizers. We will not accept changes in title or abstract after June 1 nor changes in the schedule after one week from the time the organizers e-mail the schedule.