Amod Lele (Northeastern University), “Karma Without Rebirth: A Buddhist Theological Eundaimonism”
Joy Brennan (Kenyon College), “How to Interpret Karma with Early Yogācāra Thought”
Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife), “Karmic Worldmaking: How to Theorize the Social Relationally and Interdependently”
Adeana McNicholl (Vanderbilt University), “An Affective Theory of Karma?: Caste and the (Re)Signification of Disgust”

Responding: Jonathan Gold (Princeton University)

Uday Jain (University of Chicago) (in absentia), “The Lion’s Roar: Dr. Ambedkar’s Critique of Karma as Humanist Pedagogy”
Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, “Ambedkar: Uplifting Women in Defiance of Karma”
Sheetal Kamble (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) (in absentia), “Dalit Women and Ambedkar’s Thought of Karma”
Mangesh Dahiwale (in absentia), “Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Theory of Karma”

Responding: Santoshkumar Raut (Harvard Divinity School)

Kirby Sokolow (University of Pennsylvania), "Beyond Buddhist Exceptionalism: Collective Care and No-Self Making in U.S. Prisons"
Rima Vesely-Flad (Princeton CCSR Affiliate), “The Doctrine of Karma and Black Liberation: Buddhist Ethics in Baldwin’s America”
Kamilah Majied (California State University, Monterey Bay), “Understanding Karma as Mission: Karma as Fuel for the Creative Alchemy of Liberation”
Jasmine Syedullah (Vassar College), "Shape Chaos, Shape God: Lorde, Butler, and the Power of the Black Lesbian Erotic at the heart of a Radical Dharma"

Responding: JoAnne Terrell (Chicago Theological Seminary)

“Transforming our Cognition of Race Karma”

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, "We Don’t Usually Blame the Victim: Black Buddhist Teachers on Karma and Caste”
Ralph Craig III (Whitman College), "Over A New Land: Karma and Race-Making in SGI-USA”
Gaylon Ferguson (Naropa University), “Karma Questions: Middle Way? Two Truths? Collective Liberation?”
Melanie Harris (Wake Forest University), "Engaging A Womanist Buddhist Insight of Fierce Compassion for Ecowomanist Thought"

Responding: Rima Vesely-Flad (Princeton CCSR Affiliate)

Anupama Rao (Barnard College, Columbia University), "Is Caste:Race as Hierarchy:Inequality? Ethics and Allyship Across Historical Difference"
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, “Understanding Race and Caste Together: Practical and Ethical Considerations”
Natalie Avalos (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Indigeneity, Race, and Buddhism: Healing Colonial Relations”
Divya Cherian (Princeton University) “Raza, Casta, and Jati: Karma and Histories of Early Modern Difference Today”

Respondent: Upayadhi S. Luraschi (University of Chicago)