32st Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts 9-11 July 2006, Vienna, Austria Hosted by the FOKUS (Austrian Association for Cultural Economics and Policy Studies) Call for Papers The conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A) is an international and inter-disciplinary gathering of researchers, policy makers and practitioners that highlights [current and] conceptual and empirical issues concerning cultural policy, social theory, and arts administration practices in the U.S. and abroad. We welcome papers that address a range of cultural policy issues, from public subsidies for the arts to intellectual property, cultural heritage to creative industries, public broadcasting to cultural diplomacy, arts education to the arts and technology. Participation is invited from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, sociology, political science, management, economics, law, arts education, history and art history, and museum studies, as well as applied policy and management perspectives. Proposals for papers will be welcome in all these areas. The main theme of the 2006 conference is Comparative Perspectives on Cultural Policy Change, including policy transfer and policy learning. Another important conference theme will be the Creative Industries that will be dealt with on the overlapping day of the STP&A and ACEI (Association for Cultural Economics International) conference (see below). However, papers on the wide range of topics noted above are encouraged. Proposals should be submitted by email (as .doc or .pdf) and include all contact information for at least one author. Paper proposals should be no more than one page; panel proposals should include an overall abstract that lists the participants, paper titles as well as supplementary abstracts for each paper (limited to one page each). For more information, CLICK HERE.