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07–09 November 2026
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
13 October 2026
16.00
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Israel, the 1967 War, and official recognition of the Bahāʾī faith
25 September 2026
09.30 EDT
Professional development session: Beyond the dissertation: Publishing in journals and books
Reforging myth: The After-lives of Kāveh the Blacksmith in Iranian, Kurdish, and Tajik nationalisms
The Evangelical Episcopal Church’s rôle in the official Israeli recognition of the Bahāʾī faith
1st gathering of the Israel Forum for the Study of the Bahāʾī faith
Kāveh the Blacksmith and his banner of revolt as recurring symbols in modern Iran
Society and state in Iran, 1925–present, an international conference of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies
11 May 2026
08.30
Ḥatser Leitner, ha-Meyyasdim 52, Zikhron Yaʿaqov, Israel
Geopolitics and its effects on Jews and the State of Israel
Mornings on Tomorrow discussion group
מעבר לדת „רשמית” ודת „עממית”: מבט ארוך־טווח על מתווכים דתיים באיראן [Beyond ‘official’ and ‘popular’ religion: A Longue durée look at religious intermediaries in Iran]
Baer Forum panel discussion on Elisheva Machlis’s book, The People’s Islam in Iran: The Ethno-religious dimension (Routledge, 2026)
12.00 EDT
United States (online)
A History of foreign interventions in Iran
ASMEA webinar series, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
22 March 2026
19.00
Israel (online)
Israel Cornell Club, in collaboration with the Penn Club of Israel, Dartmouth Alumni Israel Barnard Alumnæ of Israel, Yale Club Israel, IE, and NYU Alumni Club Israel
19.00
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beʾer-Shevaʿ, Israel (online)
BGU Live Global Update: Operation Roaring Lion—Iran and Israel: What’s next?
08 March 2026
18.30
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beʾer-Shevaʿ, Israel (online)
Department of Middle East Studies
20 February 2026
09.10
Derekh Aharon 4, Zikhron Yaʿaqov, Israel
לגלות את עולם האסלאם [Discovering the world of Islam]
Parents’ campus lectures, ha-Ḥiṭṭah State School
23 January 2026
10.00
Israel (online)
פילי מלחמה סאסאניים והזיכרון ההיסטורי האסלאמי [Sāsānian war elephants and the Islamic historical memory]
Forum for the Study of the Mediæval and Early Modern Islamic World
13 January 2026
18.00
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beʾer-Shevaʿ, Israel (online)
מדברים על איראן [Discussing Iran]
‘The Middle East stage [בימת המזרח התיכון ]’ panel discussion
08 December 2025
16.00
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beʾer-Shevaʿ, Israel (online)
העולם הפרסיתי: מן הבלקאנים עד הודו [The Persianate world: From the Balkans to India]
‘The Global Middle East [המזרח התיכון הגלובלי ]’ guest lecture
03 November 2025
13.00
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
09 September 2025
10.30
Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
12 August 2025
14.30
Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
27 May 2025
16.30
Periodicals Room, Bloomfield Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Hebrew University Chair in Bahaʾi Studies Book Launch
28 February 2025
08.10
Derekh Aharon 4, Zikhron Yaʿaqov, Israel
לגלות את עולם האסלאם [Discovering the world of Islam]
Parents’ campus lectures, ha-Ḥiṭṭah State School
09 January 2025
13.00
Rashi School, 8000 Great Meadow Rd, Dedham, Massachusetts (online)
Rashi Israel Kehillah Community talk
12.30
Seminar Room 25312, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Seminar Series
03 November 2024
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
‘The Arab-Israelite conquest’: Biblical models and the historiography of the Arab-Islamic expansion [Withdrawn due to war ]
01 November 2024
09.00 (EST)
online
Persianate studies
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies roundtable discussion
13 August 2024
09.30
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
18.30
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (online)
Hebrew University Chair in Bahaʾi Studies Public Lecture
15 May 2024
16.30
Rome, Italy (online)
Shoghi Effendi and the development of Bahāʾī-Israeli relations
Il Condominio Italian Bahāʾī forum
08 May 2024
14.15
Open University, Raʿanannah, Israel
Category imperative: The Establishment of the Bahāʾī Department in the Israeli Ministry for Religious Affairs
47th annual conference of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel
19.00
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (online)
Hebrew University Chair in Bahaʾi Studies Book Launch
09 February 2024
08.10
Derekh Aharon 4, Zikhron Yaʿaqov, Israel
המזרח התיכון: יהדות, נצרות, ואסלאם [The Middle East: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam]
Parents’ campus lectures, ha-Ḥiṭṭah State School
01 February 2024
18.00
300 W Timberdell Rd, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Israel-Hamas war debate
Oklahoma International Law Society panel, College of Law
