On October 21st 2021, AFSACK hosted its second Salon Conversation with Bissera Pentcheva (Professor of Medieval Art, Stanford University) and Peter McMurray (Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, University of Cambridge), moderated by Payam Yousefi (Harvard University, Music Department).

On May 8th 2021, AFSACK hosted its inaugural Salon Conversation on the theme of Sound with members of the MTO Zendeh Delan ® ensemble on the topic of Sama, the Sufi practice of listening with the heart that fuses motion, music, and poetry.