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LAST UPDATE : 21 October 2011 |
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| 10 December 2011 | A Conference for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East: Chances and Challenges in the Wake of the “Arab Spring” | Symposium on European Union, Turkey, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa | Organized by Bosphorus Research Center (BRC) | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 10/12/2011. |
| 25 October 2011 | Speaking on the panel “The Role of Israel and Iran in the Potential Success of the 2012 Conference” | Workshop: “Towards the 2012 Conference on a Nuclear- and WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East” on the sidelines of the “6th SOAS/British Pugwash London Conference on a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone” | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 25–26/10/2011. |
| 7 October 2011 | The United States’ Policy towards Iran under Obama: Why the Lack of “Change” was Not Surprising | Panel: “The International Conflict Surrounding Iran: The United States, the Nuclear Issue and Beyond” [chaired by myself] | 18th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) | Free University of Berlin, 06–08/10/2011. |
| 7 October 2011 | Targeted or Crippling? The Iran Sanctions Regime and its Effects on Broader Economic Development | Panel: “Iran and its Economic Challenges” [organized & chaired by myself] | 18th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) | Free University of Berlin, 06–08/10/2011. |
| 29 June 2011 | Targeted or Crippling? The Iran Sanctions Regime and its Multifaceted Repercussions | Panel: “Issues in Contemporary Iranian Politics” | British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Conference 2011 “The Middle East: Aspirations and Challenges” – in association with the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) and the Asian Federation of Middle East Associations (AFMA) | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 27–29/06/2011. |
| 28 June 2011 | Iranian–Arab Relations and the U.S.–Iran Conflict Since 2003: Impacts and Prospects | Panel: “Beyond the Challenges of the Discourse of ‘New Emerging Regional Power’: Iran and the Arab World” | British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Conference 2011 “The Middle East: Aspirations and Challenges” – in association with the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) & the Asian Federation of Middle East Associations (AFMA) | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 27–29 June 2011. |
| 8 May 2011 | Ambivalent Episodes in Iran’s Post-‘9/11’ Foreign Policy | LMEI Middle East PhD Students Conference “State, Society and Economy in the Modern Middle East” | London Middle East Institute (LMEI), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 7–8/05/2011. |
| 12 March 2011 | Academia and Activism in Germany | 2011 SOAS Research Student Conference “The Relation between Activism and Academia” | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 12/03/2011. |
| 26 Feb. 2011 | The Effects of Iran Sanctions in the Field of Energy | SOAS 2011 Postgraduate Symposium on Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eurasia | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 26/02/2011. |
| 10 Dec. 2010 | Iran | Panel: Das Völkerrecht, der UNO-Sicherheitsrat und die Entwicklungen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten (Afghanistan, der Irak und der Iran) [International Law, the UN Security Council and Developments in the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran] | 3. außenpolitische Konferenz der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung: Die UNO und das Völkerrecht in den internationalen Beziehungen der Gegenwart [3rd Foreign-Policy Conference of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: The UN and International Law in Today’s International Relations] | Berlin, 10 – 11/12/2010. |
| 21 Sep. 2010 | The Iran Sanctions Regimes: Politico-Economic and Conflict-Sensitive Ramifications | Panel: Economies of War and Destruction: Political Conflict and its Economic and Social Repercussions in the MENA Region (Pt. 2) [organized by the DAVO Working Group “Economics of the MENA Region”] | 31st German Oriental Studies Conference & 17th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) | University of Marburg, 20–24/09/2010. |
| 20 Sep. 2010 | The Iran Conflict in the Obama Era: Strategic Considerations | 31st German Oriental Studies Conference & 17th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) – University of Marburg, 20–24/09/2010. |
| 20 July 2010 | & Miriam Shabafrouz The Geo-Economic Dynamics of Iran Sanctions in a Multipolar World | Panel: Iran and Foreign Policies | World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) – Barcelona (Spain), 19–24/07/2010. |
| 9 Oct. 2009 | Iran als »Indispensable Nation« im Westasien der Post-Irak-Invasion [Iran as »Indispensable Nation« in the Western Asia of the Post-Iraq Invasion] | Panel: Der Nahe Osten nach dem Sturz Saddam Husseins [The Middle East After the Fall of Saddam Hussein] | 16th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) | University of Bonn, 8–10/10/2009. |
| 9 Oct. 2009 | Explanatory Models for Understanding Iranian Foreign Policy | Panel: Iran and the World: The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic and the Domestic Factors Influencing it (I) | 16th International Congress of DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation) | University of Bonn, 8–10/10/2009. |
| 5 June 2009 | The »Middle East«: From Past and Present Attributions to a Future Regional Identity? | First Research Students Society Conference: Regional Studies and Critical Perspectives on Regions | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 5–6/06/2009. |
| 7 June 2008 | Die US-»Grand Strategy« von Pakistan bis Iran [U.S. »Grand Strategy« from Pakistan to Iran] | Panel: Die historische Entwicklung der Konflikte in und um Afghanistan | Internationaler Afghanistan-Kongress [International Afghanistan Congress] | Hanover (Germany), 7–8/06/2008. |
| 19 Jan. 2008 | Der »Krieg gegen den Terror«: Geheimdienste und Terrorismus im Nahen und Mittleren Osten [The »War on Terror«: Intelligence Services and Terrorism in the Middle East] | Netzwerk Terrorismusforschung: 2nd Workshop | University of Kassel (Germany), 18−19/01/2008. |
| 14 Sep. 2007 | Iran in the Eye of Storm: Origins, Course, and Implications of a Global Crisis | Plenum 3A: Globalisierung des Kriegs / Krieg um Ressourcen [Globalization of War / War for Resources] | 25th Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association: War | University of Basel (Switzerland), 12−14/09/2007. |
| 30 June 2007 | Über die Notwendigkeit einer partizipativen Demokratie [On the Necessity of a Participatory Democracy] | Panel 4: Wege zur Integration von Migranten, Tagung Migration steuern oder verwalten? Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich | Research groups on migration of the Graduate School of Politics (GraSP) at the Institute for Political Science (IfPol) and DFG (German Research Foundation) research training group »Zivilgesellschaftliche Verständigungsprozesse« [Processes of Dialogue in Civil Society] at the Center for Netherlands Studies | University of Münster (Germany), 29−30/06/2007. |
