Speakers

Keynote

Larry Ward
"Transforming our Cognition of Race Karma"

Speakers

Natalie Avalos
"Indigeneity, Race, and Buddhism: Healing Colonial Relations"
Joy Brennan
"How to Interpret Karma with Early Yogācāra Thought"
Divya Cherian
“Raza, Casta, and Jati: Karma and Histories of Early Modern Difference Today”
Ralph Craig III
“Over A New Land: Karma and Race-Making in SGI-USA”
Mangesh Dahiwale
"Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Theory of Karma"
Gaylon Ferguson
"Karma Questions: Middle Way? Two Truths? Collective Liberation?"
Naropa University, emeritus
Melanie Harris
"Engaging A Womanist Buddhist Insight of Fierce Compassion for Ecowomanist Thought"
Uday Jain
"The Lion's Roar: Dr. Ambedkar's Critique of Karma as Humanist Pedagogy"
Sheetal Kamble
"Dalit Women and Ambedkar's Thought of Karma"
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Amod Lele
“Karma Without Rebirth: A Buddhist Theological Eundaimonism”
Upayadhi S. Luraschi
University of Chicago
Kamilah Majied
"Understanding Karma as Mission: Karma as Fuel for the Creative Alchemy of Liberation"
California State University, Monterey Bay
Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John
“Ambedkar: Uplifting Hindu Women in Defiance of Karma”
Adeana McNicholl
"An Affective Theory of Karma?: Caste and the (Re)Signification of Disgust"
Anupama Rao
"Is Caste:Race as Hierarchy:Inequality? Ethics and Allyship Across Historical Difference"
Kirby Sokolow
"Beyond Buddhist Exceptionalism: Collective Care and No-Self Making in U.S. Prisons"
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
"Understanding Race and Caste Together: Practical and Ethical
Considerations"
Equality Labs
Jasmine Syedullah
"Shape Chaos, Shape God: Lorde, Butler, and the power of the Black Lesbian erotic at the heart of a Radical Dharma"
Rima Vesely-Flad
"The Doctrine of Karma and Black Liberation: Buddhist Ethics in Baldwin’s America"
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
“We Don’t Usually Blame the Victim: Black Buddhist Teachers on Karma and Caste”
Jessica Zu
"Karmic Worldmaking: How to Theorize the Social Relationally and Interdependently"