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2024

Rubina Raja, "Local Portrait Habit in an Imperial World: The Portraiture from Palmyra", conference: Portraying the Individual in the Roman East Local-Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12 December 2024.

Rubina Raja, "The Historiography of Urban Archaeology in the Near East", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Contextualizing Roman Ruins in the Near East, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 10 December 2024.

Rubina Raja, "The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Contextualizing Roman Ruins in the Near East, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 9 December 2024.

Rubina Raja, "A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Contextualizing Roman Ruins in the Near East, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 4 December 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series: Contextualizing Roman Ruins in the Near East, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 2 December 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Making and Breaking Cities: the Historiography of Urban Archaeology in the MENA Region ", conference: Building Bridges- 35th Annual Conference of Academia Europaea and Conference of the Young Academy of Europe, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland, 28 November 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Forging the Future: Caesar's Forum Iulium, Augustus' Legacy, and the Shaping of Early Imperial Rome", session: Rome and Macedonia: Living and Remembering in a Common Present, workshop: To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD), Swedish Institute at Athens, Athens, Greece, 21 November 2024.

Rubina Raja, "In Search of Artemis: Revisiting the Archaeology and History of the Sanctuary/ies of Artemis in Gerasa", lecture at: Ancient Architecture Discussion Group, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1 November 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Banquet Tokens as Signifiers of Local Economies and Socio-Religious Patterns in Roman Palmyra", University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 31 October 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Reflections on Local Economies and Socio-Religious Patterns: The Palmyrene Banqueting Tesserae", lecture at: Numismatic Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 30 October 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Excavating Gerasa: In the Field and in the Archives", lecture at: Roman Discussion Forum, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 30 October 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Big Thoughts on Small Sites: Chronology and Overlooked Evidence at Forts and Fortlets Along the Via Nova Traiana", workshop: Roman Transport Infrastructure: Revisiting the Via Nova Traiana, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 October 2024. 

María Coto-Sarmiento, "Modelling the Impact of the Olive Oil Market Competition in Roman Germania", workshop: Roman Transport Infrastructure: Revisiting the Via Nova Traiana, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 October 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyrene ‘Problem’: Considerations on Methods and Material Evidence in the Investigation of Palmyra's Position in Discussions about Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World", conference: Parthian Art & the Graeco-Roman World, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 October 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra and the Roman Military: New Research from the Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: The Army as a Connecting Factor in the Roman World, Split, Croatia, 24 September 2024. 

Cristina Broschetti, "Perle di Vetro in Italia Durante l’età delle Migrazioni: Dinamiche Sociali ed Economiche – Glass Beads in Italy During the Migration Period: Social and Economic Dynamics", conference: PERLE 4.0. Le Perle di Vetro: Evoluzione Tecnologica e Scambi Commerciali Attraverso i Secoli, Correr Museum, Venice, Italy, 16 September 2024.

Craig Harvey, Emanuele Intagliata & Rubina Raja, "Past Geopolitics in the Borderlands: New Research on Military and Trade Presence at Khirbet al-Khalde – Wadi al-Yutm, Aqaba Governorate", session: Session 36: The Military and Long-Distance Trade along the Eastern Roman Frontier, conference: 26th Limes Congress, Batumi, Georgia, 13 September 2024.

Rubina Raja, "Nurture Trust: The Promotion of Novelty in Research", seminar: The Danish National Research Foundation's Annual Meeting 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 september 2024.

Clara Filet & Maria Coto-Sarmiento, "As the Water Flows: a Method for Assessing River Navigability in the Past", Session: The Roman Economic Mosaic: Exploring the Complexity of Economic Dynamics During the Roman Empire, conference: Persisting with change. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EEA), Rome, Italy, 31 August 2024.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Hadriana Palmyra", session: Rome's place in an eponymous empire, conference: Persisting with change. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EEA), Rome, Italy, 29 august 2024.

Maria Coto-Sarmiento & Tom Brughmans, "Market Competition in War Times? The Impact of Olive Oil Production on the Roman economy", session: Modelling Connections: New Methodologies to Understand Human Mobility, Route Networks and Land Use, conference: Persisting with change. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Rome, Italy, 29 August 2024.

Craig Harvey, Emanuele Intagliata & Rubina Raja, "From Pencils to Drone. A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Study of Khirbet al-Khalde (Aqaba Governatorate, Southern Jordan)", conference: Persisting with change. 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Rome, Italy, 28 August. 

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.

Maria Coto-Sarmiento, "Modeling the Role of Cooperation in Response to Adverse Environmental Conditions in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor", workshop: Advances in Modelling Past Human Ecosystems, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 22-24 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", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome 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", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome 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", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome 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", lecture series: Thomas Spencer Jerome 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.