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, "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, "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, Universität 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.