“Do the Stars in Heaven Speak? Rumi, a Poet for the 21st Century.” Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2021.
“Rumi, a Poet for the 21st Century.” Austin Community College, November, 2019.
“‘Long after we are gone, the World Will Still Be’: Khayyam’s Notion of the World Writ Large.” Keynote address, Khayyam Day, University of Oklahoma, April, 2018.
Six lectures addressing the broad topic of “Unsilencing the Sacred Self: Human-Divine Cocreation in Medieval Persian Poetry” each through the works of a number of pre-modern Persian poets. Solicited by the American Academy of Religion, presented at Notre Dame, North Western, Elmhurst, and University of Chicago, and the AAR annual meeting October 24- November 20.
Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self, Library of Congress, 2016.
My Poor Heart Sometimes Runs, Sometimes Whirls: Meet Sa’di the Comedian. Princeton, 2016
UD Mercy, Celebrate Spirit Event on Wednesday, September 10, 2014.
UD Mercy, Keynote Speaker.“Persian Mystical Literature: The Marriage of Poetry & Music,” Library of Congress, May 7, 2014
“Fatemeh Keshavarz – Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran,” Marlboro College, 2009.
