Presentations

• 2024. Keynote: Enlightenment Liberalism or Political Liberalism? Orthodoxy as a Political-Philosophical Problem. International conference: Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental and Eastern Orthodox communities in a transnational world. Radboud University, Nijmegen. 
• 2023. 'The Game is Over': Deveiling and Secularity in Contemporary Iran. Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities. Leipzig University.
• 2023. Dronkemanswijsheid. Utrechtse Dag van de Filosofie.
• 2023. Presentation on Iranians' attitudes toward the nationwide protests during an evening with Masih Alinejad. De Balie, Amsterdam.
  
  
  
  
• 2023. What Do Iranians Want? An overview of GAMAAN’s surveys conducted between 2019 and 2023. University of Edinburgh.
• 2023. Pictures That Divide. Introduction to the symposium Islam and Contested Visual Culture. Utrecht University.
  
   
  
  

• 2022. Rising Iran: Speech About Freedom. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
• 2022. Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam. Rumi Day, Utrecht University.
• 2022. Keynote: Secularization and religious transformation in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Survey challenges and sociological implications. International research seminar: Transnational Perspectives on Post-Secular Italy: Arts, Media and Religion. Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.
• 2022. Survey Zoroastrians: Religious Self-Identification in 2020-2022 Online Surveys in Iran. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (part of an international conference I organized titled "Big Data, Social Media, and the Study of Religion").
• 2021. Thinking With Kwame Nimako. Research Center for Material Culture, National Museum of World Cultures.
• 2020. What is Public Reason? The Curious Incident of Habermas Misquoting Rawls. Conference: Religious Tolerance in an Age of Secularism.
• 2020. Thinking With Wendy Shaw - What is "Islamic" art? - with comments by Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Mirjam Shatanawi. Research Center for Material Culture, National Museum of World Cultures.

• 2020. Spinoza on the Sakoku Edicts. Conference: Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies. University of Toronto.
• 2020. UIAC #4 GAMAAN - Ammar Maleki and Pooyan Tamimi Arab in conversation with Mehdi Sajid on religious attitudes in Iran today.
• 2020. Secularisering en het Coronavirus in Iran. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2020. Keynote: Secularization and Religious Diversity in Iran 2020. ESA RN34-Sociology of Religion biennial conference, Groningen.
• 2020. Cracking and Moderating Secularist Assumptions, in conversation with Tariq Modood and Ernst van den Hemel, Utrecht University.
• 2019. Public conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah on his book The Lies That Bind. Brainwash Festival, Amsterdam.
• 2019. Moral Minimalism and Religious Peace. Chonbuk National University/World Religious Peace Committee, Jeonju, South Korea.
• 2019. Can Muslims Drink? Intoxicating the Anthropology of Islam. Royal Netherlands Institute, Rome.

• 2019. Spinoza, Religious Affects, and Aesthetic Formations. The Netherlanders and Israelis Spinoza Seminar, Erasmus University, Rijnsburg.
• 2018. Materiële religie en de vreemdeling in Spinoza’s Politieke Filosofie (Material Religion and the Stranger in Spinoza’s Political Philosophy). Amsterdamse Spinoza Kring, November 25, Paradiso, Amsterdam.
• 2018. What does the story of one building tell us about the future of religion? Urban Religion | De Staat van God 2018. Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
• 2018. To whom do the Sixties Belong? Posters, Free Love and Diversity in the Netherlands Today. Symposium on Popularized Culture, Ritual and the Making of Heritage. VU University Amsterdam.
• 2018. Secularism and Marital Captivity. ALDE Hearing: The Injustice of Marital Captivity. Brussels, European Parliament.
• 2017. Pictures that divide as entry points to the politics of co-existence. Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society.

• 2017. Heritage versus Authority: Islamic figural painting, music, and wine drinking in the National Museum of World Cultures. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
• 2017. Islamic wine drinkers and philosophy. Philosophy Festival Utrecht University.
• 2017. God’s House: Religious Architecture Under Construction. Book presentation with Oskar Verkaaik and Daan Beekers, Spui25, Amsterdam.
• 2017. Secularism, Identity and Neutrality. Studium Generale Lecture, Wageningen University.
• 2017, with Birgit Meyer. Reflection on blasphemy and image practices as entry points to studying the politics of co-existence. Workshop title: “Blasphemies”: Media, History, Affect. Co-organized by the University of Kent, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, the University of Copenhagen, Oxford Brookes University and Utrecht University in Paris.
• 2017. Reflection on the very idea of religious diversity. Conference on the Modalities of Co-existence Across Religious Difference: Critical Terms for the Study of Indigenous Religion, Christianity and Islam in Plural Settings in Africa and Beyond. Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
• 2017. Devotie-afbeeldingen van de profeet Mohammed in het Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad at the National Museum of World Cultures). Utrecht Religie Forum.
• 2016. Wat betekent de Grondwet voor de vrijheid van godsdienst? (What does the Constitution mean to Religious Freedom?). Interculturele Werkgroep Wageningen, on the occasion of Human Rights Day.
• 2016, with Birgit Meyer. Divers geloven in Nederland (Religious Diversity in the Netherlands). Avond van Wetenschap en Maatschappij, The Hague.
• 2016. Socialists, Catholics, Hippies, and Muslims. Museum Night, Fatih Mosque, Amsterdam.
• 2016. The Prophet Muhammad at the National Museum of World Cultures. With Birgit Meyer, on iconoclasm, religion and the power of images. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam.
• 2016. Mosque construction and amplified calls to prayer: constitutional secularism versus nativism. The Social Sciences Council, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2015. A contextual approach to the “strict neutrality vs. accommodation” division. Joint conference of The Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy and the Association for Social and Political Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.
• 2014. From Procession Prohibition to Amplified Azan. NWO Vidi Conference, Utrecht University.
• 2013. The Object of a Mosque’s Attention: The Call to Prayer in a Dutch town. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago.

• 2012. The Aesthetic Formations of the Adhan in the Netherlands. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
• 2012. Islamophobia and Nativism in Rotterdam. International Conference on Living with Difference, University of Leeds.
• 2012. Secularism and Principled Distance in Rotterdam. St. Ignatius University Centre, Antwerp.
• 2012. Citizenship, Religion, and Spatial Tensions in Rotterdam. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City.