Istanbul University: ‘Cities of Stars: The Historical Relations of Optics and Astronomy’ 

Symposium for the History of Science in Islam, June 13-15, June 15, 2019.

Pasadena, Caltech: ‘Zodiacs of Paris: Verses, Places, Faces’: Looking Back as We Move Forward: A Conference in Honor of Jed Z. Buchwald, April 25-27, 2019, April 27, 2019.

Istanbul Museum of History of Science and Technology, ‘Around the World with Early 

Science: A travelling Exhibit on ‘Paths and Chances’, Tuesday September 25, 2018.

Berlin Humboldt University: ‘New Light on Transmission Studies: Optics in Arabic and Persian (ca. 

1020s-1520s)’: Theories of Vision and Light from Antiquity to the Renaissance: May 17-18, 2018.

University of London (SOAS): Idea of Iran Series: The Turko-Timurid Intermezzo, November 18-19, 

2017: ‘From Maragha to Samarqand and Beyond: Revisiting A Quartet of ‘Persian’ Scientific Traditions 

Revisited (ca. 1300-1500s)’

Harvard University, Quincy House, April 10, 2017

 ‘The Spread of Science and the Critical Case of Persian Lands: Houghton Exhibit of the Latinized Optics of Alhazen in Persian-Iranian Context’

Middle East Studies Association (MESA): Boston: Nov 17-20, 2016.

‘Checkered History’ Recolored: The Changing Fortunes and Misfortunes of Optical Texts in Islamic and 

European Lands

Massachusetts Institute of Technology = MIT: April 17, 2015.

History and Science in Iran At the Turn of the Last Millennium: A History Duet and A Science Quartet