Tunisi, Good Government, and Overcoming Non- Authenticity of Democracy
Comparative and Global Political Thought, presented at the 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Reading Sayyid Qutb in Kemalist Turkey
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berliner Seminar, Berlin, Germany
Quo Vadis, Academia?: Dissent & Solidarity across Europe, the Middle East, the United States
Abbasi Center 2017 Annual Conference: “Understanding Turkey: Vision, Revision, and the Future,” Stanford, CA
Shrinking Space for Dissent: Social Movements and he securitization of the public sphere
The Conference on Turkey and the Middle East Crisis: What’s the Price of Stability?, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
The July 15 Failed Coup and the Demise of ‘Islamic Democracy’ in Turkey
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berliner Seminar, Berlin, Germany
Islamic Democracy or Democracy for Muslims?
“Islam and Democracy Conference,” Middle East Institute at Sakarya University
The New Antinomies of Islamic Movement in the Post-Gezi Turkey: Islamism vs. Muslimism
BRISMES/EURAMES Joint Annual Conference 2015, London School of Economics, London, UK
The Political Ontology of Liberal Islam: A Critique of Contemporary Islamic Democracy Theories
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
APSA 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
“New Youth Movements in Turkey and Egypt: A New ‘Islamism from Below’ or New Social Actors of Democratic Development?” Origins and Effects of (Post-) Arab Spring on the Middle East and North Africa
Istanbul Şehir University & Turkish Foreign Ministry Center for Strategic Studies (SAM)
Fazlur Rahman as a Political Thinker: Transition to the Liberal Mood in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
71st Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
The Current Relevance of Qutbian Political Thought and Political Ontological Analysis
International Academic Conference on the Middle East, Mardin Artuklu University, Mardin, Turkey
Current Democratic Theory and Contemporary Liberal Muslim Thinkers’ Democracy
2012 Annual Convention of Association for Liberal Thinking (LDT), Kapadokya, Turkey
Political Ontological Analysis for Comparative Political Theory: al-Afghani and Ontopolitical Reform
70th MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
(Un)veiled Muslim Identity in the West: A Muslim Male Perspective
AMSS Annual Convention, Fairfax, VA
Comparing Modernizations: Japan and Turkey, Differing Projects, Different Outcomes
Comparative Politics Section of the 2003 Annual Conference of Southwest Political Science Association (SWPSA); San Antonio, TX
Islamism and Nationalism in Turkey: An Uneasy Relationship
Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in Contemporary Turkey section of 8th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), New York, NY
September 11 and Muslim Discourse in the US Media
31st Annual Conference of AMSS, American University, Washington D.C.
Workshop Participant: “Political Pluralism in the Middle East & North Africa: A Next Generation Dialogue”
The Hollings Center for International Dialogue, Tunis
Panel Discussant: “Provincializing Political Theory: Islamic Intellectuals and the Production of Knowledge in Turkey”
MESA 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington DC
Is there a foreseeable end in the radicalization and reproduction of Islamist Ideas and Policies?
6th German-Turkish Roundtable on International Affairs (GTRT) 2015: Interventions of the West in Muslim Countries, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany
Islamism against Muslimism, Justice against Power
International Conference on Islamism in the Post-Arab Spring World, IDE (Istanbul Think-House), Istanbul, Turkey
Open Borders for Individual Liberty: A Cosmopolitan ‘Alien’ Perspective
64th Annual Convention of MPSA, Chicago, IL
New Authoritarianism and Democratic Resistance: Reflections on Turkey
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, CDDRL, Stanford University
Democratic Breakdown and the Challenge of Dissent in Turkey
Pacific University
International Discussion Series: “Tragedy of Democracy: Turkey and the Challenge of Dissent,”
Stanford Bechtel International Center
Islamische Welt, Krieg und Demokratie
Antiimperialistische Koordination (AIK), Duisburg, Germany
The New Antinomies of the Islamic Movement in Post-Gezi Turkey: Islamism vs. Muslimism
Critical Turkish Studies, Lecture Series at the Turkish Studies Institute, Universität, Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Whatever Happened to Turkish Islamists? Islamists and Tribulations of Power
Die Veranstaltung ist Teil der Vorlesungsreihe ``What went wrong in Turkey?``, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany
The Price of Dissent: Turkey's Academic Purges and the Shrinking University Space
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, NY
Université Paris 8, Paris, France
Intellectuals, Peace Activism and the Turkish State
University of Virginia, Department of Politics, Charlottesville, VA
Peace Activism in Tumultuous Times: Islamist Politics and the Kurdish Question in Turkey
University of Central Florida, Department of Political Science, Kurdish Political Studies Program, Orlando, FL
Intellectuals and State: Personal and Scholarly Reflections On Turkish Democracy
The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series at Harvard University, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, MA
Between Liberation Theology and Will to Power: Reflections on Islamist Political Thought
Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
An Islamic Will without ``Will to Power``?
