2026
Rubina Raja, “Making Sense of Collection Histories: Cultural Heritage in Context”, lecture: Art + Law Colloquium, Center for Art Law, Brooklyn, United States, 16 June 2026.
Rubina Raja and Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “Send More Money: Financing of Large-Scale Excavations in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate Period”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Welcome”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Competing to Collect “Lost Cities” in late 19th and early 20th Centuries Asia Minor and the Near East: Denmark’s Role on the International Scene”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6 May 2026.
Eleanor Q. Neil, “A Cypriot in Rome, A Statuette in Copenhagen”, conference: 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, Denmark, 5 February 2026.
Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja, “Collecting Palmyra in Copenhagen: Some Insights into the Palmyrene Collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek”, conference: 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, Denmark, 5 February 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Collecting Antioch on the Gold River: the Dispersal of Gerasa through the Dispersal of Excavation Finds”, conference: 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, Denmark, 5 February 2026.
Franziska Bloch (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin) and Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “From Travel Accounts to Excavation Trenches: Ctesiphon and Khirbat al-Minya as Examples for the Shaping of Archaeological Agendas”, conference: 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, Denmark, 5 February 2026.
Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), and Rubina Raja, “Welcome and Introduction”, conference: 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, Denmark, 5 February 2026.
Rubina Raja, “Archives and Urbanism: Examining Early Excavations through the Lost Cities Project”, seminar: Celebrating a Decade of UrbNet & Future Research, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 February 2026.
2025
Rubina Raja, “Oriental Studies, Islamvidenskab, and the Archaeology of the Orient: Some Notes on the Danish Engagements in the Region in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, conference: One Century of “Oriental” and Semitic Studies, 1830 through 1933 (and beyond): Scholarly Networks, Trajectories and Concepts, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 12 December 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Ways of Seeing the Past: The Archaeological Archive(s) of Palmyra”, lecture: Bard Graduate Center, Bard College, New York, United States, 9 December 2025.
Eleanor Q. Neil and Rubina Raja, “Collection, Collation, and Curation: A Critical Reflection on the Digitisation Impulse”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 November 2025.
Eleanor Q. Neil and Rubina Raja, “Introduction: Archaeology, Archives and the Digital Turn”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 November 2025.
Laura P. Gotfredsen, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja, “Disentangling Gerasa’s Excavation History through Datafication”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 November 2025.
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar and Eleanor Q. Neil, “Living with the Ruins: Local Engagements with Archaeological Landscapes”, conference: 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, Denmark, 3 October 2025.
Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Rubina Raja, “Like Joining the Pieces of a Puzzle: Examining the Documentation Surrounding early Urban Excavations”, conference: 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, Denmark, 3 October 2025.
Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), and Rubina Raja, “Welcome and Introduction”, conference: 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, Denmark, 2 October 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Rediscovering “Lost Cities” and the Birth of Urban Archaeology: Urban Excavations between the late 19th Century and WWII in the Near East”, conference: Abandoned Cities - Resilience in Perceptions and Interpretations Kardinal Wendel Haus, Munich, Germany, 17 June 2025.
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”, guest lecture, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, 4 June 2025.
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, “Theodore Macridy: The Devout Servant of Ottoman Archaeology”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Rubina Raja “Reassembling Gerasa: Urban Archaeology’s Role between Geopolitics, Regional Trajectories and Local Micro-Power”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “Mapping the Field: Herzfeld’s Sketchbooks from the 1907-1908 Excursion in the Euphrates-Tigris Region”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Michael Blömer (University of Münster), Olympia Bobou, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja, “Lost Records, Marginalized Sites: Archival Gaps in Seleucia and Apamea”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.
Rubina Raja, “Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological ‘Archives’ and their Historiographies”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 May 2025.
