Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-Rumi
Presented "The Ecospiritual Ethics of Samiha Ayverdi" at the 2010 Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion.
Panel Theme: Islam and Ecology: A Reassessment Ten Years After the Earth Charter
Study of Islam Section and Contemporary Islam Group
October 31, 2010 - Atlanta
Presented "Spiritual World of Niyazi Misri" at Prayer of the Servant: Misri Niyazi International Symposium.
October 9 - 10, 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey
October 15 - 17, 2010 - City Convention Hall - Malatya, Turkey
Presented "Turkey: History, Religion, and Culture"
April 2, 2009 - Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Presented "A Concerned Sufi's Perspective on Environment: Water in the Writings of Sâmiha Ayverdi" at the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey.
March 20, 2009 - Session 6.5.3 at Eyüp, Thematic Bloc, Golden Horn (Haliç) Congress and Exhibition Center, Sütlüce, Istanbul
Presented "The Study of Islam in American Academia" as the keynote speech at the Theta Alpha Kappa induction ceremony.
April 8, 2008 - Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
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