Rubina Raja, "Rediscovering “Lost Cities” and the Birth of Urban Archaeology: Urban Excavations between the late 19th Century and WWII in the Near East", conference: Abandoned Cities – Resilience in Perceptions and Interpretations, Kardinal Wendel Haus, Munich, Germany, 17 June 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage", Invited Guest Lecture, Max Planck Institute for the History og Science, Berlin, Germany, 4 June 2025.
Michael Blömer, Olympia Bobou, Eleanor Quasebarth Neil & Rubina Raja, "Lost Records, Marginalized Sites: Archival Gaps in Seleucia and Apamea", conference: Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “Archives” and their Historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Reassembling Gerasa: Urban Archaeology’s Role between Geopolitics, Regional Trajectories and Local Micro-Power", conference: Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “Archives” and their Historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “Archives” and their Historiographies", conference: Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “Archives” and their Historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Urban Culture in the Desert: New Research on Palmyra (Syria)", seminar: Research Seminar Series, Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Australia, 1 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Reimagining "the Urban" of Classical Antiquity through Case Studies from the Middle East", workshop: Urban Archaeology Workshop, Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney, Australia, 29 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Dismantling and Reassembling Palmyra: Cultural Heritage, Collection Histories and Archaeological Ethics", Invited Guest Lecture, Monash University, Australia, 28 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Contextualising Portraiture in Palmyra", seminar: Ancient World Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Australia, 28 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Greek Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean: Local, Greek and Roman Heritages in Urban Landscapes and the Role of Excavation History", University of Sydney, Australia, 24 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Portrait Habits in Palmyra in the Syrian Desert (1st-3rd century CE)", Invited Guest Lecture, University of Tokyo, Japan, 21 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Forging Urban Archaeology in the Middle East: Archaeological Practice and Geopolitics in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries", Invited Guest Lecture, Department of European History Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan, 18 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Urban Religion in Gerasa/Jerash (Jordan) from the Late Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period", Invited Guest Lecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, 14 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "In search of Artemis-Tyche: the Cult and Sanctuary of Artemis in the Decapolis City of Gerasa", Invited Guest Lecture, University of California at Berkeley, USA, 8 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Creating Urban Archaeology: Entanglements of Archaeological Fieldwork, Research Agendas and Geopolitical Developments in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods", Invited Guest Lecture, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, 7 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Fragmented Urban Anti-Structures from Europe to Western Asia", conference: Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies- Reimagining Ancient Worlds: New Stories of the Distant Past, The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, New York University, USA, 4 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Locally Crafted Empires: a New Perspective on Portrait Habits in the Near East (100 BCE-500 CE)", seminar: Ancient Studies Seminar, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, USA, 1 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, ""Artemis-Tyche of Gerasa": In search of Artemis in the Decapolis city of Gerasa", Invited Guest Lecture, ARCHAIA program, Yale University, USA, 31 March 2025.
Rubina Raja & Jean-Baptiste Yon, "Controlling or Coping with the Desert? Examples from the Region between Palmyra and the Euphrates", conference: Taming the Steppe? Arid Regions under Roman and French Rule (of the 19th Century), Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik (DAI), Munich, Germany, 21 March 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Armed Men in Palmyrene Art", conference: Carving the Individual: Self-Representations in Rock-Cut Monuments in the Parthian, Roman, and Sasanian Near East (2nd c. BCE‒3rd c. CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 6 March 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Excavating Gerasa in the Field and through the Archives of the Mandate Period", University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, 27 February 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Self Representation: The Portraits of Ancient Palmyra and their Importance in World Cultural Heritage", Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 26 February 2025.
Sine Grove Saxkjær, "Alle Veje fører til Rom", Folkeuniversitetet, Online, 17 February 2025.
Rubina Raja, "A Dane in French Mandate Palmyra: Revisiting the Work of Harald Ingholt", conference: Palmyre et ses épigraphistes, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France, 7 February 2025.
