June 2026 | Keynote Speaker: 'Sufism's Contribution to Mysticism: Moving Beyond the View of Mysticism as an Individualised, Anti-Textual and Non-Regulated Divine Experience', at the 'Mysticism(s) Beyond the West' Conference, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford University.
June 2026 | 'Sacred Ground, Disputed Rights: Jewish Burial Sites and the Negotiation of Communal Space in Eighteenth Century Algeria'; The Jews of Ottoman Algeria, Towards a New History, conference organised by the SHSS-HSG.
November 2025 | 'Pasado y presente de los andalusíes en Túnez'; Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid.
November 2023 | 'Historical Ethnography, a Critical Enquiry on the Interplay between Anthropology and History'; Ethnography Talks, University of St Gallen, St Gallen.
August 2022 | 'The performative Nature of Emotion in Sufism: Studying Islamic Mystical Feeling as Emotional Practices'; International Conference 'Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements in Contemporary Muslim Piety', The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm.
June 2022 | 'The making and remaking of an Andalusian identity, ethnic mobilisations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring'; SHSS-HSG Research Retreat, Ittingen-Kartausen, Switzerland.
May 2022 | 'The Andalusians of Tunisia, Cultural pride and Privilege longing; Cultural Revivalism at the Crossroads of Identity and Class, Past and Present'; The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Central European University, CEU, Vienna.
December 2021 | 'Mothering him: gender, love, feminine suffering and the maternal in French Sufi autobiographical writings'; International Symposium, 'Sufism and Gender in Contemporary Societies', Università Ca'Foscari Venezia & Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
June 2021 | 'Old and new Andalusians: elites and minorities in Tunisia today'; International workshop 'The Concept of Minority, a Critical Appraisal', University of St Gallen.
September 2019 | 'Sensing the body to dilute the self: the corporeal acquisition of a Sufi identity'; International conference 'Sufism and the body', University of Utrecht.
April 2019 | 'Dinámicas de 'otredad' en la etnogénesis andalusí en Túnez: búsquedas identitarias motivadas por el otro'; International conference 'Túnez y el Mediterráneo en la Edad Moderna: Identidades, conflictos y representaciones, Homenaje a Slimane Mostafa Zbiss y Mikel de Epalza', National Archives, Tunis, Tunisia.
December 2018 | 'The translatable and un-translatable in transnational religion; Moroccan Sufism beyond Arabic and the performative acts of 'explaining' Islam'; International conference 'European Languages as Muslim Lingua Francas', University of Amsterdam.
April 2016 | 'Between two or three worlds; Reversion to Islam, marocanité and Western Sufism in the ṭarīqa Būdshīshiyya'; Sufism East and West, Mystical Islam and Cross-cultural Exchange between the West and the Muslim World, International Workshop in Memory of Professor Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Universität Erfurt.
October 2015 | 'El sufismo marroquí en Europa a través de sus prácticas – una mirada antropológica a la ṭarīqa Būdshīshiyya'; Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid.
October 2015 | 'El Sufismo Contemporáneo y las disputas por el "corazón" del Islam'; Seminario de Historia y Religión, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
October 2014 | 'Debunking Some Myths on the Study of Contemporary Islam, the case of the Moroccan Sufi Order Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya'; Seminar für Nahoststudien, Universität Basel.
October 2013 | 'My Civilisation, your Barbarianism; Religious Identity and the Re-appropriation of al-Andalus in the Moroccan-Spanish Borderland.' at the 'Religion at the Borderland; Conceptualizing "Borders" through the Study of Religion' Anthropology Symposium, University of St Gallen.
January 2013 | 'The "Swiss Umma" Project; the struggles and dilemmas of a nascent Muslim Umbrella Organisation' at the 'Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance' Conference, Bishopgate Institute London, University of Bristol and AHRC/ESRC project on Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance, United Kingdom.
September 2011 | 'Dying the same way? A comparative perspective on Jewish and Muslim understandings of death', at the 'Intertwined Worlds: The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition' Symposium, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
September 2010 | 'Transplanting Moroccan Sufism or Enacting New Eclecticisms? Transnational Identities and Regional Religiosities in the Qādiriyya Today', at the 'Religions and Migrations in Southern Europe' Conference, University of Porto.
May 2010 | 'The way you live is the way you die: Framing religious narratives in Muslim and Jewish mortuary religiosities in Britain today', at the 'Death Day' Conference, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Winchester.
February 2010 | 'End of life, death and Bereavement among Muslims in the UK', College of Healthcare Chaplains, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
November 2009 | 'Transculturating Sulami. Readaptation of the Central Asian Medieval Sufi Heritage for Western European Audiences Today', at the 'International Conference on Central Asian Islamic Identites', International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan, Republic of Kazakhstan.
October 2008 | 'Mediating between Sulami's Kitab al-Futuwah and Modern Sufi Readers. Agency and Transmission of Medieval Sufism in the Tariqa Budshishiyya Today', at The 'Cambridge Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies: Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies,' Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.
June 2008 | 'Islamic Journeys Of The Soul Expressed In European Female Bodies. Religious Conversion as Bodily Enactments', at the 'Perspectives on Intercorporeality and Intersubjectivity Conference', University College Dublin.
May 2008 | 'The European Budshishiyya, a Plural Map of Islamic Religiosities Within a Global Sufi Movement Today' at the Postgraduate Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, University of London.
April 2008 | 'Spanish Budshishiyya: Local Embodiment of a Global Sufi Order' at the 2008 International Conference: 'Twenty Years and More: Research into Minority Religions, New Religious Movements and 'the New Spirituality', Cesnur, Center for Studies on New Religions, London School of Economics.