Conference Papers

·       "A Mediterranean State? Transport Routes and the Ottoman Mediterranean," at the Panel “The 'Sick Man' of the Global Turn: The Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth Century Mediterranean”, The Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History on “Critical Global Histories:  Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions” to be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, September 10-12, 2025.

·       “The End and the Beginning of History: Interdependent Temporalities of Liberal Democracy and The Need for a New Political Theory,” at the Panel Political Ways of Living: Liberalism as a Form of Life, 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science with the theme "Resisting  Autocratization in Polarized Societies", Seoul, 12-16 July 2025,

·       "Changing Energy Systems, Uneven Development, and Political Ideologies,” at the Development Studies Association, DSA2025: Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development, Bath University, 25-28 June 2025.

·       “A Transport Revolution Unfolding? Transport Capitalism and Democratisation in Late Ottoman Era,” The 58^thMiddle East Studies Association (MESA), Virtual, November 11-16, 2024.

·       "Transportation, Roads and Political Ideologies: Legacies of Globalisation, Transportation and Capitalism in Late Ottoman Era," BRISMES, 1-3 July 2024, Lancaster University, UK.

·       “Illiberal Liberalism, Liberal Illiberalism: Scramble for the Mediterranean for Market Integration in the Long Nineteenth Century,” 74^th PSA Annual International Conference, 25-27 March 2024, in the section of History and International Relations, University of Glasgow, UK.

·   “Poetical Islam: An Environmental Theology?” Faith and the Environment Conference, Centre for Muslim – Christian Relations, 1 March 2024, Oxford, UK.

·   “What are the Histories of Islams and Muslims a History of?” Islamic Studies Network, Work in Progress Papers, 14 November 2023, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Oxford University, UK. 

·       “Transport Technologies and Pan-Ideologies: Connecting the Interior in Ottoman Territories in Global Context (1850-1910),” MESA, 2 November 2023, in the section "Ottoman Social and Environmental Engineering in the Long Nineteenth Century," Montreal, CA.

·       “Roads, Transport Revolution, and Late Ottoman and Qajar Era Religious Roots of Secularism in the 1920s Turkey,” International Conference “Culture, Infrastructure, Mobility,” 9 October 2023, Sofia University, Bulgaria.

·       “Technology Adoption and Populist Sentiments: Making a People by Inventing the ‘Others’ in the Middle East at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” IPSA, 15-19 July 2023, in the section Politics in the Age of Transboundary Crises, Argentina.

·       “‘The petrol-gas that we know’: Ottoman Encounter with Cars and Negotiating Globalisation,” World History Congress, 22-24 June 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, US. 

·   “Driving Through the Ottoman Lands: The Ban on Cars and the Ottoman Negotiation of Globalisation,” Writing Global History: Perspectives from the South Workshop, organised by South Asia Global History Network, 12-14 January 2023 (virtual).