Academic Engagements

    • Excellence is Blind: Diversity and Axiological Neutrality in European Academia – Workshop: Decolonising Social Sciences: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogical Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (2024).

    • Scientific Expertise in Population and Family Policy in Iran – Lecture Series, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, United Kingdom (2022).

    • Policy Expertise and Culture – The Case of “Civil Sexuality” in Iran – Sociology Lecture Series, University of Vienna, Austria (2022).

    • Re-thinking Political Sociology of Emotions: Autonomy and Liberal Democracy in Pandemic Times – European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Virtual (2020).

    • The Contested Body: Representations of Women’s Bodies in the Iranian Public Sphere – 12th European Sociological Association Conference, Czech Republic (2015).

    • Opening Peer Review to Independent Research – Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria (May 2024).

    • Decolonizing Social Sciences: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogical Practice – Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria (April 2024).

  • Co-Chair

    • What is “Openness” in Open Science? The Case of Publicly Funded Research and Its Implicit Expectations – Science and Technology Studies Conference, Austria (2023).

    • Open Panel – European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), Slovenia (2022).

    Coordinator

    • Study Group: Postcolonial Theory – Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (2015–2021).

    Member

    • Centre for the Cultural Sociology of Migration – Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (2020–2022).

    • Gender Match – Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (2015–2019).