Talks

The Prophet in Islamic Art: History, Imagery, & Debate (2025)

“Les images de la Vierge Marie en Iran et dans l’Inde moghole” (2025)

Islamic Wooden Lintels (2024)

Curatorial Webinar: Puerperant Amulets at the Crossroads of Culture (2024)

The Tree as an ‘Animal-esque Plant’ (Nabat Hayawani): Arboreal Thoughtscapes in Muslim Majority Lands (2023)

IJIA Dialogues #2 “On Pedagogy” (2022)

Hima in the House: Avian Architecture across the Islamic World (2022)

The ‘Identity’ of Islamic Art in Pedagogical Settings: From the University Classroom to Integrated Technologies (2022)

In Defense and Devotion: Affective Practices in Early Modern Islamic Manuscript Paintings (2022)

Riding the Winds of Change: Khamseen and Islamic Art History Online (2022)

Medieval Art Matters: Muhammad in Islamic Art (2022)

Like Hearts of Birds: Ottoman Microarchitecture and the Avian Turn (2021)

Islam Through Art (2021)

“‘Wellspring of the Arts’: Iranzamin and Art, Craft, & Technology in the Qajar Period,” keynote lecture, exhibition Iranzamin, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, July 30, 2021

The Experience of Prophetic Beauty (2021)

A Place for People to Pray and Birds to Sing (2020)

Archaeological Photography at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (2020)

The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography (2020)

King of Kings of Africa: Racializing Qaddafi in the Visual Output of the 2011 Libyan Uprisings (2020)

Engines of Prophecy: Materializing Muhammad in the Modern Islamic World (2020)

The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles (2020)

The Moon: Mirror of Faith, Science, and the Arts (2019)

Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial Debate (2018)

Représentations figuratives du Prophète en Islam (Musée du Louvre) (2018)

L’art du portrait, du manuscrit au décor architectural (Musée du Louvre) (2018)

Images et idoles: un débat de longue date (Musée du Louvre) (2018)

The New Galleries for the Department of Islamic Art in Focus (2012)