[ecrea] the state, the arts and popular culture

Below is the CFP that Dave O'Brien attempted to circulate earlier.

This is a link to a PDF of the flyer: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5g3ns8tas2zrcrn/%E2%80%9CTHE%20STATE%2C%20THE%20ARTS%20%26%20POPULAR%20CULTURE%E2%80%9D%20.pdf


CALL FOR PAPERS for a RESEARCH WORKSHOP
and a special issue of CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING:

“THE STATE, THE ARTS & POPULAR CULTURE”

New Public Sector Seminar, Edinburgh, 7-8th November 2013

Co-Chairs: Ingrid Jeacle, Irvine Lapsley, Peter Miller

This research workshop is interdisciplinary and welcomes contributions 
from all disciplines interested in the arts and popular culture. 
However, the primary focus of this event is on the role of accounting in 
framing and shaping everyday experiences of culture and cultural 
phenomena in contemporary society. The role of accountants and auditors 
has assumed a marked significance in recent decades; they have come to 
embody one of the central forms of expertise shaping management 
practices, organisational processes and regulatory mechanisms in many 
organisational settings. Equally, the potential impact of accounting, 
and calculative practices more generally, has an increasingly extensive 
reach. There is substantial evidence of the influence of accounting work 
in, for instance, central and local government, hospitals, higher and 
further education. Such influence within the sphere of the State 
continues despite debates over the status of professional accounting 
expertise and critiques of the provenance, uniqueness and usefulness of 
accounting and auditing. This research workshop seeks to extend our 
understandings of the intermingling of accounting practices and 
bureaucratic procedures in the context of the world of culture. This is 
a research arena which may yield rich insights into the role of 
accountants, auditors and calculative practices in the shaping of social 
and economic life. This workshop is interested in research which may 
address inter alia the following questions:

 What do accountants do in the name of neutrality, in the domain of 
creative and cultural organisations?

What devices and tools do accountants and auditors deploy in the 
cultural sphere?

What role do calculative practices play in the shaping of cultural events?

How do leading accounting firms and consultants facilitate the 
‘travelling’ of ideas and interventions (whether from the private to the 
public sector, or across different public service domains)

What bodies of expertise do accountants and consultants depend on in the 
management of cultural organisations, and what is the status of that 
expertise?

How do accountants engaged in the management of cultural entities 
communicate their knowledge and advice? How are these practices changing?

How might we theorise the influence of auditors and accountants and 
their expertise in the context of culture and the arts?

We seek contributions that have an accounting, management, regulatory or 
policy making dimension, and which may be theoretical, empirical or 
methodological, or a combination. The research may be contemporary, 
historical or comparative. We are particularly interested in novel and 
creative approaches to the investigation of these phenomena. This 
seminar also has a doctoral forum, and offers of papers from doctoral 
students are welcome.

The submission deadline for the workshop and is 30th June 2013. Earlier 
submissions welcome. Completed papers will be preferred. Manuscripts 
should be sent electronically (in a Word file format) to 
(Irvine.Lapsley /at/ ed.ac.uk)<mailto:(Irvine.Lapsley /at/ ed.ac.uk)> and copied to 
(Yvonne.Crichton /at/ ed.ac.uk)<mailto:(Yvonne.Crichton /at/ ed.ac.uk)>. There is a 
modest conference fee for participants with a limited number of 
conference fee waivers for doctoral students. If you are interested in 
attending, but not presenting, contact 
(Yvonne.Crichton /at/ ed.ac.uk)<mailto:(Yvonne.Crichton /at/ ed.ac.uk)>



Dr. Paul Long
Reader in Media and Cultural History
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
Birmingham School of Media
Birmingham City University
Perry Barr
B42 2SU

tel: 0121-331-5468

Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research

Recruiting for 2013: MA Music Heritage.

http://bcu.academia.edu/PaulLong

http://paullong.posterous.com/

http://culturecloudproject.org/

http://immhive.posterous.com/



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