KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

MARIANGELA PUGLISI
Associate Professor of Numismatics
(qualified as full Professor)
at the University of Messina
Her research interests range from iconography to coin circulation, with a particular focus on Sicily, ancient Lucania, Thessaly, and digital numismatics.
She is a member of the Board of the PhD Programme in Humanities at the University of Messina.
In 2018, she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Numismatic Society (New York), for which she was awarded the Eric P. Newman Medal.
Her scientific research has received several national and international awards, including the XVI INC Silver Medal 2022 (Mint of Poland), the Henry Grunthal Medal 2018 (New York), the Norske Numismatiske Forening Medal 2013 (Oslo), and the Anassilaos Prize (1995, 2010, RC).
She is a member of the American Numismatic Society (ANS, New York), the Royal Numismatic Society (RNS, London), the Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique (KBGN-SRNB, Brussels), and the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti of Messina.
She served as Secretary of the Organising and Scientific Committee of the XV International Numismatic Congress (Taormina, 2015), and as Organiser and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Coin Findings and Digital Numismatics – 8th Joint Meeting of ECFN and nomisma.org (Messina, 2019).
She is currently a member of several scientific and editorial boards of Italian and international series and journals.

CHERYL MCWATTERS
Full Professor of Accounting and Control
at the University of Ottawa
Full Professor of Accounting and Control at the University of Ottawa, Cheryl brings the study of commerce and the varieties of capitalism to the classroom. Editor of Accounting History Review, and associate editor of Accounting Perspectives, she is also member of the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, and Accounting Historians Journal. Cheryl has been active in a variety of professional and international research organisations, including most recently on the executive and as president of the AHMO and CAAA. In August 2023, she was promoted to Departmental Editor at the Journal of Operations Management after serving as associate editor of the journal since 2014. This promotion recognises her efforts to support and develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Cheryl’s research focuses on accounting and its implication in diverse social, cultural, and multi-faceted institutional contexts, from eighteenth-century mercantilism to twentieth-century psychiatric practice. Her edited volume, Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship (2019), demonstrates the transdisciplinary nature of her research collaborations. Currently, with her longstanding colleague, Yannick Lemarchand, she is preparing a monograph, Accounting Narrative and the Slave Trade: The Work, Life and Times of Claude Gaignat, 1719-1791, to be published with Routledge in 2025.