Conference, Lecture and Paper Presentations
2022 Göttingen Georg August University |
"The Emergence of Visual Arts in the Context of the Current Protests in Iran" Talk held on October 19, 2022. |
2021 Rome |
“Vāq Motif from Manuscripts to Carpets: The Formation of the New Myth about Death and the Afterlife in Safavid Grave Rugs” Ernst Herzfeld Society, 16th Colloquium. |
2019 Berlin |
“Men of Farang in Illustrated Martyrdom Stories from Safavids to the Qajar Period: An Invitation to Islam or a Quest to Legitimize Shiʿi Beliefs?” Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies. Freie Universität Berlin. |
2019 London SOAS |
“Rethinking Injuid Painting School: Inju Style in Context.” Research Seminar in Islamic Art, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology; SOAS University. Talk held on April 25, 2019. |
2019 Tehran Malek Museum |
“Saʿdi’s Poems in the Frames of ʿAli-Qoli Khuʾi, the Prolific Illustrator of the Early Persian Printed Books.” Talk held on May 5, 2019. |
2018 Tehran Art University |
“Iconography of a jawānmard in the Illustrated Manuscript of Samak-e ʿayyār.”Talk held on January 8, 2018.
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2018 Strasburg |
“Qajarian lithography: Creating images not for privileged few” Ernst Herzfeld Society,14th Colloquium. |
2017 Cambridge |
“Prophecy and Propagating Shiʿi Islam among the Folks: A Survey of Illustrated Lithographed Books of Qajar Period.” Third Biennial Symposia Iranica. |
2017 Vienna |
“Reconstruction of Shiʿi Islam among the folks: A survey of illustrated lithographed books of Qajar Period.” Ernst Herzfeld Society,13th Colloquium. |
2016 Vienna |
“Irregular’ Illustrations: Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi’s Visual Representation of Saʿdi’s Poems.” Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference. |
2015 Cambridge |
“Is There a Visual Code for Recognizing a Follower of Chivalry?” Second Biennial Symposia Iranica. |
2014 Hamburg |
“Narrative Images and the Art of Narration in Representing the Chain of Events in Parde-khāni Performance.” 10th Annual Symposium of the Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft. |
2013 Göttingen |
“Visual Representation of an ʿayyār: A Model or a Rival for the Prince?” International Conference: Mirror for the Princes. |
2012 Istanbul |
“Concepts and Images in Samak-e ʿayyār Romance.” 9th biennial of Iranian Studies, Istanbul. |
2011 Krakow |
“Painters’ Interpretations of Ferdausi’s Twelve Rukh Scenes with a Concentration on Two Inju Manuscripts.” 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies. |
2010 Marburg |
“The St. Petersburg Shāhnāme, an Admiration for Monarchy or Manliness?” 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag. |
2010 Heidelberg |
“The Symbolic Language of Victory and Defeat in the Manuscript of Samak-e ʿayyār.” In the workshop The Way I See it: Transcultural Perspectives on Image, Gaze and Perception, Asia and Europe in a Global Context. |
2008 Tehran-Zabol |
“The Mystical Language of Victory and Defeat in St. Petersburg Copy of Shāhnāme.” International Conference of illustrated Shahname manuscripts. |
2004 Tehran |
“Fractals Geometry and Its Concept in Islamic Art.” International day of Islamic Art, Faculty of Arts and Crafts, Art University. Tehran. |