Talks

9th February, 2024

Imagining Pakistan: Orientalism and Racialized Religious Identities

Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies

(Invalidenstr. 118, Room 217)

Past Presentations

2023

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

Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

2022

Religious Education in South Asian Islamic Modernism

Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Free University Berlin, Germany

Panel: Din, Dunya, Akhira - Muslim Life Concepts from a Transregional Perspective

2021

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)

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)

Orientalism and Muslim Identity in Colonial Punjab

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

2020

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

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany

2018

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

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)

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

Reed College, Portland, OR, USA