Videotaped Talks
- An Exploration of Muslim Humor (Boston, November 16, 2009)
- What Nights? Localizing the World's Most Famous Story Collection between Expert Knowledge and Lay Perception (American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, October 14, 2010) and (Graduate Course "Placing Texts: Folk Narrative and Spatial Construction", Tartu, Estonia, June 4, 2012)
- Persian Art in the 19th Century: The Art of Illustration in Lithographed Books of the Qajar Period (Doris Duke's Shangri-La, Center for Islamic Arts and CUlture, Honolulu, September 29, 2012)
- Qesse va qesse-shenâsi dar Irân va jahân (BBC, Oktober 19, 2012)
- From Mecca to Mashhad: A Lithographed Shiite Pilgrimage Scroll from Iran (Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., April 10, 2013)
- Coffeehouses, Public Baths, and Mosques: German Architecture in the Oriental Style (Symposium Encounters with Islamic Art: Deception, Revival, and Response. University of Michigan Museum of Art, February 1, 2014)
- The Printing Press as an Agent of Tradition in Iran (Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., July 23, 2014)
- Mirza 'Ali-Qoli Kho'i: The Master Illustrator of Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period (The Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, October 12, 2015)
- Antoine Galland's Journeyman Years: Galland's Early Travel Diaries (1672-73) in the Light of Comparative Folk Narrative Research (Antoine Galland and the Thousand and One Nights Tradition: Perceptions and Perspectives, Berlin, October 30, 2015)
- Big Data of the Past: 19th-Century Folk Narrative Researchers and Their Relevance for the Discipline's Future Joint Meeting of the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Miami, October 22, 2016
- The Visual Culture of Iranian Twelver Shiism in the Qajar Period S. T. Lee Lecture, Princeton, December 7. 2017
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