10 September 2024
University of Roma Tre, European Research Council project HolyLab,
Invited Speaker: “Early modern account books: methodologies and approaches”.
4 September 2024
Accounting History Conference, University of Siena,
Keynote Speaker: “Ratio-nality: Accounting, Rhetoric and the Mistery of Values”.
4 July 2024
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Studies Conference,
Invited Panellist: “The institutional context of interdisciplinary research”.
24 June 2024
ENROAC Summer School,
Keynote speaker: “Collegiality and academia. The void as a productive voice for interdisciplinary research and education”.
4 April 2024
Copenhagen Business School,
Keynote speaker: “Accounting for Nature: Imagining environmentally and socially sustainable organizations”.
28 February 2024
University of Birmingham Business School,
Keynote speaker: “Is the University outside the University now?”.
12 January 2024
University of Venice,
Keynote speaker: “Is the University outside the University now?”.
9 November 2023
Audencia Business School,
Keynote speaker: “Multi-capital accounting and Positive impact: practice, challenges and perspectives”.
1 October 2023
The University of York,
Invited speaker: “Nothing saves the world: accounting for nature and the common good”.
21 September 2023
Stockholm School of Economics,
Invited speaker: “Nothing saves the world: accounting for nature and the common good”.
13 June 2023
WU (Vienna School of Economics and Business),
Invited speaker: “Inquiries into the mystery of value”.
8 June 2023
Green & Blue Festival, La Repubblica, Milan (Italy)
Invited panelist: “Rewarding Nature in the Financial Reports: Accounting for Natural Capital and Exploitation”.
1-2 June 2023
Culture of Encounter and the Global Agenda Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Invited Speaker: “Beyond Reductionism: The Critical Importance of Mystery and Encounter”.
8-9 March 2023
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Invited Speaker: “Accounting can save the world. How to bring Nature on financial reports”, Accounting department seminar series.
12 April 2023
ESCP Business School, Paris, France
5th Interdisciplinary Leader Award Lecture: “Is the university now outside the university? Interdisciplinarity in liminal and marginal spaces”, EIASM Interdisciplinary Leader Award Ceremony.
10 February 2023
HEC, Paris, France
Invited Speaker: “Beyond Transparency? Budgeting and planning at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale“, Accounting department seminar series.
8 February 2023
Sheffield University, UK
Invited Speaker: “Accounting can save the world!”, Accounting department seminar series.
29 January-1 February 2023
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Invited Speaker: “The House of collegiality and what can burn it? Collegiate governance in an Oxford college”, University collegiality research programme.
14 November 2022
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Invited Speaker: “Magic numbers, figures and digits: the power of tricks and wonder-full quantifications from accounting to cryptocurrency”, Accounting Department Seminar Series.
11-13 November 2022
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Invited Speaker: “Accounting for (invisible) institutional values”, Cross-roads seminar on “Invisible Work” in the IOA Conversation series.
6-7 October 2022
Università di Bologna, Italy
Invited Speaker: “Publishing in top-tier journal in Organization Theory”, Early Career Paper Development Workshop.
28-30 June 2022
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Invited Speaker: “Common good, collective institutional commitment, and the generative power of ambiguous quantifications at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (1943–1973)” Fifth Lugano Conference on Organizations.
14 April 2022
LUMSA, Palermo,Italy
Invited Speaker: “Beyond the visible, the material and the performative”. Paper development workshop.
