5-6 Feb 2026: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen
Eleanor Q. Neil: A Cypriot in Rome, A Statuette in Copenhagen
Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja: Collecting Palmyra in Copenhagen: Some insights into the Palmyrene collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Laura P. Gotfredsen, Rubina Raja: Collecting Antioch on the Gold River: the dispersal of Gerasa through the dispersal of excavation finds
Franziska Bloch, Miriam Kühn: From Travel Accounts to Excavation Trenches: Ctesiphon and Khirbat al-Minya as examples for the shaping of archaeological agendas
15-16 May 2025: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen
Olympia Bobou, Michael Blömer, Eleanor Q. Neil, Rubina Raja: Lost Records, Marginalized Sites: Archival gaps in Seleucia and Apamea
Rubina Raja: Reassembling Gerasa: Urban archaeology’s role between geopolitics, regional trajectories and local micro-power
Miriam Kühn: Mapping the Field: Herzfeld’s sketchbooks from the 1907-1908 excursion in the Euphrates-Tigris region Filiz
Tütüncü Çağlar: Theodore Macridy: The devout servant of Ottoman archaeology
17 June 2025: Abandoned Cities - Resilience in Perceptions and Interpretations Kardinal Wendel Haus, Munich
Rubina Raja: Rediscovering “Lost Cities” and the Birth of Urban Archaeology: Urban excavations between the late 19th century and WWII in the Near East
4 June 2025: Invited Guest Lecture Max Planck Institute, Berlin
Rubina Raja: Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and archival practices as knowledge sharing, centralization of power and appropriation of cultural heritage
2-3 Oct 2025: Excavating Cities and Archiving knowledge: Revisiting the rediscovery of “Lost Cities” in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate periods Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, Eleanor Q. Neil: Living with the Ruins: local engagements with archaeological landscapes
Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn, Rubina Raja: Like Joining the Pieces of a Puzzle: examining the documentation surrounding early urban excavations
27-28 Nov 2025: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen
Laura P. Gotfredsen, Eleanor Q. Neil, Rubina Raja: Disentangling Gerasa’s Excavation History through Datafication Eleanor Q. Neil, Rubina Raja: Collection, Collation, and Curation: Critical reflections on the digitisation impulse
