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Wednesday 11 February 2026 – Main Conference Day 1

Room 1050, Level 1, University of Sydney Business School, H70

Time	Session	Details	Presenters
08.15 – 09.00	Registration	Tea and Coffee
09.00 – 09.15	Opening	Welcome Address
09.15 – 10.15	Paper 1	Traceability infrastructuring and the making of market traces: How the pharmaceutical market is made knowable to organizations	Chiara Bottausci Keith Robson
10.15 – 11.15	Paper 2	Constructing and navigating credibility in unregulated assurance markets	Conor Clune
11.15 – 11.45	Morning tea
11.45 – 12.45	Paper 3	When fairness becomes control: Identity work and the credibility calculus when opt‑in correctives enter academic performance measurement	Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves Alessandro Ghio Darren Baker
12.45 – 13.45	Lunch
13.45 – 14.45	Paper 4	The accounting of being: How digital surveillance technologies create authenticity crises	Leona Wiegmann Aldonio Ferreira
14.45 – 15.45	Paper 5	Accounting for social control: How naming, counting and costing shapes refugee flows	Annette Quayle Shamima Haque
15.45 – 16.15	Afternoon tea
16.15 – 17.15	Paper 6	Constructing global climate-related risk reporting: Organizing dissonance in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)	Brendan O’Dwyer
17.15 – 18.00	Invited talk	The Death of News: The Past, Present and Future of Public Interest Journalism	Clinton Free
18.00	Canapes and Dinner	Level 5, Refectory, University of Sydney Business School, H70

Thursday 12 February 2026 – Main Conference Day 2

Room 1050, Level 1, University of Sydney Business School, H70

Time	Session	Details	Presenters
08.00 – 09.00		AOS editorial board meeting Level 2 Boardroom Building H69
08.45 – 09.15	Registration	Tea and Coffee
09.15 – 10.15	Plenary	Accounting for the elusive: Values, emotions and the ghostliness of accounting	Andrea Mennicken
10.15 – 10.45	Morning tea
10.45 – 11.45	Paper 7	Accounting design as an experimental system and the dynamic emergence of knowledge: A study on the design of calls for tenders to select consultants in the public sector	Eléonore Brouard Keith Robson Chiara Bottausci
11.45 – 12.45	Paper 8	Making up preparers and the scripting of non-financial reporting standards	Matthew Hall Damien Lambert Richard Pucci Paul Thambar
12.45 – 13.45	Lunch
13.45 – 14.45	Paper 9	Lingering accounts: How feedback loops keep fragile sustainability KPIs alive	Vera Linke Lukas Löhlein Johannes Pauleikhoff Utz Schäffer
14.45 – 15.00	Closing