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2023

2023

Rubina Raja, “It’s My Party (and I Will Organize it, as I Want to): Thinking Through Economies of Religion in Roman Palmyra”, Conference: Invisible Economies in the Ancient World, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19 December 2023.

Nathanel Andrade & Rubina Raja, “Invisible economies: The Multilayered Economies of Antiquity”, Conference: Invisible Economies in the Ancient World, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 December 2023.

Rubina Raja, “Beyond Funerary Portrait Habits: Funerary Portraits from Palmyra and their Implications for Understanding Funerary Culture in Roman Syria and Egypt”, Conference: Material Culture in Late Antique Egypt and Syria. Contacts, Influence and Disparities, Nijmegen, Holland, 15 December 2023.

María Coto-Sarmiento, "On the Pessimistic Side: Is the Fediverse a Viable Alternative to X for Spanish Researchers?", Session: Archaeo.social: Archaeology in the Fediverse and the Future of Scholarly Social Media. ArcheoFOSS, Univesity of Turin, Turin, Italy, 12 December 2023.

Sarah Croix, "The Walking Dead", conference: Urbnet Christmas Seminar, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, Denmark, 1 December 2023.

Rubina Raja, "In the Field and through the Archives: Exploring the First American-British Campaign in the Decapolis City Gerasa in 1928", Conference: Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 November 2023.

Maria Stamatopoulou, Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Introduction- Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge", Conference: Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 November 2023.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Archival Palimpsets: Researching the Development of the Ingholt Archive", Conference: Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 November 2023.

Matteo Mazzamurro, "Networking with the Romans: Exploring Ancient Connectivity through Inscriptions and Roads", The University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 November 2023. 

Craig Harvey, Emanuele Ettore Intagliata & Rubina Raja, "The Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project: Initial Results from the Inaugural 2023 Survey Season", Conference: American Schools of Overseas Research - Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 18 November 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Death by Data?: Or What Has a Decade of Research on Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture Taught Us about the Ancient World?", Conference: American Schools of Overseas Research - Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15 November 2023. 

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, "Caribbean Digital Archaeology: Ethical Challenges and Best Practices", Workshop: Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future, Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, Holland, 15 November.

Rubina Raja, "Caesar's Forum in a New Light: The Danish-Italian Excavations on Caesar's Forum, 2017-2023", Seminar: The 2023/24 Prichett Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 7 November 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Out of the Desert and into a Global Perspective: Palmyra in a longue durée Perspective (1st cent. BC to 8th cent. AD)", Seminar: The 2023/24 Prichett Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 6 November 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Welcome and Introduction", Conference: Northern Emporium Concluding Symposium: New Light on Emporia and Networks, DGI Huset, Aarhus, Denmark, 26 October 2023.

Derek Parrott, "Shining a Blue Light: Tracking the Northern Emporium Berdal Brooch Mould Assemblage through 3D Scanning", Conference: Northern Emporium Concluding Symposium: New Light on Emporia and Networks, DGI Huset, Aarhus, Denmark, 26 October 2023.

María Coto-Sarmiento, "A Prehistoric Dilemma: Exploring Cooperation Dynamics in the Paleolithic of Kazakhstan Using Agent-Based Model", Conference: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Virtual, 13 October 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "The Northern Emporium Project in Ribe: Excavating and Analyzing a Viking Age Town and it’s Networks", Seminar: Werburgh Street Area Masterplan Archaeology, Dublin City Council, Dublin, Ireland, 12 October 2023.

Kirstine Haase, "Albani Kirke og Den Tidligere By: Del II", Public lecture series, Museum Odense, Odense, Denmark, 10 October 2023. 

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Aggersborg som Verdensarv", Event: UNESCO Designation Event, Aggersborg World Heritage Center, Aggersborg, Denmark, 30 September 2023.

María Coto-Sarmiento, Tom Brughmans & Tyler Franconi, "Exploring Economic Trends in Germania During the Roman Empire through Agent-Based Model", Seminar: Internal Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 21 September 2023.

Sarah Croix, "The Last Campaign at Erritsø", Seminar: Back from the Field Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 13 September 2023. 

Matteo Mazzamurro, "R Workshop- Basics of Network Analysis and Visualisation", Conference: The Connected Past, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 12-13 September 2023.

Søren M. Kristiansen, "Mapping Past Integrated Water Systems: Multiscalar Approaches to Great Zimbabwe's Urban Landscape", Conference: 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Session: Multiproxy Geoarchaeology to Understand Human-Environmental Interactions from Local to Global Changes, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2 September 2023. 

Kirstine Haase, "Urban Landscapes: Reconstructing Past Processes of Landscape Transformation Through 3D Modelling", Conference: 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Session: Weaving Big Data for the Digital Middle Ages, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1 September 2023. 

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, "Beyond Uncertainty: Best Practices for Exploring and Modelling Uncertainties in Regional Archaeological Datasets", Conference: 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Session: Working with Imperfection in Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Data Management, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 31 August 2023. 

