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The Management, Spirituality & Religion (MSR) Research Committee warmly invites you to submit a presentation proposal for the 2026 MSR Research Colloquium, "The Mystical and Research", to be held virtually on June 11–12, 2026. The colloquium will take place as a 24–36 hour global, around-the-clock gathering beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. on June 11.

This colloquium creates space for scholars engaging with the mystical-not only as an object of study, but as a lived and transformative dimension of inquiry. Mystical experience often resists conventional research approaches, inviting us to reconsider assumptions about evidence, knowledge, and representation. In response, we open a space for exploring ways of knowing that integrate intellectual rigor with contemplative, embodied, and experiential depth.

Sessions are envisioned as spaces that may engage three interwoven modes of inquiry-thinking, doing, and being-inviting presenters to share not only their research, but also practices, reflections, and questions that support collective exploration. We welcome a range of session formats, including single- and multi-presenter sessions, panels, dialogues, as well as approaches that engage embodied, artistic, or creative forms of inquiry where meaningful.

Proposals are invited across three thematic areas: mystical experience and spiritual awakening, researching the mystical, and spiritual transformation in academic life. We particularly welcome work that engages the creative tension between scholarly credibility and openness to what the mystical may ask of the researcher.

📅 Proposal deadline: April 25, 2026

🔗 Full Call and submission details:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSZnL6Of5LkmxwNqtXeVbkQWHxFgeqTq/view

We look forward to gathering with you in shared inquiry at the threshold of knowing.

MSR Research Committee

(Tianyuan Yu, Naida Culshaw, Stacey Guenther, Konstantin Weicht, and Gaëtan Mourmant)

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Tianyuan Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax NS Canada

Representative-at-Large (Research)
Management, Spirituality & Religion Division, Academy of Management
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Dear friends and colleagues,

A gentle reminder that the Call for Presentation Proposals for the upcoming MSR Research Colloquium is currently open, with the submission deadline approaching on April 25.

This year's theme, "The Mystical and Research: Dwelling at the Threshold of Knowing," invites us to engage with questions that often sit just beyond the reach of our usual ways of knowing, yet remain deeply present in our work, our experiences, and our lives as scholars.

We warmly welcome contributions from diverse traditions, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to conventional research presentations, the colloquium opens space for more interactive, reflective, and experiential forms of engagement where ideas can be explored not only as arguments, but as lived inquiries.

If you've been considering submitting, this is a gentle nudge as the deadline draws near. We would be delighted to hear from you!

✨ Submission deadline: April 25, 2026

🔗 Full call and submission details: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSZnL6Of5LkmxwNqtXeVbkQWHxFgeqTq/view

🔗 Online submission form:

https://forms.gle/YE2LhC2csEeaDYFc6

🔗 Colloquium website:

https://msr.aom.org/events/colloquium

We look forward to gathering with you in shared inquiry at the threshold of knowing.

MSR Research Committee

(Tianyuan Yu, Naida Culshaw, Stacey Guenther, Konstantin Weicht, and Gaëtan Mourmant)

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Tianyuan Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax NS Canada

Representative-at-Large (Research)
Management, Spirituality & Religion Division, Academy of Management
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