The 7th Alternative Accounts Europe Conference (AAE) will be held on Thursday, 9 January 2025 at the Cork University Business School. The conference will run from 10:00 to 17:00. Attendance at the conference dinner is optional and can be booked separately during the registration process.
Keynote Speakers
Our keynote speakers will be:
Professor Ileana Steccolini, Professor of Accounting and the Director of Research at Essex Business School, Essex University
Professor Helen Tregidga, Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London and currently Co-Head of the Department of Accounting and Financial Management.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 1 November 2024 (GMT)
We invite contributions to the 7th Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) conference. The AAE conference is an annual event supported by the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG). It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and backgrounds with an interest in studying accounting as a social and institutional practice broadly considered – including, but not in any way limited to, the jurisdiction of the accounting profession.
We particularly encourage contributions that challenge dominant conceptions of accounting—whether by interrogating established practice and its role in organisations and society, or by questioning our understanding of what accounting is or what it could become.
Indicative topics include:
how accounting shapes accountability, extends or narrows conceptions and practices of accountability, unaccountability;
the accounting profession, its institutions, frameworks, stakeholders, tendencies and influence;
the ethics of accounting, auditing, professional services;
accounting for sustainability, environmental and ecological accounting;
accounting’s role in activism, social conflict, social movements;
counter-accounting, social accounting, social auditing;
the politics and implications of numbers and quantification, accounting, public policy and the state;
diversity in accounting and among accountants, including, the politics of inclusion and exclusion, race, faith (or lack thereof), accounting for racial capitalism;
accounting and gender, queer accounting, accounting and social reproduction;
accounting and organisational change, organisational culture, division of professional labour;
accounting for corporate governance, including its discontents;
accounting for values and valuations, economisation, financialisation;
accounting and technological change, the advancement of automation and artificial intelligence;
management accounting, managerial control, labour process, value creation and extraction;
accounting history, past and present;
accounting and popular culture, social media, everyday accounting;
accounting and globalisation, imperialism, decolonialism, postcolonialism;
whistleblowing, giving voice through accounting, silences and silencing;
unrecognised, under-recognised, misrecognised, or marginalised accounting practices;
accounting and uncertainty, risk, ignorance, unknowability.
Submissions
Please submit your abstract of 500–1,000 words by end of 1 November 2024 to the conference email account: [email protected] . Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 22 November 2024
Participants will have the opportunity to share additional materials (digital hand-outs, slides, longer abstracts, full papers) prior to the event. Full papers are desirable but not a pre- requiste for presenting at the conference.
Registration
Conference registration will open in November 2024.
Lunch as well as tea, coffee and nibbles are included in the registration fee.
Questions?
Please contact [email protected] if you have any queries.