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 Biennial congresses
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Members are able to register for the IAEA Congresses at
significantly reduced rates. The New York (2000) congress featured 170
presentations by participants from 30 countries. The Takarazuka
congress (Japan 2002) had 150 presentations and more than 170
participants attended the 2004 meeting in Lisbon. Keynote addresses
are given by the recipients of the awards (Fechner, Galton and Baumgarten
Award) as well as invited papers. The 2006 congress in Avignon was a great success, the 2008 Chicago congress had keynote adresses of Robert Sternberg, Diana Deutsch and Paul Locher.
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Topical conferences
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The Association co-sponsored Conferences on Art and Emotion in 1991 and 1997,
Conference on Mathematics and Art in 1996 (all in Russia). In 1999 a congress on
Aesthetics and Education was held at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (Portugal)
and 2005 had two sponsored conferences, one is the International Congress on Aesthetics:
Creativity and Psychology of the Arts (June 1-3, 2005; Perm, Russia) and the other one
is the International Symposium on Empirical Aesthetics: Culture, Art and Education
(Taipei, Taiwan, September 28-30, 2005). Similar conferences are being planned in
various locations for future years.
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Empirical Studies of the Arts (ESA)
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Empirical Studies of the Arts (ESA), the official peer reviewed
journal of the Association which appears twice yearly (Baywood Publishing Company,
Amityville, N.Y., U.S.A.), is included in the dues at a deeply discounted
rate. Members are able to purchase all back issues of Empirical Studies
of the Arts, which have been published since 1983, at discounted rates.
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The IAEA Newsletter: Flash News IAEA (FNI)
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This electronic service sends the most up-to-date information on
all related activities in the field of empirical aesthetics to members
via e-mail (e.g., call for papers of interesting congresses and conferences,
research projects and vocational positions in the field, etc.).
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Reduced subscription fees
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Reduced subscription fees for journals of interest to members.
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Discounted prices for books
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Discounted prices for books in the new Foundations and Frontiers
in Aesthetics book series jointly sponsored by the International
Association of Aesthetics and the International Association of
Empirical Aesthetics. Volumes being planned are English translations
of Fechner's Vorschule der Aesthetik and of several classic works on
Chinese theories of aesthetics, an anthology of classic works of
18th-century British aesthetics.
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Reduced dues for scholars
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Reduced or waived dues for scholars in regions currently having
exchange-rate difficulties. These reductions are funded by the
D.E. Berlyne Fund and the François Molnar Fund, to which members
who can afford to are asked to contribute.
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Reduced membership fees for students
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Reduced membership fees for students as well as special conditions for
students who are participating in the biennial congresses of IAEA.
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IAEA Awards
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On the occasion of the congresses
three awards are given to researchers of high recognition in the field of empirical aesthetics: the Gustav-Theodor-Fechner-Award,
the Sir-Francis-Galton- Award, and the Alexander-Gottlieb-Baumgarten-Award. Also, fellows
are named every two years at the congresses of IAEA.
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