SOCIETY FOR GESTALT THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
invited submissions for the
 | Wolfgang Metzger Award 2011 | |
This award - presented by the international multidisciplinary Society
for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA) - is named after the late honorary chairman Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang
Metzger, a student of Max Wertheimer and one of the leading members of the second generation of the Berlin School of Gestalt theory.
In the first period of this award it was granted by decision of the board of directors of the GTA to eminent people in Gestalt science and research for outstanding achievements. In 1987, the award went to Gaetano Kanizsa and Riccardo Luccio (Italy) and in 1989 it went to Gunnar Johansson (Sweden).
Since 1999 the award has been granted every second or third year by the board of directors of the GTA based on an international public award contest and a screening and review of the submittals by an international scientific Award Committee. The first prize winners since 1999 were: Giovanni Bruno Vicario (Italy) and Yoshie Kiritani (Japan), in 1999; Peter Ulric Tse (USA), in 2002; Fredrik Sundqvist (Sweden), in 2005; Cees van Leeuwen (NL/Japan), in 2007 and in 2009 Baingio Pinna (Italy).
Applicants for the Metzger Award 2011 had to submit a scientific paper (in English or German) inspired by Gestalt theory and that contributes to the research or the application of Gestalt theory in the physical sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, the economic sciences, or any other field of human studies. Hence, the paper could deal with a subject from psychology, philosophy, medicine, arts, architecture, linguistics, musicology or other fields of research or application of research as long as it is inspired by a Gestalt theoretical approach.
The first prize winner will receive € 1000, will be invited as the award speaker to the 16th international Scientific Convention of the GTA in 2011, and the paper will be published in Gestalt Theory - An International Multidisciplinary Journal in the submitted version or in an adapted form.
Members of the Award Committee for the 2011 contest were: Geert-Jan Boudewijnse (Montreal/Canada; chair), Silvia Bonacchi (Warsaw/Poland), Steven Lehar (Boston, MA/USA), Hellmuth Metz-Göckel (Dortmund/FRG). Submittals for the Metzger Award 2011 were due by September 2010. Read about the award decison on this page before long.
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