Keynote
Speakers
Mangesh Dahiwale
"Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Theory of Karma"
Gaylon Ferguson
"Karma Questions: Middle Way? Two Truths? Collective Liberation?"
Naropa University, emeritus
Jonathan C. Gold
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Melanie Harris
"Engaging A Womanist Buddhist Insight of Fierce Compassion for Ecowomanist Thought"
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Kamilah Majied
"Understanding Karma as Mission: Karma as Fuel for the Creative Alchemy of Liberation"
California State University, Monterey Bay
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Adeana McNicholl
"An Affective Theory of Karma?: Caste and the (Re)Signification of Disgust"
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Anupama Rao
"Is Caste:Race as Hierarchy:Inequality? Ethics and Allyship Across Historical Difference"
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Kirby Sokolow
"Beyond Buddhist Exceptionalism: Collective Care and No-Self Making in U.S. Prisons"
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan
"Understanding Race and Caste Together: Practical and Ethical
Considerations"
Considerations"
Equality Labs
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Jasmine Syedullah
"Shape Chaos, Shape God: Lorde, Butler, and the power of the Black Lesbian erotic at the heart of a Radical Dharma"
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Rima Vesely-Flad
"The Doctrine of Karma and Black Liberation: Buddhist Ethics in Baldwin’s America"
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Pamela Ayo Yetunde
“We Don’t Usually Blame the Victim: Black Buddhist Teachers on Karma and Caste”
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Jessica Zu
"Karmic Worldmaking: How to Theorize the Social Relationally and Interdependently"