Series of four lectures entitled ‘La Communauté juive de Jérusalem à la fin du VIIème siècle selon l’interprétation de la Bible de Raphaël Mordekhai Malki’, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: Section des Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne, Paris	1992
‘The Survey of Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey’, Annenberg Institute for Advanced Studies, Philadelphia	1992
‘In Pursuit of the Past: The Jewish Archives of Salonika and their Research Potential’, Athens University and the University of Crete	1998
Keynote Address at the Inauguration of the Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Haifa, University of Athens	2000
‘The Jewish Fishermen and Boatmen’s Guilds in 19th Century Istanbul’, The Amado Lecture, UCLA Centre for Judaic Studies	2001
‘The Last Ottoman Century and Beyond: The Jews of Turkey and the Balkans, 1808-1945’, Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University	2003
‘The Hamidian Era through the Jewish Looking Glass’, The Annual Ertegun Lecture at The Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University	2004
‘Jews and Greeks Remember Their Past: The Political Career of Rabbi Tzevi Koretz (1933-1943)’, Duke University NC	2004
‘A World at War-The Family at War: Istanbul Jewry, 1917-1920’, The Annual Ertegun Lecture at The Near Eastern Studies Department, Princeton University	2006
‘Why do People Print Books? The Social Role of Book Printing among the Jews of Istanbul in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries’, The Centre for Judaic Studies, Stanford University CA	2006
‘The Endowment of Lady Khrisula the Karaite: Urban Reality and Dynastic Continuity in Ottoman Istanbul’, The Centre for Judaic Studies, Duke University NC.	2006
‘L'idée d'une vie posthume dans le société juive méditerranéenne au 16ème –18ème siècles,’ A propos des savoirs pré-scientifiques dans l’Europe des débuts de l’âge moderne,Colloque du CRM et de l’Ircom/Université de Haifa, Centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne.	2011
‘Five Hundred Years of “Daughter Trouble”: Jewish Families and Their Daughters in the Ottoman Era,’ University of Bucarest, Faculty of Social Studies.	2012
‘Five Hundred Years of “Daughter Trouble”: Jewish Families and Their Daughters in the Ottoman Era,’ Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at the Central European University, Budapest.	2012
State Servants and Jewish Leadership: The Jewish Community of Istanbul 1826-1922,ʼʽ Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany, October 25,2017.	2017