Lectures (2019–present)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya Project.” Invited roundtable participant, The Islamic Art Museumscape: The Jameel Gallery 20th Anniversary Conference. V&A, London, 17 July 2026 (in person)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine.” Selected speaker, Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series, 24 March 2026 (Zoom)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya Project: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary and Independent Research Initiative and Online Exhibition.” Invited speaker, Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism, Leiden University, 18 February 2026 (Zoom)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya Project: Reflections on the Production and Reception of an Independent Museological Initiative.” Clark Fellow talk, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 11 November 2025 (in person)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin through the Photographic Archive.“ Invited study day/journée d’étude participant, Patrimoine et Mémoire du monde Iranien autour des archives d’André Godard (1881-1965) et Yedda Godard (1889-1976), Musée du Louvre, Paris, 4 November 2025 (in person)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine.” Invited speaker, Iranian Art Series, University of Toronto, 23 September 2025 (Zoom)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: Curating an online exhibition of an Iranian Shrine.” Invited speaker, Spotlight Session, V&A Academy (V&A Museum), London, 14 July 2025 (Zoom)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: Behind-the-Scenes of An Interdisciplinary Project.” Invited seminar lecturer, UE836 – Anthropologie des croyances et des pratiques votives dans les mondes musulmans : corps, objets, lieux, EHESS, Paris, 12 June 2025 (in person)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: Behind-the-Scenes of An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine.” Invited conference participant, The First International Conference on Digital Humanities and Art History: Opportunities, Strategies, Prospect, Nowruzgan, Tehran, 19 February 2025 (Zoom)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: The Past, Present, and Future of an Iranian Shrine.” Invited lecturer, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25 June 2024 (in person)
- “Behind the Scenes of an Interdisciplinary Online Exhibition: The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin.” Invited seminar lecturer, UE916 – Corps et objets. Culture matérielle et anthropologie de la dévotion des mondes de l’islam (Moyen-Orient et Asie), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 24 May 2024 (in person)
- “The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript.” Invited lecturer, Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 12 April 2023 (in person)
- “The Emamzadeh Yahya: The Afterlife of an Iranian Shrine.” Invited lecturer, Islamic Art in Solitude Lecture Series, Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23 March 2023 (Zoom)
- “Iran Unglazed: Local, National, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework.” Invited lecturer, Center for Near Eastern Studies/Iranian Studies/Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 27 April 2022 (Zoom)
- “The Deccani Trails of a Safavid Qur’an Manuscript.” Workshop talk, Fielding the Deccan: Architecture, Landscape, and Place (co-organizer with Arash Khazeni), Pomona College, 8 April 2022 (in person)
- “Persian Luster Tilework between the Field and Museum.” 15-minute video lecture for Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, 24 March 2022 (recorded, online)
- “Representation, Revival, and Reproduction of Safavid Isfahan in Isfahan and America.” Invited lecturer, Art University of Isfahan, 10 February 2022 (Zoom)
- “Persian Tilework between the Field, Museum, and Photograph.” Getty Scholar talk, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 1 November 2021 (in person)
- Talk on the Emamzadeh Yahya Project to the Sensing Shi’ism Working Group (dir. Karen Ruffle), 30 June 2021 (Zoom)
- “Armenia and Georgia.” Invited lecturer, Armchair Travels Lecture Series, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 22 April 2021 (Zoom)
- “Medieval Persian Tiles between the Field and the Museum.” Invited lecturer, Members Events Lecture Series, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 7 April 2021 (Zoom)
- “Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation.” Invited lecturer, Iranian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 13 November 2020 (Zoom)
- “Building Biographies: The Fates and Fortunes of Iran’s Monumental Mihrabs.” Invited lecturer, Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 28 October 2019
- “National Geographic’s ‘Old and New in Persia’ (1939): A History of Travel and Tourism in Iran.” Invited lecturer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 29 September 2019
- “Connected Histories: Iran and the Deccan, 1400-1700.” Mejlis Institute, Yerevan, 25 July 2019
