We're continuing our campaign to spotlight transformative sessions from the MSR Division at #AOM2026 in Philadelphia!
📍 Session Spotlight:
Drawing from the Wisdom Traditions to Challenge the Status Quo
📅 Sunday, August 2, 2026 | 3:45 PM - 6:15 PM EDT
📍 Loews Philadelphia Hotel: Third Floor, Washington A
🎯 Session ID: 23030 | Paper Session
Moderated by Professor Dharm Bhawuk, University of Hawaii, this session explores how ancient wisdom traditions offer powerful frameworks for challenging contemporary systems of oppression and exclusion.
🔬 Featured Paper Highlight:
"The Temporalization and Spatialization of Everyday Epistemic Resistance by Marginalized Artists"
By Tathagata Bhowmik, PhD, Masters' Union School of Business & Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University
This insightful study reveals how Baul performers in India—marginalized artists navigating caste- and class-driven precarity—enact profound forms of resistance not through confrontation, but through reimagining time and space itself.
Key Insights:
✨ How communities construct alternative moral economies grounded in communal care, interdependence, and spiritual devotion
✨ Temporal practices: Valuing distribution over accumulation, durational care, privileging communal over market time, preserving artistic sovereignty
✨ Spatial practices: Rejecting exclusionary venues, ritualizing marginal spaces, negotiating institutional boundaries, embodying resistance through dress and presence
✨ Demonstrates how marginalized communities generate alternative ethical and social realities through spiritual practices and collective memory
Why This Matters:
This research challenges us to recognize non-discursive, culturally embedded resistance that destabilizes dominant notions of social class, caste identity, and capitalist value. It extends our understanding of how wisdom traditions inform everyday practices that quietly, yet powerfully, transform social realities.
🎯 Why attend? Engage with scholarship that bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary resistance, revealing how spirituality becomes infrastructure for social transformation and epistemic justice.
See you in Philadelphia! 🔔
#AOM2026 #MSRDivision #WisdomTraditions #EpistemicResistance #SocialJustice #SpiritualPractice #MarginalizedVoices #IndigenousKnowledge #CulturalResistance #HumanFlourishing
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Dr. Ekaterina Ivanova
Associate Professor
HSE University GSB
MSR Communications
and Outreach Lead
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