Lectures: a selection
| 9 February 2009 | "Martelaren: van mystieke weg tot oorlogspad" in Trippenhuis, KNAW, in Amsterdam. | |
| 9 January 2009 | "Ferdowsi: An Icon of Nationalism in Modern Iran" in The Reception of the Shahnama at Leiden University. | |
| 19 December 2008 | "Verstroyde van daer over de gantsche aerde: Wetenschappelijke uitwisselingen in de 17e eeuwse Nederland" in the framework of a KNAW-activity ‘Huys van Wetenschap' in Trippenhuis in Amsterdam (together with Jan Schmidt). | |
| 12 October 2008 | "Het raadsel van de republiek: de mystieke poëzie van Ayatollah Khomeini" in Science Centre NEMO in Amsterdam. | |
| 15 July 2008 | "Riddle as Political Emblem" in The Rise of Persian Renaissance at Wadham College (Oxford University) Also see Faculty of Oriental Studies and a report | |
| 16 December 2007 | "‘De school van de liefde' en Rumi" at symposium Rumi, Islam en het westen at De Balie in Amsterdam. | |
| 1 November 2007 | "Sublieme aard: natuur in de klassieke Perzische poëzie" at De Jonge Akademie (KNAW), Amsterdam. | |
| 1 April 2007 | "The Erotic Spirit: Mystical vs. Romantic Love (‘eshq-e haqiqi va majazi) in Persian Poetry from Nezami to Hafez" at Hafiz and the School of Love in Classical Persian Poetry, at the University of Exeter (Iran Heritage Foundation). | |
| 6 June 2006 | "Mystieke liefde in de Perzische poëzie" at the cultural centre De Balie in Amsterdam. | |
| 15 January 2006 | "Khayyam, Rumi en Hafez: mystiek in de klassieke Perzische literatuur" at the Openbare Bibliotheek Cinétol (organised by El Hizjra) | |
| 15 November 2005 | "Poëzie en Muziek in Iran" (‘Poetry and Music in Iran') at de Bijloke Concertzaal Gent. | |
| 9 September 2004 | "A Mystical Reading of Nizami's View on Nature in the Haft payker" Nizami Ganjavi: Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of the Khamsa at the Cambridge University. (Due to private circumstances, Dr. Gabrielle Van den Berg read this paper). | |
| 5 June 2004 | "Treatises on love and romances in Safina-ye Tabriz" at Safina-ye Tabriz: International Conference on Persian Manuscripts. | |
| 31 January 2004 | "Punctuation Symbols in a Fourteenth-Century Persian Miscellany" at the conference The Lives and world Views of Pre-Modern Literati: Ottoman Literary Culture and its Sources in a Global Perspective, Leiden University. | |
| 19 September 2003 | "De oorsprong van Zur-khana (Perzische traditionele gymnastiek) en zijn sociale functie in het hedendaags Iran" in Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Institute of the Tropics). | |
| 20 June 2002 | "The Symbolism of Veiling and the Poetics of Unveiling in Early Modern Persian Poetry" at the International conference on Dress and Costume of Nineteenth-century Iran, in Leiden, The Netherlands. | |
| 14 June 2002 | "Hijâb va ash`âr-i kashf-i hijâb dar avvalîn daura-hâ-yi shi`r-i mudirn-i Fârsî" for the Iranian Scientific Association in the Netherlands in Delft. | |
| 17 May 2002 | "Het verband tussen muziek en poëzie" in Rasa Wereldculturencenturm in Utrecht on the occasion of the presentation of Professor J.T.P. de Bruijn's book Een Karavaan uit Perzië, Amsterdam: Bulaaq, 2002. | |
| 4 January 2002 | "Genres in Perzische Volkspoëzie" at Public Library of Rotterdam. | |
| 11 November 2000 | "De volkspoëzie van Khorasan en de kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyâm" at Rasa Wereldculturencenturm Utrecht. |