Talks & Workshops

Selected Talks

Radical Self-Care

Self-Care in a Non-Ideal World: Caregiver Burnout, Relentless Media Coverage and Hidden Pain

Hypatia’s 40th Anniversary Conference, University of Oregon. (September 2023).

Reflections on Suffering and Self-Care in Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy

Social Justice and Oppression Workshop, The University of Alabama. (April 2023).

Feminism

Sharam, Haya, and the MeToo Movement in Muslim Communities

National Women Studies Association Conference (November 2019).

Sharam, Haya, and the MeToo Movement in Muslim Communities

Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, Washington DC. (June 2019).

#MeToo in Muslim Communities

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. (April 2019).

#MeToo, Our experiences in our families

MeToo & Muslim Women Unconference, New Horizons in British Islam. (April 2019).

Sharam Haya and the MeToo Movement in Muslim Communities

Department of History, Philosophy and Culture and the BAME Action Group, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. (March 2019).

Marginalized within the Margins, Modesty, and the Me Too Movement in Muslim American Lives

American Philosophical Association Eastern, New York, NY. (January 2019).

#MeToo in Muslim America

SLU Women's and Gender Studies Department, Saint Louis University, St. Louis. (January 2019).

#MeToo in the context of Muslim American Lives

Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. (October 2018).

Patriarchy as Justification for “Uncitizening”: The case of Muslim Refugees.

National Women’s Studies Association (November 2017).

Oppressive Freedoms: hijab, burkini, and bikinis

SIUE Women Studies Program, Sept 2016

Contested Terrains: Women of Color, Feminisms, and Geopolitics

Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Clearwater Beach, FL. (October 2015).

Women of Color in the Academy and Epistemic Doubt

APA-CSW & Hypatia: Exploring Collaborative Contestations and Diversifying Philosophy, APA Committee on the Status of Women & Hypatia, Villanova, PA. (May 2015).

Women of Color in the Academy and Epistemic Doubt. (March 17, 2015).
Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (November 22, 2014).

Beauvoir’s Analysis of the Muslim Woman

Diverse Lineages of Existentialism, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2014).

Muslim Women

Lifelong Learning program, Edwardsville, IL. (September 18, 2013).

Persepolis

Glen Carbon Library, Glen Carbon, IL. (April 18, 2013).

Experiences in Makkah & Medina: Space Allocation & Gender in Islam

Shifting Paradigms in Religious Studies: History, Culture, and Practice, SUNY Fredonia, Buffalo, NY. (April 2013).

Veiling & Communication.

SIUE (January 2013).

Muslim Women

Edwardsville Public Library, Edwardsville, Illinois. (March 14, 2013).

#MeToo in Muslim Communities

De Montfort University, UK

Damage by Allies

Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Clearwater Beach, FL

Workshops Led

Microaggression: what do we do?

Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Southern Illinois University School of Law. (April 2023).

Responsible Use of Social Media

Zainabiya Anjuman-e-Ahle Bayt, Hazelwood, MO. (March 2023).

Handling the ‘Other’ Side When You Are Committed to Social Justice: Teaching Race, Immigration, and Foreign Policy at PWIs

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers Teaching Hub, American Philosophical Association Central, Denver. (February 23, 2023).

Let’s Strategize: Exploring Microaggressions in Academia and Finding A Way Forward

Co-presented with Dr. Reiheld & Dr. Carter, NWSA National Conference, National Women's Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. (November 10, 2018).

Confronting Anti-Muslim Oppression,

Sponsored by St. Louis Anti-Racist Collective (ARC), Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), St. Louis. (April 2017).

Difficult Conversation Panel: Damage by Allies

Contested Terrains: Women of Color, Feminisms, and Geopolitics, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Clearwater Beach, FL. (October 2015).

Embracing Our Muslim Neighbors

Center for Spirituality & Sustainability, Edwardsville. (June 2015 - October 2015).

Led a Writing Retreat

Center for Faculty Development & Innovation. (March 2022 - May 2022).

My Feminism is Intersectional

Inclusive Excellence, Education and Development Hub. (March 2022).

Led a Writing Retreat

Faculty Development Group. (August 2014 - March 2020).

Keynotes

Reflections on Torture at Guantánamo Bay

Scholar in residence, St. Mary's College of Maryland. (September 2023).

Distorted humanity: Reflections from a feminist Muslimah lens

World Congress of Bioethics and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Doha, Qatar. (June 2024).

