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