Selected Recent Invited Addresses
“Accommodating Women’s Hijab or the Islamist States: How FIFA/IOC Failed Women”, Intersection Speakers Series, Douglass College, Vancouver (14 November 2017).
The Roadmap To Transnational Right To Academic Freedom And Critical Thinking: 20 Year After UNESCO 1997 ” a conference on Academic Freedom In Turbulent Times, Ireland Maynooth University, 6 November 2017.
Academic Freedom And Critical Thinking as a Transnational Right”, Open borders, Open minds: Academia in an Age of Growing Isolationism, The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University: 30 May 2017.
Anthropological Fieldwork And Risk In A Violent World: A Conversation With Homa Hoodfar (The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Ottawa (5 May 2017).
“Love And Intimacy as A Political Space in Islamic Republic of Iran”, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University, New York (13 April 2017).
“Doing Ethnography in a Politically Unpredictable Context”, Symposium on Dangerous Research, University of Alberta; Edmonton (2 April 2017).
“Don’t Use the Word ‘Research’: Doing Ethnography in a Politically Volatile context” (The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Ottawa (5 May 2017).
“Academic Freedom and Critical Thinking as a Transnational Right” Master Mind Master Class speaker series, University of British Columbia, (8 March 2017).
“Going Public: Women in Contemporary Iran”, Iranian Studies, Messy College, University of Toronto (1 March 2017).
“Politics, Sexuality, and the Right to Critical Thinking: My Time in Evin prison”, Winegard Visiting Lectureship in International Development, Guelph University, Ontario (7 February 2017).
“Feminism As A Crime Against The State in The Islamic Republic of Iran: A Personal Story”, A one-day conference: Academic Freedom at Risk: Turkey, the Middle East and Beyond; School of Law, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) (27 January 2017).
“Threats to Academic Freedom” Scholars at Risk Network (Canada)
Ottawa (8 December 2016).