The Japan Association of Cultural Economics (JACE) is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the First Asian Workshop on Cultural Economics.  This Workshop will be the kick-off event leading to the biannual conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) in Kyoto, Japan in June 2012.  The Workshop will welcome papers in English from international, young researchers, both based in Asian countries and those residing in Japan, that will contribute to discussions and exchanges of ideas on some selected topics in the field of cultural economics as widely defined between Japanese and international participants. The conference will be held at Kyoto Campus of Doshisha University for two days on 27 and 28 November 2011. 

The First Asian Workshop on Cultural Economics will provide a forum for papers from young researchers on the broadly-defined areas of the cultural/creative economy and creative cities.  The working language will be English.  The paper does not need to be based on economics, but could be from diverse disciplines such as sociology, geography and policy studies.  The Workshop will consist of ten papers, each of which will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for comments and discussion.  Between the papers, three Workshop leaders, who have extensive research experiences in cultural economics and the cultural economy, will discuss their recent research findings related to the creative economy.  After the last paper on Monday 28th November, there will be a visit to cultural sites in the city of Kyoto.