María Coto-Sarmiento, Tom Brughmans & Tyler Franconi, "Market Competition in a Frontier Region: Exploring Economic Trends in Germania During the Roman Empire through Simulations Experiments", Conference: 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Session: Modelling Theory in Computational Roman Archaeology, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August 2023. 

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Connected Ideas or Tangled Thoughts? Social Networks in Viking and Medieval Studies", Conference: 16th Interdisciplinary Aarhus Students Symposium on Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Subjects, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 24 August 2023. 

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Women and Children and their Clothing Styles in Sacred Space: The Case of Palmyra", Workshop: Inside Out II: Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity. New Considerations and Further Research Perspectives, Hamburg, Germany, 23 June 2023.

María Coto-Sarmiento, "Survival in the Face of Adversity: Exploring Human Cooperation in the Paleolithic of Kazakhstan through Agent-Based Model", Lecture Series, Computational and Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CDAL), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12 June 2023.

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, "Organizing Scientific Events: Tips and Tricks for Students and Researchers", Invited Lecturer: PhD Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 June 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Sustainable Cities: The editor’s Pick. A view From the Pages Journal of Urban Archaeology", Conference: Varieties of Urbanism, Settlement Dynamics and Climate Change, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 June 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Archaeology of the Ancient Near East – and Aarhus", Conference: 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 May 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Entangled Urban History Beyond Rome post AD 500: Narratives from Gerasa on the Gold River", Seminar: After Rome and Further East Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 18 May 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "New Ways for Urban Archaeology?", Conference: Nordic Urban Archaeology Conference (NUA23): Experiences and New Directions, Copenhagen City Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 May 2023. 

Sarah Croix, "Seeing With Other Eyes: How Technologies and the Natural Sciences are Changing the Stratigraphic Interface", Conference: Nordic Urban Archaeology Conference (NUA23): Experiences and New Directions, Copenhagen City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 May 2023. 

Kirstine Haase, "What is the state of Urban Archaeology in Denmark", Conference: Nordic Urban Archaeology Conference (NUA23): Experiences and New Directions, Copenhagen City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 May 2023.

Sine Grove Saxkjær, "7 Vidundere: Verdens Første Kulturkanon", Lecture: Senioruniversitet AOF Horsens-Hedensted, Megascope Biograferne, Horsens, Denmark, 9 May 2023.

Sarah Croix, "Northern Emporium excavations in Ribe - Experiences and Reflections", Workshop: Complex Stratigraphies, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, Denmark, 8 May 2023. 

Rubina Raja, Søren M. Kristiansen & Søren M. Sindbæk, "Welcome to UrbNet and Introduction to the Workshop", Workshop: Complex Stratigraphies, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, Denmark, 8 May 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Religious Banquets in (Graeco-Roman?) Palmyra: Dining as Expression of Local Traditions or Cultural Affinities with the Graeco-Roman World", Seminar: Greek History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 May 2023. 

Derek Parrott, "All Roads Lead to Ribe: Tracking a Berdal-Style Brooch through Time and Space using 3D Modeling", Conference: 40th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 3 May 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Dining with the Deities: Religious banqueting and Social Interaction in Roman Palmyra", Seminar: Visiting Fellows Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 May 2023. 

Derek Parrott, "Many Ways to Scan a Beast: Using 3D Modeling to Bring New Life to Viking Age Casting Moulds", Conference: Annual DNRF Meeting Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, Denmark, 28 April 2023.

Sarah Croix, "Porous Identities: Gender-less Graves at Viking-age Galgedil, Denmark", Conference: Gendering the Nordic Past: Dialogues between Past and Present, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway, 27 April 2023. 

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Kvinden med Sværdet: Et Amulet-Værksted fra Ribe og Vikingetidens Kult", Invited Guest Lecture, Det Antikvariske Selskab, Ribe, Denmark, 20 April 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "How to Track the Impact of a Catastrophe and an Urban Society’s Resilience: Archaeological ”Big Data” and the Historical Record of Palmyra", Conference: Catastrophes in Context: The Archaeology of Catastrophes from the 1st–8th centuries CE in the Mediterranean Region, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 18 April 2023.

Andrew Wilson & Rubina Raja, "Catastrophes in Context: Closing Remarks and Discussion", Conference: Catastrophes in Context: The Archaeology of Catastrophes from the 1st–8th centuries CE in the Mediterranean Region, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 18 April 2023.

Andrew Wilson & Rubina Raja, "Catastrophes in Context: Welcome and Introduction", Conference: Catastrophes in Context: The Archaeology of Catastrophes from the 1st–8th centuries CE in the Mediterranean Region, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 17 April 2023.

Olympia Bobou, "Communal Hopes for the Future", Workshop: Constructing and Performing Hope in the Premodern World, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, 13 April 2023. 

María Coto-Sarmiento, "Modelling Cooperation under Climate Constraints in the Paleolithic of Kazakhstan", Conference: 50th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland, 6 April 2023.

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, "Ambiguous Landscapes: Quantifying Uncertainty in Non-Systematic Regional Survey Data. Studying Uncertainties in Archaeology", Conference: 50th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Conference, Session: Studying Uncertainties in Archaeology: A New Research Agenda, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland, 3 April 2023.

