Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali

• “Muslim sacred spatialities in Transition: The Mosques of Kerala” in an international conference on 'Religion and Social Diversity in South Asia' (October 12-14, 2015) at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.
• “Jasad-ul-Muslim’ Sailing Across ‘Duniyavu’: Imagery, Pedagogy and ‘Ilm, a Painting from a Mosque in Malabar, Kerala” in ‘Ilm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam', (20-23 July 2016) fifth international conference organized by CAMEA (Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture), at University of Adelaide,South Australia.
• “Sailing across 'Duniyav': A Ship painting from an 18th century Mosque in Malabar, South India” in 'Speech and Space: Discursive Environment across non-Arab Islam' 7-9 September 2017, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, U.S.A.
• “Between ‘Syncretic’ Past and ‘Islamic’ Present: Muslim Sacred Spaces in Malabar”, at the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala, India, 28th October 2017.
• "Articulating Sufi-Interstitiality in the Age of Steam: Muslim Ship Imagery from the Colonial Malabar, South India" to be presented at the Eurasian doctoral colloquium , October 5-7 at Gustav Stresemann Institute, Bonn.
• Improvisation Through a Culture of Dependency: Islamic material culture in the South Indian littorals. Dependency, Inequality and Material Culture Workshop at the University of Bonn, 12.-14. February 2019.
• "Articulating Sufi-Interstitiality in the Age of Steam: Muslim Ship Imageries from the Colonial Malabar’ (updated) in ‘Vernacular and Cosmopolitan in South Asian Islam", University of Pennsylvania, April 5-6, 2019.
• "Thinking through bricolage(s): Problematizing ‘Islamic Architecture’ in the littorals of South India’ in ‘Primacy of Form", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; 2019.https://islamhumanities.org/conference/2019/people/jahfar-shareef-pokkanali
• "The Arts of Littoral Islam: Through the Porches of Mosques in the Southern Coasts of India" in ‘The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art’, fellow presentation in Eighth Biennial Hamad-bin-Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, Doha, November 10- 11, 2019, Sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, VCU art Qatar and the Qatar Foundation.
• "The Dance of Subaltern Gods: Caste Ideology, and Dependency in the Liminal Structure of ‘Theyyams’ on the Malabar Coast, South India" in ‘Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms: Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia’ Virtual Workshop October 14-15, 2021, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn.

Panel organised and Chaired in Conference

• Conference Panel: ‘Bodies of Dependency’ in Embodied Dependencies, September 22-23, 2021, BCDSS, University of Bonn/Online