"Halal Dating as Liminal Practice: Muslim Partner Selection in Disputed Contexts" Presentation | 17th European Sociological Society Association Conference Joint session: "From Liminalities: New Reflections on the ‘In-Between’" (Convenors: Louis Volont, Kornelia Hahn, and Arthur Oliveira Bueno) August 2026 • Warsaw, Poland
"Performing Religious Expertise: Authority and Adaptation in Islamic‑Branded LLMs" Presentation | 19th Biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University Panel: "Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication" (Convenors: Jan Lorenz and Juan Francisco Cuyás) August 2026 • Poznań, Poland
"Entanglements of Intimacy and Visibility: Muslim Dating App Ads in Berlin’s Public Sphere" Presentation | 9th Annual European Academy of Religion Conference, Luiss University Panel: "Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe" (Convenors: Farah Hasan, Susanna Trotta, and Valeria Fabretti) July 2026 • Rome, Italy
I was delighted to present my paper on how Islamic-branded LLMs perform authority and contribute to the negotiation of Islamic sexual ethics, within the highly engaging panel Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence, organised by Jan Lorenz and Juan Cuya at the European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference held from 21 to 24 July 2026 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
"Epistemic Entanglements: On Situating Emerging Religious Knowledge" Presentation | 8th Annual European Academy of Religion Conference, University of Vienna Panel: "Situated Knowledge in Social Transformation" (Convenors: Farah Hasan, Kieryn Wurts, and Whitney Muller) July 2025 • Vienna, Austria
"Antagonisms and Alliances – How Religion Constitutes an Essential Component of Postmigrant Societies" Presentation | 7th Annual European Academy of Religion Conference, University of Vienna Panel: "Religion and the Postmigrant Society" (Convenor: Ulrich Schmiedel) May 2024 • Palermo, Italy
"Muslim Women as Instagram Influencers: Reconstituting Islamic Practice and Belief" Presentation | 16th European Sociological Society Association Conference (Convenors: Nurit Stadler and Oren Golan) July 2020 • Online
"Judges with a Muslim Migration Background in the German Judiciary" Presentation | Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies, Maastricht University February 2020 • Maastricht, Netherlands
"Instagram as a Virtual Field for Muslim Identity Construction" Presentation | Area Studies, Digital Media Practices and New Research Approaches Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin January 2020 • Berlin, Germany
"Muslimische Instagram-Influencerinnen" (Muslim Instagram Influencers) Presentation | Islam in Practice – Actors, Practices and Everyday Life Workshop, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (BIT), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin November 2019 • Berlin, Germany
"Religious Identity – The Headscarf Revival among Teens in Germany" Presentation | Post-Graduate Humanities Conference, University of Pretoria October 2017 • Pretoria, South Africa