“Toward Decoloniality through Intertextuality and Meaning-Making of Azerbaijani Mugham” lnternational Council for Traditional Music Annual Conference (Lisbon, Portugal), July 2022
“A Nation of Lovers: Mugham, Karabakh, and National Identities in Azerbaijan” National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Conference “The Heritage of Karabakh: Culture, Architecture, Art,” September 2021
“‘When it comes to Love, there is no Border!’: Classical Modal Music, Hybridity, and Intertextuality in post-Soviet West and Central Asia” Music and Spirituality Conference, The Sydney Sacred Music Festival (Western Sydney University, Australia), September 2021
“The Nava Mugham Beyond: Azerbaijani Musicians on a Mission to Recover the Lost Ideal” Sixth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music Conference, June 2021
“The Underground Conservatory of Azerbaijan: Affect, Intertextuality, and Islam in Private Musical Gatherings” Society for Ethnomusicology Virtual Annual Meeting, October 2020
“‘This Path Leads to Eternity!’: Azerbaijani Mugham, the Affect of Eşq, and the Post-Soviet Identities” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (Indiana University Bloomington), November 2019
“‘Performing a ‘Muslim Way of Thinking’: An Ethnomusicologist’s Moment of Alterity” British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (Aberdeen, UK), April 2019
“‘Improvisation is not the right word!’: Native Terminology and Performance Techniques of Azerbaijani Mugham Creativity” Fifth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), June 2018
“‘True Mugham is Within Yourself’: A Decolonial Approach to Musical Creativity in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan” British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (Newcastle University, UK), April 2018
“Nativism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Mugham” “Musical Traditions In a Globalizing World” International Conference (National Conservatory of Azerbaijan, Baku), October 2017
“Performing ‘Mugham Thinking’: Creativities of Mugham in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan” International Council of Traditional Music Annual Conference (Limerick, Ireland), July 2017
“National in Form, Socialist in Content: Disciplining the Temporality of Mugham in Soviet Azerbaijan” “Rhythms of Social Change: Time, Rhythm and Pace in Performance” Symposium (Jackman Humanities Institute, Canada), January 2017
“Improvising Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Identity in the Moment of Performance” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (Washington DC), November 2016
“Azerbaijani Mugham and Possibilities of Improvisation in Discourses and Experience” 8th International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology (Hanover University, Germany), June 2016
“Improvising the Beyond: Ghazal Poetry and the Creative Impulse of Azerbaijani Mugham” British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (Kent University, UK), April 2016
“‘A Bird Needs Two Wings to Fly’: Relationship Between Music and Poetry in Azerbaijani Mugham” Conference on the Music of South, Central, and West Asia (Harvard University), March 2016
“Imagination and Interpretation in the Story of the Azerbaijani Mugham Dastgah” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (Ryerson University, Canada), May 2015
“Poetical Aruz Meters in Vocal and Instrumental Shur Mugham Dastgah: the Significance of Prosodical Meters in ‘Unmetered’ Music” “Literature in the Context of Interreflection of Arts” conference (Western University, Baku, Azerbaijan), October 2014
“Performing and Experiencing a Distortion of Time: Chronotopes of Ojibway Curing Séances” Society for Ethnomusicology Niagara Chapter Meeting (University of Toronto), March 2012
“Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev’s Activities as Musician and Dramatist in India” “Russian and Soviet Music: Reappraisal and Rediscovery” conference (Durham University), July 2011