Program

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th, 2024
Venue: University of Siena, Aula Magna Storica, Palazzo del Rettorato
(Banchi di Sotto 55)
10:00 – 13:00 Accounting History Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium
13:00 Light lunch (only for the participants to the Doctoral Colloquium)

Venue: University of Siena, Aula Magna, Palazzo del Rettorato
(Banchi di Sotto 55)
13:45 – 14:15  Conference registration

14:30 – 15:15 Welcome and opening address (Session Chair: Federico Barnabé)

Official welcome from the University of Siena:
Roberto Di Pietra, Rector, University of Siena
Ciro Gennaro Corvese, Director of the Business and Law Dept
Angelo Riccaboni, Chair, PRIMA Foundation and President, Santa Chiara Lab
Massimo Sargiacomo, President, Italian Society of Accounting History
Carolyn Fowler, Joint Editor of Accounting History
Presentations on future AHIC conferences: 2026, 2028

15:15 – 16:30 Plenary session – Keynote speaker I
Paolo Quattrone, Alliance Manchester Business School
“Ratio-nality: Accounting, rhetoric, and the mystery of values”

16:30 – 17:00 Afternoon tea/coffee

17:00 – 18:00 Parallel session I
1. Accounting and art (1)
2. Accounting identity


18:15 – 19:30 Visit to the Civic Museum of Siena (Piazza del Campo 1)
19:30 – 21:00 Social event at the Palazzo del Rettorato (Banchi di Sotto 55)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 2024
Venue: University of Siena, School of Economics and Management
(Piazza San Francesco 7)

09:00 – 10:30   Parallel session II
1. Women and accounting education
2. Hybrid organisations
3. Small business
4. Accounting and accountability


10:30 – 11:00   Morning tea/coffee

11:00 – 12:30   Parallel session III
1. Environment and sustainability
2. Varieties of accounting
3. Accounting and inequality
4. Accounting and totalitarian regimes


12:30 – 14:00   Lunch

14:00 – 15:30   Parallel session IV
1. Accounting and art (2)
2. Accounting for ‘for purpose’ activities
3. Accounting for heritage assets
4. Historiography and methodology


15:30 – 16:00   Afternoon tea/coffee

16:00 – 17:00   Keynote speaker II (Aula Romani)
Eike Schmidt, Director of the National Museum of Capodimonte (Naples, Italy)

17:00 – 18:00   Roundtable panel (Aula Romani)
“Arts, heritage and accounting history for imagining future”
Panel Chair:      Elena Giovannoni (University of Birmingham and Siena)
Panellists:         Keith Hoskin (University of Birmingham),
                              Laura Maran (University of Trento),
                              Christopher Napier (Royal Holloway University),
                              Massimo Sargiacomo (University of Chieti-Pescara),
                              Eike Schmidt (National Museum of Capodimonte).

19:30 – 20:30   Visit to the Santa Maria della Scala Museum (Piazza del Duomo 1)
20:30   Social Dinner (Santa Maria della Scala, “Italo Calvino” room)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2024
Venue: University of Siena, School of Economics and Management
(Piazza San Francesco 7)

9:00 – 11:00   Parallel session V
1. Disasters and accounting
2. Accounting in a variety of contexts
3. The development of accounting


11:00 – 11:30   Morning tea/coffee

11:30 – 13:00   Plenary session – Keynote speaker III (Aula Cripta)
Ingrid Jeacle, University of Edinburgh Business School
“Reflections on Accounting History in the Arts, Culture & Heritage”

13:00 – 13:15   Closing session (Session Chair: Federico Barnabè)
Laura Maran, Joint Editor of Accounting History
Federico Barnabè, Conference Convener

13:15   Lunch