Conferences
Panel Organization
Reflections on Tafsīr and Islamic Hermeneutics, Middle Eastern Studies Association
(MESA) 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 25, 2008.
Refereed Papers
“Islamic Hermeneutics in Iran: A Rereading of Revelation.” International Society of
Iranian Studies: Rereading Iranian Shi’ism, Santa Monica, CA, May 28, 2010.
“Contemporary Iranian Hermeneutics.” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) 2009
Annual Meeting: Citizenship and Social Thought in Iran, Boston, MA,
November 23, 2009.
“Soroush and the Finality of Revelation.” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) 2008
Annual Meeting: Reflections on Tafsīr and Islamic Hermeneutics, Washington, DC,
November 25, 2008.
“The New Islamic Hermeneutics of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari.” Fourth Annual
Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students (GRACLS) Conference,
Program in Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, October 6, 2007.
“Soroush, Religious Pluralism and the Modern Muslim.” 2007 American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting: (Neo) Orientalisms: Representing the
Middle East, Puebla, Mexico, April 20, 2007.
“Soroush, Religious Pluralism and the Modern Muslim.” Western Commission for the
Study of Religion (WECSOR): Islamic Revival and Reform, University of California,
Berkeley, March 25, 2007.
“Abdolkarim Soroush’s Theory of Religious Pluralism and the Modern Muslim.” Southwest
Political Science Association: Religion and Political Thought, Albuquerque, NM,
March 15, 2007.
“Soroush Responds to Whether Islam is Compatible with Pluralism.” Horizons: Stanford
Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature,
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, November 18, 2006.
“Soroush’s Islamic Religious Pluralism and the Modern Muslim.” Second Annual Graduate
Association of Comparative Literature Students (GRACLS) Conference: High Concept:
Comparative Studies Out in the World, Program in Comparative Literature,
The University of Texas at Austin, October 6, 2006.
“The Iranian Debate on Religious Pluralism.” Sequels Symposium hosted by the Ethnic and
Third World Literatures concentration, Department of English, The University of Texas
at Austin, March 31, 2006.
“Hussein and Revolutionary Framing.” Pacific Northwest Politcial Science Association
Annual Meeting 2001: Political Theory and Religion, Philadelphia, PA,
November 9, 2001.