Presentations (selection)

• 2026. A chronology of Iranian women's protests in the Islamic Republic. Part of ‘Imagining Iran after the Mullah’s', De Balie, Amsterdam.. 
• 2025. Macht en Recht in Spinoza's Filosofie. Spinozadag, Paradiso Amsterdam.
• 2025. Spiritualiteit en leiderschap in de kunsten. KNAW.
• 2025. Spinoza: Adventures of Immanence in Iran. XXIII International Association for the History of Religions World Congress. Jagiellonian University, Krakow. 
• 2025. Iran: A Secularizing, Diverse, and Dissident Society. Research seminar, University of Lausanne.
• 2025. Keynote (online, based on work with Ammar Maleki): Can Online Non-Probability Surveys Work in an Authoritarian Context? Measuring Non-Sensitive and Sensitive Topics in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Annual conference of the Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa.
• 2025. With Ammar Maleki: WAPOR Webinar: Anonymity Sampling for Measuring Hidden Opinions in Authoritarian Contexts.

• 2025. Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism. Social Anthropology seminar series, University of Edinburgh.
• 2024. Position paper P. Tamimi Arab t.b.v. rondetafelgesprek Iran. Vaste Commissie van Buitenlandse Zaken, De Tweede Kamer. 
• 2024. Can Online Non-Probability Surveys Work in an Islamic Republic? Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Pittsburgh.
• 2024. The Transition in South Africa from Apartheid to Political Secularism [in Persian]. Fourth annual "Iran: Transitional Justice" conference, hosted by the Norway-based rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR) in Oslo.
• 2024. Pictures That Divide: The Prophet Muhammad in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. College Art Association annual conference, Chicago.
• 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. Public conversation with Jonathan Israel on his book Spinoza: Life and Legacy. Spui25, Amsterdam.
• 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. 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").
• 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. 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.