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A new monograph by Olympia Bobou, Ilaria Bucci and Rubina Raja, exploring how vessels in Palmyrene funerary sculpture reveal values, rituals, social identity, and economic networks.
Meet our new Postdoc Giovanni Colzani
Meet our new Postdoc Giulia Vannucci
Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years fixed-term contract) in the research project Locally Crafted Empires (LoCiS), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. Application deadline: 1 May 2026.
Meet our new Postdoc Julia Steding
On 1-2 December 2025, the conference Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) took place in Copenhagen. It brought together researchers to explore how locally produced portraits from Western Asia and Egypt express identities shaped by shifting imperial regimes. It centered on…
In 2026, the LoCiS project will welcome the first postdoctural researchers to the team.
The largest Carlsberggrant for the humanities this year goes to an ambitious project on the global historical importance of ancient visual culture. At the head of the project is Professor of Classical Archaeology Rubina Raja, who has received a Semper Ardens Advance grant from the Carlsberg…
