Archives of the Impossible conference | Plenary Lecture: Karin Meyers

Karin Meyers, the academic director of the Mangalam Research Center (MRC) in Berkeley, California, lectured on "Buddhism and the Impossible" during an international conference at Rice University titled "Archives of the Impossible: Transnationalism, Transdisciplinarity, Transcendence." The May 11-13, 2023 conference featured speakers and panelists who set out to demystify the paranormal through their research and experiences regarding metaphysics, UFOs and much more.
Meyers has taught Buddhist studies at several colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, including Kathmandu University and Rangjung Yeshe Institute’s Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal, where she also directed the master’s program in Buddhist Studies.
Her scholarly work focuses on bringing Buddhist perspectives to bear on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary inquiry into fundamental metaphysical, epistemological and ethical questions. She has published a number of articles on topics in Buddhist philosophy and is currently editing a volume of essays on Buddhism and the imagination stemming from a 2022 NEH Summer Institute she co-directed and hosted at MRC.
Karin has practiced Buddhist meditation in Tibetan and Theravāda traditions and took a year in 2019 to serve as Retreat Support Fellow at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Before attending graduate school, she worked at the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and has recently returned to these socially engaged roots, promoting Buddhist engagement with the accelerating climate and ecological crisis.
She received her PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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