Conference

The Association holds an international conference every two years.

The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) has held its 17th International Conference of ACEI in Kyoto last June 21-24, 2012.


Two plenary sessions presented in this conference can be downloaded here:

Plenary session by Prof. Masahisa Fujita "Diversity and Culture in Knowledge Creation: The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited"

Opening plenary session by Prof. Stan Liebowitz "What has the Internet wrought for the production of Entertainment and Culture?"

Information about the host university, the conference, the social program and other issues that may be useful can be found on the ACEI 2012 website within the Japan Association for Cultural Economics site.

ACEI conferences have theme-related special sessions and other regular ones. The following subject areas are intended to be illustrative of possible topics that might be considered, but other approaches are welcome:

Call for Papers

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Prizes and Honours

The ACEI awards regular prizes and creates Honorary Fellows from time to time.

The Presidents´ Prize

This prize is awarded to the best paper in the judgement of a Committee consisting of the President, Past President and President-Elect that is presented at the biennial conference by a PhD or other postgraduate student. The prize includes: an announcement of the winner in the Journal of Cultural Economics (JCE) and other academic journals; a waiver of conference registration and conference banquet fees for the next conference; and an expedited process for refereeing the winning paper for possible publication in the JCE. The winner is announced at the ACEI's General Meeting during the conference.

The Pommerehne Prize

The prize is awarded to the paper published in the Journal of Cultural Economics in the 2 volumes preceding the biennial conference that is judged to be best. The winner receives a prize of US$1,000. The procedures are currently under review.

Previous conference information

The Association holds an international conference every two years.

The 16th International Conference was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 June 2010. The local organizers of the conference were Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Innovation and Organizational Economics, and the University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics.

See History page for details of previous prize winners, workshops and symposia.