27th International Literature and Psychology Conference June 22, 2010

Our 2010 annual International Literature and Psychology Conference will take place in Pécs, Hungary June 23-28, 2010. Its organizer, Antal Bókay was also the host of our very first Psyart conference in 1983.

Pécs 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. Pécs 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. Pécs 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 Pécs, 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.

Évente megrendezett nemzetközi konferencia. Témája a művészetek és az irodalom pszichológiai, pszichoanalitikus kutatása. A konferencia minden évben más európai vagy amerikai helyszínen kerül megrendezésre.

Conference information provided by konferenciakalauz.hu

Official Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2010/index.html