12月21日，由山东财经大学，中国会计博物馆，美国布莱恩特大学，澳大利亚悉尼大学、墨尔本皇家理工大学、伍伦贡大学和新西兰梅西大学联合发起，由山东会计博物馆筹建委员会具体承办的首届“会计文化与东方文明”国际高端论坛在山东潍坊举办。布莱恩特项目会计系主任George Mickhail 教授受邀参加的论坛并作主题发言。

George Mickhail教授就已故世界著名会计史研究者Michael J R Gaffikin教授的思想流派作了大会发言。Mickhail指出他的已故悉尼大学同事Raymond Chambers教授对其博士生Michael J R Gaffikin产生了重大影响，并提到他离开悉尼大学来到澳大利亚卧龙岗大学加入Michael J R Gaffikin教授的那段时间，他们合作挑战欧洲在会计研究中的知识优势和偏见，他们通过向会计专业学生及从业者引进如批判理论、符号学、马克思主义等的各种理论的方法，来反对新自由主义和垄断资本主义对会计学和社会的攻击。Mickhail教授最后强调了Gaffikin教授对会计史研究和社会的宝贵贡献。George Mickhail教授的主题发言获得与会专家学者的一致认同，《人民日报》（山东版）报道了此次会议，潍坊电视台会后采访了George Mickhail教授。

George Mickhail、江时学、袁为鹏等国内外30余位著名会计学专家分别就东西方会计文化、中国会计史研究现状、会计发展与技术变革、国际关系视角下的会计文明等12个问题作了主题报告，进行了圆桌讨论。会场气氛非常热烈，各位专家、学者都做了精彩的发言，表达了许多视角独到、富有创见的观点，提出一些颇具参考价值的对策和建议，展现出深厚的学术功底。

本次论坛旨在传承弘扬会计文化、推进会计事业发展，与会专家学者讨论了会计学科所面临的的困境与解决之道，在交流中碰撞出思想火花与灵感，对布莱恩特项目会计学的专业建设有良好的启迪作用和方向指引。

Professor George Mickhail was invited to attend the 1st Conference on "Accounting, Culture and Oriental Civilization”, which was held on 21 December 2019 and organized by the Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Weifang Accounting Museum and the Bureau of Public Finance in Weifang (Shandong Province). He gave a plenary speech on the School of Thought of a world-famous Accounting History Researcher; the late Emeritus Professor Michael J R Gaffikin at the Conference.

Professor Mickhail pointed out how his late colleague Emeritus Professor Raymond Chambers at the University of Sydney (Australia) had great influence on the school of thought of his PhD student Professor Michael Gaffikin.   Professor Mickhail then spoke of the time when he left the University of Sydney to join Professor Gaffikin at the University of Wollongong in Australia. They collaborated on challenging the influence of Anglo-European intellectual dominance and bias in accounting research.  They countered the assault by neoliberalism and Monopoly Capitalism on accounting and society by introducing their students and the accounting profession to a variety of ideas and approaches like Critical Theory, Semiotics and Marxism.  In concluding his talk, Professor Mickhail highlighted the invaluable contributions by Professor Gaffikin to accounting history research and society.

The conference and the talk were reported in the People’s Daily (Shandong edition) and Professor Mickhail’s was interviewed by Weifang TV station.  

Professor Mickhail said that he was delighted to visit Weifang and was very grateful to the conference organisers. He was particularly touched by the kind, friendly and generous hospitality shown to him by the Party Secretary of Weifang Bureau of Finance, the Curator of the Accounting Museum and the Head of Accounting and Faculty at Shandong University of Finance and Economics.

撰写：邓海天、何浔子

编辑：何浔子

审核：肖艳光