05 January 2024
13.00
Rashi School, 8000 Great Meadow Rd, Dedham, Massachusetts (online)
Rashi Israel Kehillah Community talk
14 December 2023
12.00
Atrium, Abraham Shapira Academic Center, 415 South St, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Welcome and introduction: A Festschrift for Prof. Avigdor Levy
Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies
08 December 2023
13.00
Rashi School, 8000 Great Meadow Rd, Dedham, Massachusetts
Rashi Israel Kehillah Community talk
05 November 2023
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
24 October 2023
12.00
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (online)
‘Black Sabbath’ and the Israel-Gaza War
OLLI special lecture
16 June 2023
08.10
Derekh Aharon 4, Zikhron Yaʿaqov, Israel
דת ועולם האסלאם [The Religion and world of Islam]
Parents’ campus lectures, ha-Ḥiṭṭah State School
11 June 2023
17.00
Oxford, England (online)
The State of Israel and the succession to Shoghi Effendi
Shaykhi, Babi, and Bahaʾi Studies Oxford Seminar
01 June 2023
11.00
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Yerevan, Armenia
27 April 2023
11.15
Rabin Complex 5002, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
A Bahāʾī leadership proclamation from 28 November 1957: The Israel State Archives as an insurance policy
46th annual conference of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel
06 November 2022
08.30
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
29 September 2022
15.00
Burton Hall 210, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Iran from the Constitutional Revolution to the protests today
‘Modern Middle East’ (HIST 3953) guest lecture
09 June 2022
11.15
Multi-Purpose Room 1, Shalem College, Jerusalem, Israel
יחסי הגומלין שבין חקר הדת הבהאאית וחקר ארץ־ישראל: מחקר וסימביוזה [The Relations between Bahāʾī studies and Israel studies: Scholarship and symbiosis]
45th annual conference of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel
15 November 2021
08.30
Washington Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
‘The People have multiplied’, the narrative has multiplied: A Matn -cum -isnād analysis of the Bajīlah’s ‘fourth’
14th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
28 October 2021
Palais des congrès, Montréal, Québec
Hand of God or turn of fate? Christian and Zoroastrian responses to the Arab-Islamic conquests [Withdrawn due to COVID-19 ]
55th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
01 October 2020
Washington, DC
Hand of God or turn of fate? Christian and Zoroastrian responses to the Arab-Islamic conquests [Withdrawn due to COVID-19 ]
54th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
27 August 2020
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
13 March 2020
University of Chicago Center in Delhi, New Delhi, India
22 January 2020
18.00
Biblical Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Jewish experience under Islam
Via Sabra tour: ‘Following the footsteps of Jews from Arab lands’
02 November 2019
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
03 June 2019
14.40
2nd floor, Wiener-Gross Building, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
08 February 2019
09.20
Floridastraße 26, Hainerberg Army Base, Wiesbaden, Germany
Myths and facts of the modern Middle East
Wiesbaden High School
03 November 2018
12.30
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
09 October 2018
17.30
Národní 3, Room 108, Prague, Czech Republic
06 September 2018
12.00
Farzaneh Hall 145, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Center for Middle East Studies brown-bag lecture series
16 August 2018
15.45
Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine, California
20 July 2018
11.30
Seville, Spain
11 April 2018
11.30
Lakenheath Education Centre, Building 948, Room 205, Lakenheath Air Force Base, Lakenheath, England
University of Oklahoma in the United Kingdom
17 March 2018
16.00
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
21 November 2017
10.30
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
Call-and-response battles in Syria and Iraq: The Literary construction of Islamic collective memory
51st annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
15 November 2017
15.00
Farzaneh Hall 145, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
07 November 2017
17.30
Harrington Education Center 108, 540 Ross St, College Station, Texas
International Studies Lecture
07 November 2017
12.00
3100 Clerbourne St, Room 105/106, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
Institute for International and Immigration Law
06 November 2017
10.00
Lobo A & B, Room 3037/3039, Student Union Building, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
International Studies Institute
03 November 2017
18.15
Norman Public Library West, 300 Norman Center Court, Norman, Oklahoma
20 October 2017
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
01 April 2017
18.00
1516 SW 38th Street, Moore, Oklahoma
What is the Middle East?