Where does the pain go when it goes away’: Politics of Self-Care

2022 FEAST Conference, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. (October 2022).

I know what happened to me: The epistemic harms of microaggression

15th Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, SIUE Philosophy Department. (October 2021).

#Me Too in Muslim America

Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series, University of Illinois Springfield. (October 2019).

#MeToo in Muslim America

Inspiring TriVia*: The Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series, Northeastern Illinois University. (March 2019).

Emigration and Forced Migration: Case Studies from the Muslim World

The College of Arts and Sciences SIUE, Edwardsville, IL. (April 2, 2014).

Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE) Speaker Series

University of Illinois Springfield

Schola Moralis Philosophiae (School of Moral Philosophy)

Bodleian Library, Door Way, Oxford, England

The Political Muslim

In the times of genocide, what do we owe as academics?

Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy. (March 21, 2025).

Didn’t Realize You’re Asian!’: The Overwhelming Power of Muslim American Identity

American Philosophical Association Central. (February 2022).

Navigating Politics from the Peripheral: The United States’ Muslim Problem

American Philosophical Association Central, Chicago, IL. (March 2018).

Democracy After Trump

American Philosophical Association Eastern, Savanah, GA. (January 2018).

Experiencing Prejudice: Examining the Muslim American Case

Workshop on Prejudice: Intersecting Methods and Perspectives WashU, APA, Washington University in St Louis. (November 10, 2017).

Muslim American Political Disenfranchisement

Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, NYC, NY. (January 2017).

The Muslim-American Problem

University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC. (November 2016).

What Does it Mean to be American?

St. Louis University Philosophy Department Colloquium, (November 11, 2016).

From Where I Stand: Critical Distance in Bioethics as Choice and Circumstance

American Society for Bioethics & Humanities, Washington DC. (October 31, 2016).

What Does it Mean to be American?.

SIUE Philosophy Department Colloquium (April 22, 2016).

Fatima, S., Central American Philosophical Association, "Being Brown in Academia and Epistemic Insecurity," American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL. (March 3, 2016).
Torture and the American Social Imagination
California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, Dayton, OH. (October 2015).
Being Brown in Academia and Epistemic Insecurity
32nd International Social Philosophy Conference: Education & Social Justice, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Liberty, MO. (July 2015).

Islam

What is Shia Islam

Lifelong Learning Institute, Edwardsville, Illinois. (November 2022).

Muslim Experiences

Bethel Lutheran Church, St. Louis, IL. (February 2017).

Divine Consumption: Sustainability within Halal Food Laws

30th International Social Philosophy Conference, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut. (July 12, 2013).

Multicultural Issues in Psychology: Islamophobia.

(November 2017).

Islam & War: Muslim Awareness Day

Muslim Student Association. (December 15, 2015).

Islamic Burials

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (September 2015).

Sectarianism

Lifelong Learning Program, Edwardsville, IL. (February 2015).

Islamic Awakening

Lifelong Learning Program, Edwardsville, IL. (March 2014).

Praying in front of Kaba, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Taken June 2022)

Medical Humanities

Intersectional approach to gender, Islam, and bioethics

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, St. Louis. (September 20, 2024).

Bioethics at the Margins: Re-centering Practitioners, De-marginalizing Practices

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Kansas City, MO. (October 2017).

Billing Low Income Uninsured Patients as an Ethical Concern

Health Humanities Consortium, (March 2017).

Care of Muslim Patients

Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. (December 2015).

The Character of a Physician

Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, Kalamazoo, MI. (September 26, 2013).

The Possibility of Character for a Physician

Conference on Value Inquiry: : Virtue, Vice, and Character, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. (April 2013).

“Medical Ethics and Empathy,” Senior Resident FOCUS, Family Medicine Residency Program at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, KY; Sep 2011 & Aug 2012

Care of Muslim Patients, Mercy Hospital St. Louis

DEI

"Conversations about being a minority in academia, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) Brooklyn College, May 2015
“Understanding Race Lingo: Racial Experiences in America,” SIUE Black Lives Matter Series, SIUE, Mar 2015
“SIUE Hijab Day Challenge,” Muslim Student Association, SIUE Chapter, Feb 2014
“Muslim Women Today” Life Long Learning Programs, SIUE, Sep 2013 AND Edwardsville Library Spring Program, Edwardsville Public Library, Mar 2013
“Women in Islam in the context of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” The Year of the Book Series, Women Studies Program, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Oct 2012