Our nominated theme for 2017 is entitled, The Question of the Stranger. A description of the theme

appears below. We encourage scholars working on this theme to apply for Visiting Fellowships at our Centre. One non-thematic fellowship will also be offered to ANU Gender Institute.

Visiting professor at UrbNet April-June 2016.

New publication by Rubina Raja.

Interview with Professor Rubina Raja.

Expert recommendations from the conference: “Fighting the looting of Syria´s cultural heritage”, Sofia, 16th September 2015. A conference organized by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Sofia and the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), under the patronage of UNESCO and in…

A group of archaeologists began collecting art for the world's largest database of ancient portraits from Palmyra, Syria, right before the war broke out. Now, it's one of the best hopes of tracing looted art.

Rubina Raja never intended to have anything to do with the illicit arts trade. A professor of classical archaeology, trained in Oxford and based at Aarhus University in Denmark, Raja started collecting information on portraits that frequently adorned nearly 2,000-year-old graves in Palmyra, Syria,…

UrbNet PhD student.

Interview with Professor Rubina Raja.

11 March 2016.