Moore Baháʾí Cultural Event
28 October 2016
10.30
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
04 August 2016
08.45
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
21 June 2016
09.00
Ben-Zvi Institute, Ibn Gabirol 14, Jerusalem, Israel
04 May 2016
11.00
Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution Society’s Holocaust Remembrance Week
03 May 2016
20.00
Second Wind Coffee House, 564 Buchanan Ave, Norman, Oklahoma
Second Wind Ministries and Episcopal Student Association
14 April 2016
18.30
494 Elm Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma
Hillel at the University of Oklahoma
01 April 2016
12.00
West Wind Unitarian Universalist Church, 1309 West Boyd St, Norman, Oklahoma
Cleveland County Democrats Corn Bread and Beans lecture series
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar workshop
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar and Islamic Studies Program lecture series
19.00
Charles Schusterman Jewish Community Center, Sylvan Auditorium, 2021 E 71st Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa Jewish United Fund Campaign kickoff lecture and reception, Jewish Federation of Tulsa
29 February 2016
18.30
494 Elm Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma
Hillel at the University of Oklahoma
12.00
Hester Hall 145, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Center for Middle East Studies brown-bag lecture series
22 November 2015
08.30
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado
From Israelites to Muslims: Biblical paradigms in the Futūḥ literature
49th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
09 November 2015
19.00
Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, 710 W Wilshire Blvd, Suite 103, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Recent trends and tensions in Israeli politics and society
30 October 2015
08.30
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
19.15
494 Elm Ave, Norman, Oklahoma
Hillel at the University of Oklahoma
07 October 2015
20.00
800 Elm Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma
The Rise of Islam and the Arab-Islamic conquests in their historical perspective
Episcopal Student Association, St Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Student Center
09 September 2015
15.15 (Panel 16)
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
04 May 2015
White Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Department of Near Eastern Studies colloquium series
23 March 2015
19.00
710 W Wilshire Blvd, Suite 103, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
16 March 2015
18.00
Dinwiddie Hall 103G, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Radical Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict
‘Arab-Israeli conflict’ guest lecture
14 March 2015
09.00
Crowne Plaza French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
10 March 2015
12.00
Hester Hall 145, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Department of International & Area Studies
08 March 2015
18.30
Kraettli Faculty-in-Residence House, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Israeli culture and cuisine
Faculty-in-Residence country culture night
11 February 2015
12.00
Ellison Hall 132, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies brown-bag lecture series
14 December 2014
09.30
Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
23 November 2014
14.00
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC
Hero and Trickster in early Islamic historiography: The Case of the Qādisiyyah narratives
48th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
01 November 2014
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
31 October 2014
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
08 August 2014
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montréal, Québec
18 April 2014
12.00
Ellison Hall 132, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Center for the Study of Nationalism lecture series
03 April 2014
18.30
Norman Public Library, 225 North Webster Street, Norman, Oklahoma
Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions series
15 March 2014
Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, Phoenix, Arizona
08 March 2014
14.30
Wagner Hall 135, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
28 February 2014
18.30
Norman Public Library, A/B Room, 225 North Webster Street, Norman, Oklahoma
05 January 2014
17.00
Faculty of the Humanities Building 5318, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
1st meeting of the Iranian Studies Research Group, Institute for the Study of Asia and Africa and the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
26 December 2013
18.15
Gilman Hall 133, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
22 November 2013
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
6th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
17 November 2013
321 E Campbell Dr, Edmond, Oklahoma
18 October 2013
18.30
526 Iowa St, Norman, Oklahoma
06 October 2013
12.00
Hillel Building, 494 Elm Ave, Norman, Oklahoma
Between Egypt, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories: Israel in today’s Middle East
Norman Jewish Community Organization
03 September 2013
08.00 (Panel 4)
Oriental Institute of Sarajevo and Bosniac Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia
01 February 2013
20.30
1516 SW 38th Street, Moore, Oklahoma
History of the Baháʾí community in the Holy Land, 1917 to the present
Moore Baháʾí Cultural Event
18 January 2013
12.00
Hester Hall, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
07 January 2013
18.30
Khan Museum of Haderah, ha-Gibborim 74, Haderah, Israel
08 December 2012
18.30
526 Iowa St, Norman, Oklahoma
The Baháʾí faith in the Holy Land and Baháʾí-Israeli relations
Norman Baháʾí Center
12 November 2012
19.00
710 W Wilshire St, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Art of Zionism: Jewish national identity in the modern world
12 October 2012
14.15 (Panel 2)
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC
5th annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
03 October 2012
12.00
Gittinger Hall 109, 760 Van Vleet Oval, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
04 June 2008
12.00
333 Nahanton St, Newton Centre, Massachusetts
History and development of the Bahāʾī faith
Senior Adult Department Lecture Series, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center
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