18 March 2022
Ordem dos Contabilistas Certificados, Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Speaker: “Accounting and Technology: Past, Present and Future”
11 February 2022
Rutgers University, USA
Invited Speaker: “Does corporate social and environmental reporting really matter? ‘It depends’ on what?” The Questions & Unanswers About Social Innovation (QUASI) seminar Series
1 February 2022
University of Oslo, Norway
Invited Speaker: “Beyond the Visible, the Material and the Performative: Shifting Perspectives on the Visual in Organization Studies”
2 December 2021
Bayes Business School, London, UK
Invited Speaker: “The poverty of measurement. How issue fields unfold around the lack of shared meaning”
1 December 2021
Cardiff Business School
Invited Speaker: “How to publish in top-tier internationsl journals? God knows…”
18 November 2021
European Parliamentary Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Organized by PwC and ICAEW, Brussels
Panelist: “Bringing nature into corporate decision-making: challenges and opportunities ahead”
13 October 2021
Manchester Festival on Climate Action, UK
Keynote speaker: “How can accounting save the world?“
2 June 2021
Essex Business School Seminar series, Essex, UK
Keynote speaker: “Accounting, Organizations and the Italian Society: The Case of the Instituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)“
26-28 May 2021
43rd European Accounting Association Annual Congress
Panellist: “Management accounting revolution through digital transformation: threat or opportunity?“
29 April 2021
Joint Tampere-Turku Seminar, Tampere, Finland (hopefully!)
Invited speaker: “TBC“
24 March 2021
Inaugural Lecture: “The Value of Nothing. Accounting in the Post-Truth Era”
5 February 2021
ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
Invited speaker: “Mystery and Institutional Logics: Objectual Mystery in the Jesuit Spiritual Exercises (1522–1922)“
29 January 2021
Schulich School of Business , Toronto, Canada
Invited speaker: “Inquiries into the Mystery of Value: Busgeting and Planning at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)“
19 January 2021
ESSEC Business School, Paris, France (hopefully!)
Invited speaker: “Inquiries into the Mystery of Value: Busgeting and Planning at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)“
26-27 November 2020
Monforma (Monash Forum in Management Accounting), Melbourne, Australia
Keynote speaker: “On the Mystery of Value. How Accounting Speaks Naturally to Social, Environmental, and Governance Issues“
10 November 2020
Impact Forum 2020 (VII S2B IMPACT FORUM, virtually in Barcelona, Spain)
Pannelist: “The challenge of integrating impact and financial accounting“
30 March 2020 – Cancelled due to covid-19
Nova Business School & Portuguese Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Lisbon,
Keynote speaker: “Accounting in the digital world“
18 March 2020 – Cancelled due to covid-19
King’s CollegeBusiness School, London,
Keynote speaker: “Inquiries into the Mystery of Value. Accounting for the ‘common good’. The case of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) (1948-1973)“
13 February 2020
Collége des Bernadines, Paris
Keynote speaker: “On the destruction, production and distribution of resources: an accounting perspective“
Part of the research programme on ‘Entreprises humaines: Ecologie & Philosophies comptables‘
30 October 2019
University of Sydney, Sydney
Invited speaker: “Inquiries into the Mystery of Value. Accounting for the ‘common good’. The case of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) (1948-1973)“
16 October 2019
Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester
Invited speaker: “Accounting for the ‘common good’. The case of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) (1948-1973)“
11-13 September 2019
Strategy, Organization and Society (SOS) | International Research & PhD Workshop | EM Lyon
Invited Faculty member “The mystery of value. Accounting for the common good at the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI)“
4-6 July 2019
EGOS Annual conference, Edinburgh
Panelist: “Other organizations: the Jesuits“
10 June 2019
ISSTI Retreat, Edinburgh
Keynote speaker: “The mystery of value“
5 June 2019
University of Birmingham Business School, Birmingham
Invited speaker: “Accounting for the ‘common good’. The case of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) (1948-1973)“
24 May 2019
42nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Paphos (Cyprus)
Plenary Speaker (PhD Forum): “What is accounting for? Researching, practicing and engaging for the common good“
15 May 2019
Royal Holloway, London
Invited speaker to the launch of the centre for Critical and Historical work in and for Organisation and Society (CHRONOS), Invited speaker: “Engaging society with critical research: the value of history and the history of value“
26 April 2019
