The second Alternative Accounts Europe Conference will be hosted by the University of Leicester School of Business on Thursday 9 January 2020.
The conference aims to bring together scholars interested in interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounts and accountings. We invite scholars to challenge dominant representations of accounting and to present alternative accounts of accounting practice, its diverse and multiple histories, contexts and constituents.
We are seeking contributions in the form of working papers but particularly encourage colleagues to present their material in non-conventional formats and utilise multiple media.
Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to:
Accountability
Accounting for the public interest, plurality of publics, diversity
Accounting profession, contested expertise, accounting scandals
Audit, ethics, corporate governance and organisational culture
Accounting as political practice, political economy, biopolitics, neoliberalism
Accounting and social conflict, industrial relations, counter-accounting
Interplay of management accounting practices, internal accountants and external consultants
Formalities and informalities of management controls and performance measurement systems
Social and environmental accounting, health and wellbeing accounting, biodiversity and ecological accounting
Accounting and imperialism, post-colonial accounting
Accounting aesthetics and organisational symbolism
Accounting cosmologies, non-human accounts, multi-species accounting
Social studies of finance and valuation
Vernacular forms of accounting, iconographic and audio-visual accounts
Divergent, polyphonic and pluripolar accounting histories
Accounts of the digital: new accounts and new ways of accounting for digitalisation
Keynote speakers
Ingrid Jeacle (Edinburgh)
Ian Thompson (Birmingham)
Abstracts
Please submit an extended abstract by 31 October 2019 to rasa@leicester.ac.uk Authors will hear back from us by 15 November 2019.
Please feel free to get in touch with our conference organising team for any queries regarding potential submissions by email to rasa@leicester.ac.uk
Research in Accounting, Accountability and Society Unit (RASA)
Register
You can register to attend this conference here.