Chair at MIDDLE EAST NOW, The British Museum, London, 20 May 2006

COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY ARAB AND IRANIAN ART, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 23 June 2006

IRANIAN CINEMA, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, April 2005

CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART, Barakat Trust Conference, Oxford, July 2005

Study Day on Middle East, London School of Business, 2004

ARAB ISLAMIC ART, study day at The British Museum, London, 2004

IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN HEFUNA, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2004

MODERNITY AND TRADITION IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE MIDDLE EAST, Collecting Now seminar, British Museum, 8 March 2003

IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, Barbican Art Centre, London 2001

PRECONCEPTIONS AND IDENTITIES, debate, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 19 August 2000

NEW IRANIAN CINEMA , Glasgow Film Theatre, 31 October 1999

IRANIAN CNEMA, Iranian film festival, National Film Theatre, BFI, Southbank, London 1999