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