Presented Lectures & Conference Papers
- Soleiman Haïm and His Contribution to the Modern Persian Lexicography, IAJF, Los Angeles, February 2020
- Cyrus the great, The worshiper of Marduk, California Zoroastrian Cultural Center, October 2019
Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Plurilingualism among the Migrant Families in Greater Los Angeles, UCLA, July 2015
Towards Ambiguous Roots of Haftsīn-Celebration as a Ritual of Persian New Year, Iranian-American Jewish Fed- eration, Los Angeles, March 2015.
Definition and Description of Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Iran in Modern Times; Approaches towards Socio- Linguistics, Language Strategy and Sate Power, UCLA, February 2015
Iranian Jews and other Religious Minorities during the World War II, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, September 2014.
Towards Semantics of the term “Religious Minorities” in Persian context, Kanoon Sokhan, Los Angeles, April 2014.
The Green Grass of the Moslem Neighbourhood, towards Popularity of Islamic Mysticism and Sufism in Europe, Kulturraum Bern, Switzerland, September 2013.
Leave Our Faith in Peace! Voices of the Muslim Migrants in Switzerland, Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Bern, Switzerland, October 2011.
Orient Carpets on the Swiss Walls: Conversion to Islam among the Swiss Population of Young Generation, Bern Centre for Migration and Foreign Cultures, Bern, Switzerland, February 2011.
Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in Iran, Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Switzerland, June 2010.
An Introduction to the Iranian Mysticism and its Judaeo-Christian Impacts, Centre for Iranian Studies, University of Tel-Aviv, Twelfth Annual Conference on Iranian Studies November 2009, Tel-Aviv, November 2009.
Conception of Religiosity among the Persian Jewish Community in Iran, Institute of Catholic Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland, May 2009.
Formation of Parallel Societies in Central Europe, Turkish migrants and other Muslim minorities in Germany, In- stitute for Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland July 2008.
Iranian und Semitic Loanwords in Caucasian Languages: An Approach towards Interdisciplinary Linguistics, Sep- tember 2007, ECIS 6, 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Science, 2007 Vienna.
Jewish education and their educational centres prior to and after the Islamic Revolution. Irano-judaica: International Conference on Jewish-Iranian Cultural Relationship, Asian-African Institute, University of Hamburg, July 2007
The Moorish Spain and Andalusian Jews in the Middle Ages, Synagogue of Jewish Community in Bern, Switzerland June 2006.
The Educational Situation of Religious Minorities in Iran on the Example of Persian Jews and Baha’is, International Symposium on Human Rights, University of Jena, Germany. September 2006.
Jewish Mystics in the Middle Ages and the Jewish-Islamic Cultural Relations in Moorish Spain, VHS: Volks- hochschule Jena, Germany, April 2005.
Georgica et Irano-Semitica, Studies on the Iranian and Semitic loanwords in Georgian, Bern Circle Lecture in Lin- guistics, Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland June 2005.
An Introduction to the Iranian-Islamic mysticism, Kulturzentrum Jena, Germany, June 2004.
Anti-Semitism or anti-Judaism? A study of Islamic and Christian Hostility towards Jews in the Ancient world, Institute for Intercultural Communication, Jena, Germany, September 2003.
Towards Aspects of Religious Practice among Muslim Youths in Germany, Institute of Theology, University of Jena, Germany, October 2002.
Bilingualism and Semilingualism among the Children of Binational Background in Germany, VHS: Volkshochschule Jena, Germany, December 2001.
Georgian and Persian Proverbs in Genetic and Areal Context, a Paremiological Approach. On Occasion of the 13th International Symposium of Iranian and Caucasian Studies, African Asian Institute Tbilisi, Georgia, September 2000.
Function of Wisdom in Oriental Heroic Epics, a Philological Study, Institute for Iranian Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia, November 1999.
Persian-Georgian Literature and Language Contacts from the Historical Viewpoint, Philological Faculty of the Tbi- lisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, December 1998.
The Golden Age of Georgian Literature and the Contribution of the Persian World, Lectures on occasion of the 80th year’s jubilee of Tbilisi State University, Tehran, Iran, October 1998.
The Semantics and Connotations of the Term “Islam” from the Etymological Viewpoint, an Approach towards Histor- ical-Comparative Linguistics, Institute of Philology of Allāmeh Ṭabāṭabāʾī University, Tehran, Iran, February 1997.
The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint Exupéry and the Seven Spiritual Journeys, Faculty of Philology of Shiraz Uni- versity, Iran, November 1996.
Repentance (Tawba) as a Common Concept in Monolithic Religions, Institute of Philosophy of Allāmeh Ṭabāṭabāʾī University, Tehran, December 1996.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Sufi Image, Shiraz University, Institute of Human Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, May 1995.
Backgrounds and Reasons of Battles in Shāhnameh, Shiraz University, Institute of Human Sciences, Iran, September 1995.