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2024

Rubina Raja, "Palimpsests of Knowledge: The Many Lives of St. Theodore's Church in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)", seminar: The Many Lives of Ancient Monuments: Getty Traveling Seminar Symposoum, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 27 June 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Coining Religious Urban Rivalry in the Decapolis: The Case of Gerasa", conference: Objects as a Lens on Groups Formations in the Cities of the Roman Empire (1st to 4th Century CE), session: Urban Rivalries and Religious Group Formations: Coins, Erfurt Universität, Germany, 21 June 2024.

Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Thomas R. Blanton IV, Rubina Raja & Anette Weissenrieder, "Podium Discussion- Verführerische Gegenstände (Tempting Objects)", conference: Objects as a Lens on Groups Formations in the Cities of the Roman Empire (1st to 4th Century CE), Erfurt Universität, Germany, 18 June 2024.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "The Danish Trade in Palmyrene Objects", workshop: Digging up the Past: Aspects of a Multi-Layered Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century, Online, 7 June 2024. 

Olympia Bobou, Julia Lenaghan & Rubina Raja, "Re-evaluating the Senate House and Its Sculptures", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Lived Spaces in Palmyra , Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "The Lived Experience of Funerary Spaces", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Lived Spaces in Palmyra , Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Rubina Raja & Jörg Rüpke, "Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology, Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Palmyra's Sacred Spaces", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology, Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Christopher Hallett & Rubina Raja, "Missing Entrances and Conjectural Connections: Probing the Boundaries of the First Imperial Forum in Rome", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Ordering Space: Strategies of Boundary Making on Fora and Agorai - Introduction, Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Lived Spaces in Palmyra: Between Legacy data and Archeological Reports –position paper", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Lived Spaces in Palmyra , Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Lived spaces in the Urban Desert: Urban Priests, Urban Religion, Urban Space in Palmyra, Syria", conference: XXe Congrès international d’archéologie classique, session: Urban Religion through the Lens of Urban Archaeology, Paris, France, 5 June 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Probing the Boundaries of the First Imperial Forum in Rome: Caesar and His Visions for the World Seen through the Forum Iulium", conference: Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire, University of Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany, 31 May 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Images in Context: Contextualising Palmyrene Portraits", ARWA – The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western & Central Asia: 2024 AAA online lecture of the Art History & Visual Studies series ‘How to Interpret Images’, online, 24 May 2024.

Rubina Raja, "A Conversation About Gerasa", Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 29 April 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Epigraphy in Context: 300 Years of Epigraphic Habit and Material Culture in the Desert of Palmyra", lecture series: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Sommersemester 2024, München, Germany, 26 April 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Imperiets Udørk eller Toppen af Poppen", seminar: Forårsseminar 2024: "Barbarerne kommer!", Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20 April 2024.

Julia Steding, Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Working Through the Harald Ingholt Archives", conference: Writing History in the 21st Century : WritHist NOS-Workshop, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway, 4 April 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Appropriating the Roman Cities of the East. The Historiography of Archaeology: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series", lecture series: Contextualising Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 25 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Digging Caesar’s Forum: Rome’s urban culture in a longue durée Perspective", seminar: Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 23 March. 

Rubina Raja, "The Long Late Antiquity. From Cities to Villages and Back Again: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series", lecture series: Contextualising Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 22 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea. The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series", lecture series: Contextualising Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 20 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East. Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series", lecture series: Contextualising Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 18 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyre, Cité Grecque in a Roman World? Tracing and Understanding Greek Influences in Roman Palmyra through Imports, Iconography and Architectural Traditions", lecture: The Rumpakis Family Lecture, Willamette University, Oregon, USA, 14 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "The Emergence of an Urban Archaeology: Entanglements Between Archaeological Fieldwork and Geopolitical Developments in the 19th and 20th Centuries", lecture: Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) San Francisco Society Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 12 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Urban Culture in the Syrian Desert: New Research on Palmyra", University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA, 11 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Julius Caesar and his Forum Iulium: A Formative Space in the Heart of Rome", The Getty Villa Museum, Malibu, USA, 10 March 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra and the Third-Century ‘Crisis’ at Home", conference: Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third-Century Crisis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Bykultur i den Syriske Ørken: Ny Forskning Omkring Oasebyen Palmyra", Nestor, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 27 February 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Investigating the Past as Palimpsests of Knowledge: The Case of Archaeological Research at Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)", University of Milan, Milan, Italy, 20 February 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Integrating Archaeology and Historiography in Resonant Self-World Relations: Palmyra and its Priests", University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 6 February 2024.