Conference on the Possibilities for Foundational Islamic Political Will, Free Writers Union, Istanbul, Turkey
Sedat Yenigun and His Legacy of Ideas, Action, and Ethics
Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
Some Ethical Principles and their Actualization by Free Vicegerents
“Second Democratic Islam Congress,” Istanbul, Turkey
The Idea of Social Justice in the Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
ILEM Third Summer School, Konya, Turkey
Hamisch Syrian Cultural House, Istanbul, Turkey
Islamism and Nationalism in Turkey
Espaces: State, Civil Society and Religions in Europe, Institut M.-Dominique Chenu, Istanbul, Turkey
Devrimleri Uzaktan Yazmak `{`Writing Revolutions From Abroad: The Ethical Responsibility of Political Writing`}`
Bursa Metropolitan Municipality 15th Literature Festival, Bursa, Turkey
Roboski'nin Gölgesinde Ulus Devlet ve Adalet `{`The Nation-State and Justice in the Shade of Roboski`}`
Istanbul Şehir University, Menar and ISAR Student Associations, Istanbul
Islamist Movement in Turkey
Social Movement Summer Seminars, the Foundation for Sciences and Arts, Istanbul
Contemporary Muslim Political Thought: The Ethical Dimension
Second ILEM Summer School, Istanbul
Fazlur Rahman and His Project on Islamic Modernism
Minval Student Association, Istanbul Şehir University
“Sayyid Qutb,” Modern Islamic Thought: Figures and Schools
Foundation for Sciences and Arts, Istanbul
Intellectual Construction of Modern State and Politics
Panel on the Emergence of Modern Europe, Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul
The Current Relevance of Sayyid Qutb’s Message
Istanbul Think-House (IDE), Istanbul
Jamaladdin al-Afghani after 117 Years: His Struggle and Reform Legacy
Özgür Yazarlar Birliği (Free Writers’ Union), Istanbul, Turkey
The Political Ontology of Islamic Democracy
Center for Scientific Research (İLEM), Istanbul, Turkey
The Political Ontology of Islamic Democracy
Foundation for Sciences and Arts (BISAV), Istanbul, Turkey
Geziden Sonra İslâmcılık `{`Turkish Islamism After Gezi`}`
Conference on Islamism in the Neo-Liberal Era (Turkish), Istanbul Think-House, `{`İDE-İstanbul Düşünce Evi`}`, Istanbul
Intellectual Transformations and Dynamics in the post- 1967 Arab World
Foundation for Arts and Science Summer School 2011, Istanbul
Liberal Islam and the Break with the Theo-Political Constellation of the Qutbian Paradigm
WisdomNet, West Virginia, USA
The Rise and Demise of Civilizational Thinking in Contemporary Muslim Political Thought
72nd Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Onto/Theo-Politics of Liberal Islam: A Critique of Islamic Democracy Theories
scheduled to be presented at the 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting, New Orleans, LA, (canceled due to Hurricane Isaac)
The Political Ontology of the Contemporary Islamic Democratic Theories
APSA 2006 Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA