Invited Public Lectures
“Hunting Baraka: Majelis Habib Syech and the Changing Landscape of Indonesian Islam” Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 2019. Language: English
“Pemburu Barokah: Majelis Habib Syech dan Perubahan Lanskap Islam Indonesia,” Universitas Wahid Hasyim, Semarang Indonesia. Language: Indonesian
“Introduction to Ethnographic Theory,” Universitas Nadhlatul Ulama, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 2019. Language: Indonesian
“Pemburu Barokah: Majelis Habib Syech dan Perubahan Lanskap Islam Indonesia,” Universitas Islam Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 2019. Indonesian
“Introduction to Ethnographic Theory: Technological Advances,” Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, Indonesia, June 2019. Language: Indonesian
“Reimagining Islamic Authority in Asia: Transnational Baraka,” School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Faculty Forum, March, 2019.
Selected Conference Presentations
“(Re)enchanting Religion,” North American Association for the Study of Religion,” Nov. 22-24, 2019
“Pilgrimage Sites as Mobile Cities: Indonesian Piety on the Move,” American Academy of Religion, Nov. 23-26, 2019.
“(Re)Enchanting Religion: Indonesian uses of Universal Definitions,” Western American Academy of Religion, March 10, 2019.
Presider. “Pop Culture as Argument: Contesting Religion, Gender, and Romance in Contemporary Indonesia,” American Academy of Religion, November 17, 2018.
“Reimagining Islamic Authority in Asia: Tracing Transnational Baraka,” “Asia on the Move,” Nordic Institute for Asia Studies, November 6, 2018.
“Disavowing Technology and the Formation of Digital Communities,” “Asia on the Move Ph.D. Course.” Nordic Institute for Asia Studies, November 9, 2018.
“Towards a Global Ummah and Indonesia’s Contentious Nationalism,” American Historical Association; Religious Nationalism in Flux section; January 6, 2018.
“Forming the Moderate Muslim and the Deception of Indonesian Islamic Exceptionalism,” American Anthropological Association in the Ethnography, Misrepresentations of Islam, and Advocacy Section; December 1, 2017.
“Flipping the Ethnographic: Illuminating the Importance of Belief,” American Academy of Religion in the Anthropology of Religion Unit; November 18, 2017.
“Secularism’s Ambiguity: Listening to the Streets of Jakarta,” Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; April 7, 2017.
“Smelling Arab: The Possession at Solo, Indonesia,” American Academy of Religion in the Critical Theory and Discourse section; November 19-22, 2016.
“The Circulation of Islamic Ethics in Indonesia,” Asian Studies Research Center at Arizona State University; October 27, 2015.
“Popular De-Islamization of Yogyakarta’s Kraton,” Western American Academy of Religion Conference, Santa Clara; March 20-22, 2015.
Invited Respondent to The Act of Killing, Western Association for Asian Studies Conference, Arizona State University; October 8-10, 2014.
“Tasauf’s Transformation through Political Practice,” National American Academy of Religion; Chicago, Illinois; November 17-20, 2013.
“The Indonesian Muslims’ Experience in America,” Launch of the Institute for the Study of Immigrant Religions, University of California Riverside; June 1st 2012.
“The Revitalization of Islam through Dzikir in Indonesia: From Naqshbundi to Hamka,” Western American Academy of Religion Conference; Santa Clara, March 24-26, 2012.
