PAST
Lights, Camera, Inclusion: Diversifying Hollywood’s Stories, with Helen Estabrook and Kamala Avila-Salmon, The OpEd Project, online, August 22, 2023 (organizer and moderator)
Thought Leadership in an Age of Contagious Technologies, with Sree Sreenivasan and Teresa Puente, The OpEd Project, online, July 25, 2023 (organizer and moderator)
The Mountain at the Center: Reflections on Etel Adnan, Small Press Traffic, online, February 27, 2022 (panelist)
Syria’s Fraught Balance: Movement, Politics and Dabke Performance: in conversation with Shayna Silverstein, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley, February 19, 2020 (respondent)
Dionne Lee: Running, rigging, wading, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA, August 2019 (panelist)
In conversation with Abbas Akhavan, Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, May 2019 (speaker)
Communities and Institutions: A Conversation, Curatorial Research Bureau, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, April 2019 (panelist)
Model City with Nicholas de Monchaux, Gary Kamiya and Alison Isenberg, Night of Ideas, San Francisco Public Library, February 2019 (organizer and moderator)
Books and Public Discourse: Rebecca Solnit and Paul Yamazaki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 2018 (organizer and moderator)
Street Art as Political Currency, SF Urban Film Fest, San Francisco, November 2018 (panelist)
Contemporary Art and Public Life, Gund Gallery Faculty Seminar, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, November 2018 (speaker)
Civil Society, Hacking Politics Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley, October 2018 (organizer and moderator)
On Etel Adnan, Staff Picks gallery talk, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2018 (speaker)
The Merits of Micro-Sabotage with Minerva Cuevas and Alexandra Bell, Airbnb, San Francisco, June 2018 (organizer and moderator)
Reimagining the City with Gray Brechin and Robin Abad, Public Knowledge Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 2018 (organizer and moderator)
Conversations, Counterpoints, Crossroads: Artists and Public Discourse with Chitra Ganesh, Ala Ebtekar, Chris Johnson and Dawn Weleski, Oakland Museum of California, March 2018 (organizer and moderator)
Subject Positions: Thoughts on Art, Place and Identity, Teaching Art of the Middle East and the Islamic World, de Young/San Francisco State University, November 2017 (speaker)
The Growth and Impact of Non-Profits and Artist Collectives, Forum for Transnational Collaboration, University of San Francisco, November 2017 (moderator)
Alumni Curators Across Disciplines, Berkeley Arts + Design, UC Berkeley, November 2017 (panelist) (video)
The City as Archive with Christina Moretta, Public Knowledge Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2017 (organizer and moderator)
What can Public Knowledge be? with Minerva Cuevas, Bik Van der Pol and Stephanie Syjuco, Does Art Have Users? San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2017 (co-organizer and moderator)
The Arts and Public Service, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 2017 (organizer and moderator)
The Art of Looking Back II, New Approaches to Curating the Region, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, March 2017 (panelist)
Exhibition and Engagement Practices at Institutions, Refracting Abstraction, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, January 2017 (panelist)
Designing A Legacy: Female Game Changers in Art and Culture, SFMOMA ArtBites, FOG Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, January 2017 (moderator)
·Socially Engaged Arts Research, Open Engagement, Oakland Museum of California, May 2016 (panelist)
Intersection of Technology, Art and Science, GSVLabs, Redwood City, CA, March 2016 (panelist)
“What Remains,” with Jananne Al Ani and Trevor Paglen, The Photographic Event, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2016 (organizer and moderator)
50 Artists: Deena Chalabi on Jananne Al Ani, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2016 (speaker)
Public Outreach as Public Sector Practice, Cross-Sector Collaboration conference, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley, April 2016 (panelist)
Searching in Tongues, Asia Art Archive Open Platform, Art Basel Hong Kong, March 2015 (panelist)
Curating Arab Art: Local and International Perspectives, Curating the Region: Reflections from Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, NY, September 2014 (panelist)
·Artists and Civic Life, Open City Art City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2014 (panelist)
·Conflict Zones, including Claudia Bernardi, Urban Subjects, Emily Jacir, Cheyenne Epps and Kyle Lane-McKinley, Visual Activism, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA, March 2014 (moderator)
·What should be remembered or forgotten? with Hamid Dabashi and Slavs and Tatars, Future City, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, September 2013 (organizer and moderator)
Continuous City: Mapping Arab Literature in London with Ibrahim El Salahi, Hisham Matar, Margaret Obank, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sophia Al-Maria and Ma’an Abu Taleb, London Review Bookshop, July 2013 (organizer and moderator)
Tracing History with Hrair Sarkissian and Meiro Koizumi and Subverting Kitsch with Zena Al-Khalil and Sputniko! Same Same but Different: The Role of the Artist in the Arab World and Japan, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, September 2012 (organizer and moderator)
The Pop-Up Museum, Communicating the Museum conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2012 (speaker)
Institution as Instigator with Gilane Tawadros and Artist as Instigator with Emily Jacir, Zineb Sedira and Wael Shawky, Interference, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, July 2011 (organizer and moderator)
Curating Mathaf with Nada Shabout, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath and H.E. Sheikh Hassan Al-Thani, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, December 2010 (panelist)
Beginnings: a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Sketch, London, UK, October 2010 (organizer and speaker)
Conversation with artist MF Husain, Crucial Moments, Global Art Forum 4, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, March 2010 (moderator)