Speaking

Invited Talks & Workshops

• Mother Tongue in a Changing World
  Invited speaker. University of Toronto, February 23, 2026.
• Ethnic Minorities and Social Movements
  Workshop session taught. Milliyyet Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2025.
• Workshop Discussant
  Conference of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society, Chapman University, 2024.
• History and Current State of Ethnic Discrimination in Iran
  32nd Economic Forum, Karpacz, Poland, September 7, 2023.
• Social Movements: The Iranian Example
  Gelişim University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023.

Conference Presentations

• Testing the Boundaries: Ritual Intensity and National Belonging in Turkey and Iran
  Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2026.
• Testing the Boundaries: Ritual Intensity and National Belonging in Turkey and Iran
  30th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, 2026.
• The Decline of National Identity in Multiethnic Societies: Religion and Nation in Iran and Belgium
  With Steven Pfaff. Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, George Mason University, 2025.
• The Decline of National Identity in Multiethnic Societies: Religion and Nation in Iran and Belgium
  With Steven Pfaff. International Congress on Contemporary Debates from the Perspective of Sociology and Philosophy, Istanbul Gelişim University, 2025.
• Making and Transcending Boundaries: The Effect of Ritual on Nationalism
  Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 2024.
• The Decline of National Identity in Multiethnic Societies: Religion and Nation in Iran and Belgium
  With Steven Pfaff. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, 2024.
• Crossing Ethnic Boundaries: Factors Influencing Home-Language Shift among Ethnic Minorities in Iran
  Mosaïque Symposium of Language Studies, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 2023.
• Making and Transcending Boundaries: The Effect of Ritual on Nationalism among Dominant and Subordinate Ethnicities in the Near East
  Conference of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society, Chapman University, 2022.
• What Money Can Buy: Assessing the Impact of Unemployment on Subjective Well-Being Across 6 PSID Waves
  With Devin Collins and Selen Guler. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2021.

Recorded Talks