ACEI conference in Boston, June 12-15 2008

Pre-Conference Young Researchers’ Workshop

Call for participants

A workshop for young researchers will take place on the afternoon of June 12^th 2008 (from 1400-1700 approximately) just ahead of the commencement of 15^th biennial conference of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) to be hosted at Northeastern University in Boston, USA (see www.acei.neu.edu for further details about the organization and the conference). The workshop provides an opportunity for conference delegates who are graduate students (at masters and PhD levels) 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.

Xavier Castañer (HEC School of Management, Paris) and Steven Tepper (Vanderbilt University) will co-lead the workshop and members of the Executive Board of the ACEI, including our president Professor Ruth Towse (Erasmus University), will participate. The workshop will be followed by a welcome reception on the evening of June 12^th to which attendees are warmly invited.

Interested graduate students should please send their curriculum vitae and a 1-page abstract of their dissertation project (12 point font), indicating: at which stage they are at (pre or post-proposal defense); 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 Xavier Castañer at castaner@hec.fr, and Steven Tepper at steven.j.tepper@vanderbilt.edu by January 15^th, 2008. Applicants will be informed of whether they have been allocated a place at the workshop by March 5^th 2008.

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 Boston. Where support is granted, this will take the form of reimbursement against receipts of up to $500 for travel and accommodation costs plus assistance with conference delegate fees.

Since the purpose of the workshop is to support early stage researchers, please note that anyone who has a paper accepted for the main conference will then become ineligible for a place at the workshop. In addition, please note that the ACEI will support a maximum of one subsidized attendance at a young researchers’ workshop per individual (so anyone who received support in Vienna 2006 is not eligible to receive additional subsidy in 2008 or thereafter).