Accounting and Society Conference, Ivey Business School, Western University, London (Ontario, Canada),
Invited speaker: “A Manifesto for a Religious Sociology: Institutional life, death and the taken-for-granted“
8 April 2019
Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen
Invited speaker: “Accounting Figures, Numbers and Digits: Implications for Decision-making“
7 March 2019
Universidad Complutense de Madrid and UNED, Departamento de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Madrid,
Invited speaker: “Accounting for the ‘common good’. The case of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale (IRI) (1948-1973)“
2 July 2018
Global Operations and Supply Chain Conference, Soesterberg, The Netherlands,
Keynote speaker: “Governing Change. Ambiguity, unknowns and technological disruptions“
24 June 2018
NESTA Incontra Palermo
Panelist: “Culture Inclusive: Sperimentare oltre le buone pratiche“
28-9 May 2018
International conference on:
Make Integrated Thinking Happen: Aligning Corporate Purpose with Sustainable Strategy
Invited speaker:
“Questions beyond Answers: Integrated Thinking as Maieutic Machine“
9 April 2018
Audit Future/BAFA roundtable on Rethinking Business Education, Westminster City Hall, London,
Invited panelist
13 March 2018
Infrastructure and Project Authority, UK Cabinet, Annual Conference, London
Invited speaker:
“Maieutic machines“
8 February 2018
University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, School Seminar Series
Invited speaker:
“Publish or Perish? How to Publish in top-tier management Journals; my experience with ASQ“
7 February 2018
University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, Accounting & Finance Seminar Series
Invited speaker:
“Figures not numbers: Legitimacy, Symmetry, Accounting Rhetoric and the search for ‘socie-ties‘“
22 November, 2017
University of Essex, Accounting & Finance Seminar series
Invited speaker
15-6 November, 2017
Making Truth – Administrating Truth. Establishing Credibility in Early Modern History
Interdisciplinary and international conference of the German Historical Institute in Rome, Academia Belgica Rome, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Universiteit Gent.
Invited speaker:
“In Search of Value: Mystery and Accounting Practices in the Jesuit Order“
9 November, 2017
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, “Rethinking Accountability and Transparency” workshop
Invited speaker:
“Against transparency: or on what would serve transparency better“
11 October, 2017
University Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Accounting department seminar series
Invited speaker:
“Figures not numbers: Legitimacy, Symmetry, Accounting Rhetoric and the search for ‘socie-ties”
18 September 2017
RMIT (Melbourne), the RMIT Governance and Sustainability Conference
Keynote speaker:
“Governing through visualisations: ambiguity, unknowns and technological disruptions“
6-8 September, 2017
University of Cambridge, Conservation Research Institute, Workshop on ‘Building new bridges between accounting research and conservation’
Keynote speaker:
“Who said accounting was boring? Rhetoric and the making of socie-ties“
27 April, 2017
LUISS Business School, Rome
Invited speaker:
“Embracing ambiguity in management controls and decision-making processes: On how to design data visualisations to prompt wise judgment“
24 April 2017
ESSEC, (Paris, France), School Seminar Series
Invited Speaker:
“Embracing ambiguity in management controls and decision-making processes: On how to design data visualisations to prompt wise judgment“
13 April 2017
EM Lyon, (France), School seminar series
Invited speaker:
“We live in uncertain times: learning from accounting, rhetoric and the power of visualizations“
9-10 March 2017
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, (Vallendar, Germany), Annual Conference on Management Accounting Research
Keynote speaker: “Management Control Goes Digital: Will the Move Make it Wiser?“
14 February 2017
University of Newcastle, School Seminar Series.
Invited speaker:
“Figures not numbers: Legitimacy, Symmetry, Accounting Rhetoric and the search for ‘socie-ties”
31 January 2017
The UK Home Office, (UK), Digital, Data and Technology Annual Event (The Oval, Kennington)
Keynote speaker:
“Embracing ambiguity in managing major programmes”
15 November 2016
University of York, School seminar series
Invited speaker:
“Figures not Numbers: Legitimacy, Rhetoric, Accounting and the making of ‘socie-ties“
7 November 2016
ICAEW, PD Leake Lecture
“Embracing ambiguity in management control and decision-making processes”
16 June 2016
ICSA, the Governance institute, The ICSA Scotland Conference.
Keynote speaker: “Governing ‘socie-ties’“
19 May 2016
Royal Holloway, London, Workshop on Organisational spaces
Invited speaker: “The architecture of accounting knowledge: accounting, space and the invention of social order“
18 May 2016
King’s College, London, School seminar series.
