CfP: 19th International Conference on Cultural Economics

The conference organizers welcome submission of papers (in English) on any aspect of cultural economics to be considered for inclusion in contributed paper sessions. Considered subjects include (but are not limited to):

Proposals by scholars who wish to organize a contributed session are welcome, provided that the papers in the session do not come from the same research centre, organization or university.

Arts administrators, business practitioners, consultants, and policy-makers with an interest in economics-related issues and questions concerning this field are encouraged to attend the conference to share their views on the interactions between the practices of the cultural sector and economic analysis.

Please, send an abstract of 200 - 300 words (PDF format) including your name, mailing address and e-mail address, affiliation and position held, clearly stating the contribution of your paper to cultural economics. The abstract should also include keywords (up to five).

Submissions will be refereed by the Conference Scientific Committee and authors will be notified by e-mail before February 28th, 2016.

Scholars who wish to organize a contributed session are especially encouraged. They should send their proposal by e-mail(PDF format) before January 31st, 2016 to Professor Ilde Rizzo, Program Chair, with the subject «2016 ACEI <name of the proponent> <title of the proposed session>.

Accepted authors should submit their full paper electronically in PDF format and upload it through the conference website before June 1st, 2016. They are encouraged to follow the guidelines for the Journal of Cultural Economics

Work in progress not ready for publication but with meaningful results will be taken into consideration.

Papers will only be included in the final programme if presenting authors have registered by June 5th, 2016.

A workshop for young researchers will take place on the morning of June 21st 2016 just ahead of the commencement of 19th biennial conference of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI). The workshop provides an opportunity for conference delegates who are graduate students (at masters and PhD level) to discuss their dissertations, publication plans and job market issues amongst themselves and with other more experienced scholars who share an interest in questions surrounding economic aspects of culture.

Víctor Fernández-Blanco (University of Oviedo, Spain) will organize the workshop and members of the Executive Board of the ACEI will participate.

Interested graduate students should please send their CVs and a 1-page abstract of their dissertation project (12 point font), indicating at which stage they are at (pre or post-proposal defence), their institutional affiliation and title of their graduate program, as well as what type of job they envisage after graduation (academic, government, consulting, and if academic in which discipline), to YRWchair.acei2016@uva.es by January 31st, 2016.

Applicants will be informed of whether they have been allocated a place at the workshop by March 1st 2016.

ACEI funding support is available to assist attendance for a small number of workshop participants. Applicants who require such support should please submit a short cover letter with their applications, explaining why such assistance is needed and specifying their expected travel and accommodation costs in Valladolid. Where support is granted, this will take the form of reimbursement against receipts of up to $500 for travel and accommodation costs. In addition, please note that the ACEI will support a maximum of one subsidized attendance at a Young Researchers Workshop per individual.

Since the purpose of the workshop is to support early stage researchers, please note that priority is given to young researchers who do not have a paper accepted for the main conference.

If you have a paper accepted for the main ACEI conference, please remember that the Presidents Prize recognizes the best paper from a PhD student or a young postgraduate (less than 35 years old) presented at the conference. It entails an expedited process for publication in the Journal of Cultural Economics. Young Researchers` Workshop participants are also encouraged to apply for President`s Prize.