“Nurturing Aesthetic Sensibilities: Poetry and Selfhood in Islamic Philosophy of Education.” Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, December 09, 2025.
“Ibn ‘Arabi, Selfhood, and the Modern Meaning Crisis.” Ibn ‘Arabi Society Kashmir, November 02, 2025.
“Turath and Human Civilization: Cultural Activity toward Environmental Sustainability and Public Ethics.” Institute for the Study and Development of Human Resources, Nahdlatul Ulama, Malang City, Indonesia, October 21, 2025.
“Islam and the Anthropocosmic Self.” The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK, October 08, 2025.
“Psychology, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing in the 21st Century.” Plenary Speech. 16th International Congress on Psychopharmacology & Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology/Psychotherapy, Antalya, Turkey, April 25, 2025.
“The Ultimate Vision of Life: Ibn ‘Arabi and the Anthropocosmic Self.” Ibn ‘Arabi Society, MIAS Online Seminar Series, April 12, 2025.
“Finding the Way: Religion, Ecology, and the Future of the Applied Humanities.” Panel Speaker. Stanford University, Stanford, March 01-04, 2025.
“Suhrawardī, Mullā Ṣadrā, and Whether AI Could be Conscious.” The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 20, 2025.
“Engineering the Planet? Climate Change, Techno-Optimism, and the Future of Humanity.” Xavier University, Cincinnati, February 19, 2025.
“Unity in Diversity: Pluralism in Islamic Philosophical Thought.” Hikmat International Institute, January 15, 2025 (online lecture).
“Mullā Ṣadrā’s Ontology of Consciousness.” Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, November 24, 2024 (online lecture).

“The Self in Islam: A Global Philosophy Approach.” Princeton University, Princeton, November 04, 2024.
“What It Means to be Human in a Post-Enlightenment World: A View from Islamic Philosophy.” The Institute for Philosophical Studies – Europe (IPSE) in partnership with Bursa Uludağ University, ISAM, Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2024.
“An Ecological Vision of Life through the Prophetic Model.” Keynote Speech: Annual Milad al-Nabi Lecture. The Aga Khan Council, Toronto, Canada, October 19, 2024.
“Rumi, Ethical Education, and the Sufi Theories of Personality.” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October 13, 2024.
“Does AI Enhance or Impede Spirituality?” Panel: Tough Talk, South Asia Center, the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, June 05, 2024 [Zoom].
“Opening Pandora’s Box: AI, ChatGPT, and the Quest for Superintelligence.” University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, April 16, 2024.
“The Burnout Society: Healing Fragmentation through Islamic Spirituality.” Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan, November 25, 2023.
“Immortality through AI?: Transhumanism, Human Nature, and the Quest for Spiritual Machines.” The Comparison Project Lecture Series. Department of Philosophy & Religion, Drake University, Des Moines, November 15, 2023.
“The Decline of Philosophy and the Rise of Shallow Thinking: The Challenges of the Islamic World.” Tradisi: The Centre for Advanced Irfan Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 06, 2023 [Online Lecture].
“Islamic Psychology and Theories of Personality.” Humanity, Sufi Thought and Healing Lecture Series. Institute of Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Türkiye, October 03, 2023.
“Finding Our Place on a Changing Planet: An Introduction to the Theories and Methods of the Environmental Humanities.” Department of Environmental Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, September 18, 2023.
“The Idea of ‘Thinking’ in a Techno-Scientific World: A Cross-cultural Perspective.” The Geophilosophies Project. The University of Michigan, Michigan, Sept. 8, 2023.
“A Response to the Upaniṣadic Self.” Hinduism for Muslim Audiences by Ankur Barua. University of Cambridge and Project Noon, Zoom Lecture, August 12, 2023.
“Opening Pandora’s Box: AI, ChatGPT, and the Mystery of Consciousness.” Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, Florida, April 03, 2023.

