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