„Turkish Spiritism and Islam: Between Coalescence and Repulsion“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Spiritism in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Januar 2016
„Dünya Kardeşlik Birliği in Turkey“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Spiritism in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Januar 2016
„New Religiosities and Post-Capitalism: On the Role of ‚Spirituality‘ in Alternative Politics in Turkey“, Panel and Round Table „Of Shamans, Spirits and the Apocalypse: New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities in Turkey and the Near East“, University of Oxford, Dezember 2015
„Reenchanted Lycia? A Concourse of Recreation, Spiritual Search, and Politics on the Mediterranean Coast“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Geography, Locality, and Location“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Oktober 2015
„The Seven Sleepers in Anatolia“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Geography, Locality, and Location“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Oktober 2015
„Spiritual Practices, the Body, and the Self in Contemporary Turkey: Toward an ‚Easternized‘ or New Age Islam“, Panel „De-Essentializing Islam: Considerations Emerging from Research on New Religiosities in Turkey“, Gemeinsame internationale Jahres- und Fachtagung der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient und der Sektion Islamwissenschaft der DMG, September 2015
„Buddhist Religion in Turkey? From the Publications of Yol Yayınları to Contemporary Buddhist Practice“, Panel „Buddha in Modern Turkey“, XXI IAHR World Congress, August 2015
„The Bavari panth and the Dalit Question: Conflicting Constructions of History and Identity“, Panel „Dalits and Religion“, XXI IAHR World Congress, August 2015
„Yoga in the Interreligious Encounter between Islam and Hindu Religions“, Mini-Vortragsreihe „Yoga in Islamic Environments“, Universität Göttingen, Juni 2015
„Conspiracies to Save Nation and Religion: The Roles of ‚Insincerity‘ and ‚Brain Washing‘ in Discourses about New Religions and New Religiosities“, Workshop „Conspiracy Theories in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Juni 2015
„The Book of Knowledge (Bilgi Kitabı) of the World Brotherhood Union (Dünya Kardeşlik Birliği)“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Holy Books and Spiritual Fiction: Between Hermeneutics and Literary Imagination“, Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC, EHESS), Paris, Mai 2015
„The Entanglement of East and West in Gurdjieff’s Reception in Turkey“, Panel „Western Esotericism in Turkey“, fünfte Konferenz der European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism zum Thema „Western Esotericism and the East“, Universität Riga, April 2015
„Die Rolle heiliger und heilender Wasser in der Türkei: Über die Verschränkung von Medizin, Religion und Metaphysik in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart“, 3. Netzwerktreffen „Natur und Kult in Anatolien“, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Istanbul, März 2015
„The Prophet Muhammad in Turkish Spirit(ual)ist and New Age Literature“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Islamic New Age & Islamic Gurus?“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Februar 2015
„Şifre and Sır in Islamic Literature: Between Ebced, Hurufism, and New Popular Codeologies and Numerologies“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Islamic New Age & Islamic Gurus?“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Februar 2015
„International, Decentral Media Wars: Contrasting the Falun Gong Case with the Narratives of Struggle between Gülen and the Turkish Government“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „New Religiosities and Media“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Oktober 2014
„Transmitting New Age Topics in Turkish Literature: On the Role of Translations and Original Turkish Publications“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „New Religiosities and Media“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Oktober 2014
„New Religiosities in Turkey: Reenchantment in a Secularized Muslim Country?“, Center for Contemporary Religion, Universität Aarhus, September 2014
„Neue Religiositäten in der Türkei: Wiederverzauberung in einem säkularisierten muslimischen Land?“, Centre for Interreligious Studies, Universität Bamberg, Juli 2014
„Ölüm ve Ötesi: Discourses on Near-Death Experiences in Turkey“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „New Religiosities and Science: On the Creative Appropriation of Scientific Ideas and Discourses“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Juni 2014
„Bedri Ruhselman: From Spiritism to Neo-Spirit(ual)ism“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „New Religiosities and Science: On the Creative Appropriation of Scientific Ideas and Discourses“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Juni 2014
„Constructing Space and Religious Relationships: Memory, Ritual, and Change in the Satnāmī panth in Uttar Pradesh (17th to 21st centuries)“, Oberseminar für Orientalistik, Universität Bamberg, Juni 2014
„Translating the Kamasutra in Times of Change: On the Nature and Purpose of Ahmed Sahib’s Ottoman Turkish Kavāʿid-i aşk ve sevdā“, Konferenz „The Dervish and the Yogi: Indian Spiritualities Through Turkish Eyes“, University of Oxford, Mai 2014
„Tantra, the Diyanet and the Question of CAM Regulation in Turkey“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Attitudes of Turkish State Actors and Islamic Authorities to New Religiosities“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Februar 2014
„The Construction of the Term ‚Religion‘ by the Diyanet and Turkish Faculties of Theology“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Attitudes of Turkish State Actors and Islamic Authorities to New Religiosities“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Februar 2014
„New Religions as Cults: Reactions from the United States and Turkey“, NEORELIGITUR-Workshop „Attitudes of Turkish State Actors and Islamic Authorities to New Religiosities“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Februar 2014
„On Walter Ruben and Turkish Indology“, Konferenz „Education in the Context of Ideology and Power: Turkish University Reform and the Jewish Academics in Perspective“, Goethe-Institut Istanbul and Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) Universität, Oktober 2013
„Tantra: When Is It Therapy, When Religion?“, Workshop „New Religious Movements in Turkey III“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Oktober 2013
„The Academic Study of Indian Religions in Republican Turkey: Between Classical Indology and Theological Religious Studies“, Deutscher Orientalistentag, Universität Münster, September 2013
„Tantra in Turkey: Between ‚Free Sex(uality),‘ Historical Distancing, and Esoteric Practice“, Konferenz der European Association of the Study of Religions (EASR), Liverpool University, September 2013
„The Study of Indian Religions in Turkey: History and Perspectives“, Workshop „New Religious Movements in Turkey II“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, April 2013
„A Late Ottoman Translation of the Kamasutra“, Workshop „New Religious Movements in Turkey I“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, November 2012
„Islam in South Asia: Its Spread and Cultural Impact“, Wöchentliches Kolloquium, Istanbul Kemerburgaz Universität, Juli 2011
„Completely Different Matters: On the Materiality and the Symbolism of the Tomb in a Sant Lineage“, International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Technische Universität Istanbul, Mai 2011
„Between Sufism, Yoga, and Modern Hinduism: The Poetry of the Bāvarī panth“, Philosophy and Religion Colloquium, Banaras Hindu University, 2011
„The Quest for Self-Transformation and the Social Self in Indic Sufi Poetry: Courtly Hindavī Romances and Popular Braj Poems“, 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Universität Bonn, Juli 2010
„(Nirgun) bhakti and Ritual Practice: Thoughts on the History of the Bāvarī panth“, 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Universität Bonn, Juli 2010
„Selected translations of Josh Malīhābādī“, Biannual Hindi-Urdu Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, September 2008
„Selected translations of Khwājah Mīr Dard“, Biannual Hindi-Urdu Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Oktober 2007
„Sufistische Einflüsse auf Kabirs Denken? Eine semiotische Betrachtung seiner Soteriologie“, 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Universität Halle, September 2004