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, "Rethinking Point Pattern Analysis: Dealing with Archaeological Uncertainties in Non-Systematic Regional Survey Data", Seminar: Materials, Culture and Heritage Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 31 March 2023. 

Cristina Boschetti, "Glittering Waste: Glass from the Landfill of the Sarno Baths in Pompeii", Conference: New Reflections on Old Glass, Virtual, 31 March 2023. 

Cristina Boschetti, "Patterns of Glass Recycling and Supply in Rome: New Results from the Forum of Caesar (First-sixteenth Century CE), Conference: Everything Old is New Again: Recycling and Reuse in Ancient and Historical Glass, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 31 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Inscribed Funerary Culture in Palmyra", Workshop: Inscribing Funerary Space(s), Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 31 March 2023.

Izabela A. Romanowska, Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "The Long Roots of Medieval Palmyra: Water Management from the Roman to the Medieval Islamic period", Conference: Water and the Urban/Rural Nexus in the Medieval Islamic World: Modelling Linkages between Urban Populations, Agricultural Hinterlands and Water Supply, Nijmengen, Holland, 30 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Jordskælv, Arkæologi og Kulturarv", Faglig Frokost, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 30 March 2023. 

Derek Parrott, "All Roads Lead to Ribe? Berdal-Type Brooches in Western Norway", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Kirstine Haase, "Urban Landscapes: 3D Modelling of Urban Stratigraphy", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Olympia Bobou, "How Do You Solve a Problem like Palmyra? Archives and Contexts", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Rowan S. English, “Long Distance Trade in 5th and 6th Century Northern Europe: Materials and Connections”, Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Urban Network Evolutions and Archaeology: UrbNet and its Results", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Sine Grove Saxkjær, "Money Talks: Roman Women on Late Republican Coinage", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Settling the Difference: Approaches to Urban Heterogeneity", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Tom Brughmans, "Exploring Regional Patterns of Production and Consumption in Roman Germania through Quantitative Amphora Data Analysis", Conference: The Archaeology of Urban Networking, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 27 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Tiny Evidence from a Big city: The Social and Religious Implications of the Palmyrene Banqueting Tesserae", Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 21 March 2023.

María Coto-Sarmiento, "Decoding the Past: Using Computational Methods to Explore Cultural Dynamics", Seminar: Brown Bag Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 21 March 2023.

Rowan S. English, "Road and Transport Networks", Seminar: Brown Bag Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 14 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra Undone: Reconstructing Knowledge through Archaeology and Legacy Data", Lecture: 9th Annual Rumble Fund Lecture, King's College, London, United Kingdom, 14 March 2023. 

Kirstine Haase, "Kampen for det Rene Vand: Vandforsyning og Social Praksis i Middelalderbyen Odense", Seminar: Infrastruktur i Middelalderbyen, Museum Odense, Odense, Denmark, 13 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyre, Cité Grecque? Greek Imports and other Influences in (Roman?) Palmyra", Seminar: Greek Archaeology Group & Prehistoric and Early Greece Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 9 March 2023.

Cristina Boschetti, "Recycler le Verre, un Étude entre Archéologie et Chimie", seminar: MA-student Seminar, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France, 9 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Epigraphy in Palmyra: A short Overview of 3000 Plus Inscriptions from the 1st Century CE to the Late 3rd Century CE", Conference: Long Epigraphic Friday, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 4 March 2023. 

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Porten til Vikingetiden: Ribe og den Tidlige Søfart i Nordsøen", Invited Guest Lecture, Vikingeskibsmuseet, Roskilde, Denmark, 2 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra: Urban Culture in the Syrian Desert", Invited Guest Lecture, All Souls College, Oxford, Great Britain, 23 February 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "New Results from The Danish-Italian Excavations of Caesar's Forum", Seminar: Roman Discussion Forum, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 February 2023.

Rogier van der Heijden, "Constructing the Past. Imperial Temporality and Civic Identity in Roman Sardis and Gerasa", Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus, Denmark, 10 February 2023.

Søren M. Sindbæk, "Bead Workshops in Eighth-century CE Ribe: Technology, Provenance, and Chronology", Conference: Secondary Glass Productions in the Early Middle Ages, CNRS Orléans, Orléans, France, 26 January 2023.

Derek Parrott, "All Roads lead to Ribe: Tracing Oval Brooch Models from Viking Age Ribe through Ceramic Casting Moulds", Invited talk, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 24 January 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Beyond Palmyra: After the Palmyra Portrait Project", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Reconsidering Palmyra’s History: The Ingholt Archive since the Palmyra Portrait Project", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Post Palmyra Portrait Project: Session Introduction", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, Session: Post Palmyra Portrait Project: Towards a Holistic Approach to Ancient Urban Societies, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Olympia Bobou, "Between Image and Practice: Two Portraits from the Tomb of Ḥairan", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Jon Frey & Rubina Raja, "Current Trends in Archive Archaeology: Session Introduction", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, Session: Current Trends in Archive Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 6 January 2023.