“Religious Diversity: A Philosophical Approach.” Khan Endowment Lecture. Department of Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, March 15, 2023.
“All Minds, All the Time: The Universality of Minds in the Philosophy of Shāh Walī Allāh.” Karl H. Potter Memorial Lecture Series in Philosophy. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, March 01, 2023.
“Charles Taylor and the Invention of Modern Inwardness: A Non-Western Response.” College of Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, January 26, 2023.
“What is Nature? Orphic, Promethean, and Native American Views.” Department of Environmental Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, November 30, 2022.
“Modes of Selfhood in Islam: A Panel on Muhammad Faruque’s Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing.” Book Panel Respondent, the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Religion, Denver, November 20, 2022.
“Interventions and Intersections.” Panel: Constructive Muslim Thought and Engaged Scholarship, the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Religion, Denver, November 20, 2022.
“Islamic Moral Theology and the Future.” George Mason University, Virginia, October 21, 2022.
Inaugural Bangabandhu Memorial Lecture: “Decolonizing the Muslim Mind: Islam and the Path to Intellectual Emancipation.” Bangabandhu Research Centre for Islam and Interreligious Dialogue, Chittagong, May 11, 2022.
“Islam, Psychology, and Selfhood.” A Conference on Islamic Psychology, Islamic Dawah Center, Texas, Feb. 27, 2022.
“The Self and Human Ontology.” The George Washington University and Alkaram Institute, Washington DC, Dec. 11, 2021.
“Islamic Philosophy: An Introduction.” The George Washington University and Alkaram Institute, Washington DC, Nov. 13, 2021.
“Decolonizing the Muslim Mind: Islam, Spirituality, and Human Flourishing.” Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism. University of Exeter, Exeter, Nov. 12, 2021.
“Qur’anic Studies in the Euro-American Academy.” Panel Discussant. 50th Annual Conference on “Approaches to Qur’anic Studies in the Western Academy.” The North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, University of Oregon, Nov. 12, 2021.
“Shared ideas and Worlds: Mystical Philosophy in the Middle Ages as a Case Study for Coexistence.” Panelist. Festival of Faiths, Cincinnati. Aug. 26, 2021.

“Sufism: Islam’s Mystical Tradition.” Department of Philosophy, UC Clermont College, Batavia, April 08, 2021.
“Who am I? The Labyrinth of Selfhood in the Islamic Tradition.” The College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, February 24, 2021.
“Transcending the Ordinary Self: Mullā Ṣadrā on the Ethics of Human Flourishing.” Islamic Philosophy Conversation Group Workshop. Bard College, December 18, 2020.
“Islam and the Care of the Earth: A Response to Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’.” Interreligious Perspectives on Laudato Si’: A Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Care of the Earth. Georgetown University, Georgetown, October 30, 2020.
“What is Life in the Islamic Tradition?” The Concept of Life in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. University Erlangen–Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany, September 25, 2020.
“Selfhood and Being Human in Islamic Mystical Literature.” Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, August 13, 2020.
“Care for Our Common Home: Jews, Christians, and Muslims Confront Climate Change.” Annual Spring McGinley Lecture by Patrick J. Ryan. Panel Respondent. Fordham University, New York, March 31, 2020.
“The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity: Rethinking Iqbal, Selfhood, and the Islamic Tradition.” Religious Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA, Jan. 24, 2020.
“Transcending the Ordinary Self: Self-Cultivation and Human Flourishing in Islamic Philosophy.” The American Philosophical Association. San Francisco, April 9, 2020.
“Sufism, Science, and Philosophy in Islamicate History: Challenging the Myth of Islamic Decline in the Early Modern Persianate World.” Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Dec. 12, 2019.
“Attending to Oneself: Muhammad Iqbal and Indian Philosophy.” Mind, World and Attention: Themes from Indian and Buddhist Philosophical Theory. New York University, New York, April 26, 2019.
“Gollum and I: The Lord of the Rings, Islamic Mystical Literature, and the Practice of Being an Authentic Self.” Center for the Middle East Studies, Fordham University, New York, Mar. 11, 2019.
“Conversations in Islamic Ethics: A Discussion with Cyrus Ali Zargar about His New Book ‘The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism.’” The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics, Louisville, Jan. 5, 2019.

“The Problem of Selfhood in Islamic Mystical Thought.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, November 01, 2017.
“Finding One’s True Self: Self-Cultivation and Human Flourishing in Islamic and Neoplatonic Thought.” Comparative Studies Doctoral Colloquium 2017-2018. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, October 23, 2017.
“A Phenomenological Overview of Islamic Art.” Lecture Delivered in a Workshop Organized for K-12 Teachers. Stanford Live, Stanford University, Palo Alto, US. Sept. 26, 2016.
“Sufism versus Shariah? Shāh Walī Allāh on God, Existence, and the Nature of Reality.” Junior Scholars Lunch Papers. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies. University of California, Berkeley. Feb. 16, 2016.
“Islamic Identity in the West.” Panel Speaker. Delta Phi Epsilon, University of California, Berkeley Chapter. University of California, Berkeley, April 27, 2015.