Invited speaker: “Figures not Numbers: Legitimacy, Rhetoric, Accounting and the making of ‘socie-ties’’
9 May 2016
Infrastructure & Project Authority, UK Cabinet, Portfolio and Management Network.
Invited Speaker: “Reporting, Governance and Leadership in Major Programme Management“
15 March 2016
Public Sector Effective Governance, Edinburgh.
Invited speaker: “Accounting for Wise Governance“
2 December 2015
University of Glasgow, Faculty of Theology seminar series
Invited speaker: “Accounting for God“
2015
4th Workshop of the European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities, Venice
Invited speaker: “Dreaming of a European Interdisciplinary PhD programme in Management Studies“
21-24 September 2015
University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, Summer School on Social entrepreneurship and sustainability: from social to business model innovation.
Invited Speaker: Accounting as Social Innovation
16 September 2015
Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen
Invited speaker: Figures, not Numbers. Symmetry, Accounting Legitimacy and the construction of Socie-ties.
18-19 June 2015
Global Management Accounting Research Symposium (GMARS), Copenhagen
Keynote speaker: “This is not a target cost! Reporting (and Governance) Practices in Major Programme Management“.
12 June 2015
SPRU Freeman Friday Seminars at the University of Sussex, UK
Invited speaker: Finance Matters: Accounting, Doubt and Invention
3 June 2015
Biannual Conference the European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change (ENROAC)
Invited speaker: The Future of Reporting
4 May 2015
University of Palermo, Alumni of the University Talks
Invited speaker: Finance is always beyond Finance
25 April 2015
Mapping the Frontiers of High Finance (2015), UK, The Royal Anthropological Institute and London School of Financial Arts.
Invited speaker: Finance Matters: Accounting, Doubt and Invention
17 April 2015
Management Accounting Research 25th Anniversary Conference, the London School of Economics.
Invited panelist: The Future of Management Accounting Research
15 April 2015
University of Edinburgh
Chair inaugural lecture: Accounting, Governance and Social innovation. Establishing the links
2 March 2015
Edinburgh College of Arts
Invited speaker: Accounting symmetries
30 March 2015
Belgian Institute of Management Accountants and Controllers, ‘BIMAC’s Controllers’ day’, Louven.
Keynote Speaker: Management control goes digital: will this move make controllers wiser?
26 February 2015
University of Edinburgh Business School & Chartered Institute of Management Accounting
Panelist: Rethinking Reporting Practices. Integrated Reporting: the way forward?
4 February 2015
Audencia Nantes School of Management, France (2015),
Invited speaker: A Procedural Approach to Institutional Logics. Unfolding Rationality in the Jesuit Order.
18 December 2014
Urrutia-Elejalde Foundation, Madrid
Invited speaker: Is there a University outside the university?
19 November 2014
Italian Studies at Oxford seminar series
Invited speaker: Unfolding rationality in Post-Reformation Italy. The Jesuit Order as a Memory Machine
22 October 2014
University of Warwick, Department of Information Systems.
Invited speaker: Finance Matters. Doubt, Inventory and Invention.
16-17 October 2014
Mines ParisTech (Ecole des Mines) ‘Capitalizing on Performativity’ conference
Invited speaker: Finance Matters. Doubt, Inventory and Invention.
26 September 2014
University of St Gallen, Humanities’ Business workshop.
Invited Speaker: Human Business
3 August 2014
Academy of Management Annual Conference, PDW on Visuality: Beyond the Power of Words
Invited panellist: Accounting and the visual.
13-15 July 2014
Biannual Summer School of the European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change (ENROAC).
Invited member of the Faculty
12-13 June 2014
University of Lucerne, Conference on Evaluations: Cases, experiments and models as tools of appropriation and valuation
Invited speaker: Finance Matters. Doubt, Inventory and Invention.
5 May 2014
Sciences-Po, AIME workshop on: “LET’S CALCULATE: Reinventing Accounting with Bruno Latour?”
Invited speaker: Operationalizing doubt. Accounting, Inventory and Invention