
MEMORY Shaping Connections in the Arts Therapies
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16th European Arts Therapies Conference
September 22nd to 25th September 2021
Vilnius University, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Conference 2021 Keynote
We are delighted to announce Doris Salcado as our Conference Keynote Speaker
Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means.
Salcedo was the recipient of the 2020 inaugural Nomura art prize and also received the 2019 Possehl Prize for International Art; Rolf Schock Prize in the Visual Arts (2017); Nasher Sculpture Prize (2015).
CONFERENCE NEWS
Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2021
Further to recent Board meetings and correspondence with colleagues in Lithuania, we are still working towards the conference happening in Vilnius this year.
We appreciate the concerns of delegates regarding the unknown course the pandemic will take over these next few months, and we are keeping a close eye on national and international guidelines.
We can confirm a final decision will be made by 30th April as to whether the conference will go ahead this year.
CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW CLOSED
Thank you to all those who submitted a proposal. We will be in contact to confirm we have received your submissions as soon as we can.



The Conference Directors invited submissions of proposals for papers, workshops, posters or performances on the conference theme. The programme will offer the following pathways:
Art therapy
Dance Movement Therapy
Dramatherapy
Music Therapy
Play therapy
Education in the Arts Therapies
The selection processes will take place during the months of November and December 2020. Late submissions cannot be considered by the Scientific Committee.
Please be sure to read all the relevant information (here) before downloading the
Call For Papers form.
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION FOR THE NEXT CONFERENCE WILL BEGIN IN MAY 2021
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