2026
Olympia Bobou, “Artistic Production at Edessa: from Parthia to Rome”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.
Giulia Vannucci, “Portraits and Identities in the Islands of the Roman Province of Asia”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.
Giovanni Colzani, “Women and Visual Replication in Roman Near East: Notes on the Diffusion and Local Reception of Female Body Types”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.
Julia Steding, “Crafting Identities in the Roman Provinces”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Welcome Speech”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 21 May 2026.
Giulia Vannucci, “Portrait Culture in the Syrian Tetrapolis (100 BCE–500 CE), lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 March 2026.
Olympia Bobou and Will Wootton (King’s College London), “The Anatomy of Appearance: Portraiture and Mosaic Production in Edessa”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.
Giovanni Colzani, “Limestone Portrait Busts from Roman Syria-Palaestina: Considerations on Material, Technique and Style”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.
Giulia Vannucci, “Local Portrait-Making in the Syrian Tetrapolis. Crafting Identities between Local Traditions and Imperial Contexts”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.
Julia Steding, “Portraiture from Roman-period Egypt: New Avenues”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 March 2026.
Rubina Raja, Michael Blömer (University of Münster), and Ben Russell (University of Edinburgh), “Introduction”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 March 2026.
Giovanni Colzani, “Zeitgesicht and Local Fashion in Limestone Portrait Busts from the Roman province Syria Palaestina”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 March 2026.
Olympia Bobou, “Portraits of Edessa”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 24 February 2026.
Julia Steding, “A Banquet for Eternity: Stone Carved Banquet Scenes from Roman-period Egypt”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 17 February 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Locally Crafted Empires: Portrait Habits in West Asia, 100 BCE–400 CE”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 February 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Locally Crafted Empires: A new Semper Ardens Advanced Grant Project on Portrait Sculpture”, seminar: Celebrating a Decade of UrbNet & Future Research, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 February 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Re(de)fining Palmyra: Optimising the Historical Past through Integrating Big Archaeological Datasets from Roman Period Palmyra (Syria)”, colloguium: ZAT-Kolloquium: „Ägypten – Griechenland – Rom: Neue Forschungen”, Trier University, Trier, Germany, 22 January 2026.
2025
Olympia Bobou, "Edessene Mosaic Portraits: Artistic Production at the Borders of Empire", conference: Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 December 2025.
Rubina Raja, “A Needle in a Haystack: Palmyrene Portraits and their Contexts”, conference: Local Portrait Habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 December 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Locally Crafted Empires and Local Portrait Habits", conference: Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 December 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Statements in Stone: Refining the Historical Past Through Integrating Big Archaeological Datasets from Roman Palmyra (Syria)”, lecture series: Mario and Antoniette Romano Lecture, History Department and Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, United States, 6 November 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Faces of the Past: Refining the Historical Past through big Archaeological Datasets from Palmyra (Syria)", guest lecture: Gemeinsamer Gastvortrag-Philosophische Fakultät Institut für Klassische Archäologie & Seminar für Alte Geschichte, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 29 October 2025.
Rubina Raja, "Locally Crafted Empires: Reflections on Palmyrene Portrait Habits After a Decade of the Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: Facing the Past: New Directions in Roman Portraiture, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, 26 September 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Urban Culture in the Desert: New Research on Palmyra (Syria)”, seminar: Research Seminar Series, Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Dismantling and Reassembling Palmyra: Cultural Heritage, Collection Histories and Archaeological Ethics”, invited guest lecture, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 28 April 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Portrait Habits in Palmyra in the Syrian Desert (1st-3rd Century CE)”, invited guest lecture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 21 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, New Jersey, USA, 1 April 2025.
Rubina Raja and Jean-Baptiste Yon (CNRS), “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, Denmark, 6 March 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Self-Representation: The Portraits of Ancient Palmyra and their Importance in World Cultural Heritage”, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26 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.
