Engaging Global Islamism: The International Network of the Jamaat-e-Islami, paper presentation as part of the panel “South Asian Islam and the world: in search of a new paradigm”, organized by me, European Conference on South Asian Studies, 01 – 05 October 2025, Heidelberg, Germany

No common ground. Israeli and Palestinian Narrations of the Conflict, invited lecture as part of the lecture series “The Middle East in Transition”, Goethe University Frankfurt, 15 July 2025, Frankfurt, Germany

The “Discovery” of modern Islam in East Germany after 1979, invited lecture as part of the conference “Marginalized in East Germany?! Research on Muslim Lives in the Context of Struggles over East-West-German Epistemic Superiority”, University of Leipzig, 13 – 14 June 2025, Leipzig, Germany

Academic Freedom for Some? October 7, Israeli Universities and the Limits of Scholarly Discourse, invited lecture, Center for Antisemitism Research, Humboldt University Berlin, 11 June 2025, Berlin, Germany

Owning the Future Islamic Revolution: The Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, and the challenge of Iran, paper presentation as part of the panel “Religious authority and the state in Muslim South Asia”, co-organized with Mashal Saif (Clemson University), Annual Conference on South Asia, 29 October-1 November 2024, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

The Mystical Appeal of a Revolution: Classified Documents, Islamic Third Worldism and Iran in 1983, paper presentation at the 31st Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI), Granada, Spain, 9-14 September 2024

 The "Discovery" of Modern Islam in East Germany after 1979, invited lecture, University of Erfurt, Germany, 30 April 2024

The Mystical Appeal of a Revolution: Classified Documents, Islamic Third Worldism and Iran in 1983, invited lecture as part of the Monday Lectures in Religious, Social and Cultural Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany, 29 April 2024

Revolutionary Inference: Iran and Global Islam, invited talk as part of the conference “Islam, the Modern Nation State, and Transnational Movements. Research, Challenges, Responses," Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, 4-6 October 2023 

Underestimated Mullahs: Shi'i Islam and the Long Shadow of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/79, public lecture as part of the lecture series "Revolution, Reaction, Religion: Perspectives of 1848", Goethe University Frankfurt, 28 June 2023 

Publics under Threat, Panel discussion hosted by the German Young Academy, co-organized with Valeska Huber (University of Vienna) featuring Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Georgetown University), Amro Ali (University of Hassan II Casablanca) and Ghazal Abdollahi (Darmstadt), Humboldt University Berlin, 23 June 2023  

How to Import a Revolution: Shi'is, Sunni Islamists, and their Detractors in Pakistan, invited talk as part of the workshop "The Iranian Revolution at 45: Short- and Long-Term Global Effects on Islamist Politics," organized by Raphaël Lefèvre (University of Bristol) and Toby Matthiesen (University of Stanford and University Ca' Foscari), 03 March 2023, LSE, London 

Sidelining Sayyids: Shi'i Islam and Religious Authority in Pakistan, invited talk as part of the Online Symposium "Shi'i Traditionalism in Modern South Asia," organized by Ali Altaf Mian (University of Florida), 26 January 2023 

A/Symmetries, Europe and Global Islam, invited talk as part of the lecture series "A/Symmetries - Interdisciplinary Perspectives," organized by Bettina M. Bock (University of Cologne) and Thorsten Merl (University of Marburg), 17 January 2023, held on Zoom 

Back to School. The Surprising Vitality of the madhhab in South Asia, paper presentation as part of the Workshop “On Leadership and Authority in the 20th Century Muslim World”, co-organized with Layli Uddin (London), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 7-8 December 2022 

The Discovery of Islam in the East Germany after 1979, talk as part of the panel “Islamic and Middle East Studies during the Cold War,” co-organized with Dennis Half (Trier), 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, Free University of Berlin, 16 September 2022 

Utopian Horizons: Iran and the Many Possibilities of the Early 1980s, paper presentation as part of the panel “Negotiating Future/s in the MENA Region and Beyond,”34th Deutscher Orientalistentag, Free University of Berlin, 13 September 2022 

Searching for Friends Across the Global South: Secret Documents, Iran, and the Export of the Revolution in 1983, invited paper as part of the workshop “1979 and the Fate of Third-Worldism in the Middle East,” University of Copenhagen (via Zoom), February 20-22 2022