Talks

Upcoming

Panel: Orientalisms ‘Other’: Islamic Studies, European Thought, and South Asia

Co-organizer with Brannon Ingram (Northwestern University) and Francesca Chubb-Confer (Oberlin)

European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Heidelberg University, Oct. 1-4, 2025

Submit your abstract here.

Past Presentations

Pathways to Pakistan: Race, Religion, and Orientalism

South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, 2024

Conference (organizer): Gender and Religious Agency in the Muslim World

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 2024

Imagining Pakistan: Orientalism and Racialized Religious Identities

Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies, 2024

Islamic Modernism in Colonial India: The Ahmadiyya and the Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam

Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, 2023

Religious Education in South Asian Islamic Modernism

Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Free University Berlin, Germany, 2022

European Orientalism, South Asian Modernism and the Academic Study of Islam in Colonial North India

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin/Madison, USA (Virtual)

Panel: Trajectories and Tensions in South Asian Islamic Modernism (Organizer), 2021

Dynamic, Non-Western and Spiritual: Images of Japan Among Muslims of Colonial South Asia

Virtual Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, USA

Panel: Pan-Asian Modernity Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Education, Social Ethics, and Universal Religion (Co-organizer, with Jessica Zu, USC), 2021

Orientalism and Muslim Identity in Colonial Punjab

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 2021

Workshop “Din and Dunya in the Muslim World” (Co-organizer, with Abdoulaye Sounaye)

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany, 2020

Act in the Living Present: Muslim Voluntary Associations in Colonial Punjab and the Quest for a 'Modern' Islam

Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Washington, DC, USA, 2018

Bent over Arabic Manuscripts: Islamic Studies as an Academic Discipline in Colonial North India

DAVO-Congress, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Panel: The Emergence of Islamic Studies in the Muslim World (Co-organizer, with Sarah Holz), 2018

“Who is a Modern Muslim? Voluntary Associations and the Construction of Islamic Identities in Colonial North India”

Reed College, Portland, OR, USA, 2018