Rubina Raja, "Palmyre, Cité Grecque in a Roman World? Tracing and Understanding Greek Influences in Roman Palmyra through Imports, Iconography and Architectural Traditions", lecture: The Rumpakis Family Lecture, Willamette University, Oregon, USA, 14 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Urban Culture in the Syrian Desert: New Research on Palmyra", University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA, 11 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra and the Third-Century ‘Crisis’ at Home", conference: Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third-Century Crisis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 March 2024. 

Rubina Raja, "Integrating Archaeology and Historiography in Resonant Self-World Relations: Palmyra and its Priests", University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 6 February 2024.

Rubina Raja, “Beyond Funerary Portrait Habits: Funerary Portraits from Palmyra and their Implications for Understanding Funerary Culture in Roman Syria and Egypt”, Conference: Material Culture in Late Antique Egypt and Syria. Contacts, Influence and Disparities, Nijmegen, Holland, 15 December 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Death by Data?: Or What Has a Decade of Research on Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture Taught Us about the Ancient World?", Conference: American Schools of Overseas Research - Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15 November 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Out of the Desert and into a Global Perspective: Palmyra in a longue durée Perspective (1st cent. BC to 8th cent. AD)", Seminar: The 2023/24 Prichett Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 6 November 2023.

Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja, "Women and Children and their Clothing Styles in Sacred Space: The Case of Palmyra", Workshop: Inside Out II: Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity. New Considerations and Further Research Perspectives, Hamburg, Germany, 23 June 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Dining with the deities. Religious banqueting and social interaction in Roman Palmyra", Seminar: Visiting Fellows Colloquium, All Souls College, Oxford, Great Britain, 2 May 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Inscribed funerary culture in Palmyra", Conference: Inscribed Funerary Spaces, i The Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts", Hamburg, Germany, 31 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Tiny evidence from a big city: The social and religious implications of the Palmyrene banqueting tesserae", Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 21 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra Undone: Reconstructing knowledge through archaeology and legacy data", Lecture: 9th Annual Rumble Fund Lecture, King's College, London, Great Britain, 9 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyre, cité grecque? Greek imports and other influences in (Roman?) Palmyra", University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain, 9 March 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Epigraphy in Palmyra: A short overview of 3000 plus inscriptions from the 1st century CE to the late 3rd century CE", Conference: Long Eigraphic Friday, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 4 March 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra: urban culture in the Syrian desert", All Souls College, Oxford, Great Britain, 23 February 2023. 

Rubina Raja, "Beyond Palmyra: After the Palmyra Portrait Project", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Reconsidering Palmyra’s History: The Ingholt Archive since the Palmyra Portrait Project", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Rubina Raja, "Post Palmyra Portrait Project: session introduction", Conference: Annual Meeting at Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 7 January 2023.

Iza Romanowska, Joan Campmany Jiménez, Katerína Mokránová & Rubina Raja, "Systematic Reconstruction of the Population Dynamics in Roman Palmyra Using Formal Computational Modelling Methods",Conference: Palmyra in Perspective, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 December 2022.

Rubina Raja, "Perspectives on Palmyra", Conference: Palmyra in Perspective, Royal Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 December 2022.

Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja & Julia Steding, "Using Legacy Data: Harald Ingholt's Archive and Excavation Diaries", Conference: Palmyra in Perspective, Royal Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 December 2022.

Jen Baird, Zena Kamash & Rubina Raja, "Bel in Perspective:" Selective Destructions, Selective Memories", Conference: Palmyra in Perspective, Royal Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 December 2022

Rubina Raja, "Revisiting the Palmyrene Pantheon: Methodological Consideration on the Many and the Few The Nature of the Evidence", Conference: What's in a divine name?, Maison de la recherche, Toulouse, France, 27 October 2022. 

Rubina Raja, "Multikulturalitet i en oaseby: sprog og kultur i Palmyra i den syriske ørken", Filologisk-Historisk Samfund, Søndre Campus, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 October 2022. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene networks: portrait traditions as reflection of inter-regional connections and exchange patterns", Workshop: Religious Networks in Antiquity, University of Bergen, Norway, 8 June 2022. 

Rubina Raja, "Staying at Home or Taking Away: Palmyrene Priestly Iconography as Expressions of Local Traditions", conference: Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future, Yale University, New Haven, USA, 1 April 2022.

Rubina Raja, "Dilemmas in Digital Humanities: Case Studies from Palmyra", University of California, Berkeley, Department of Classics and Art History, Berkeley, USA, 10 March 2022.

Rubina Raja & Julia Steding, "New Light on the Southwest Necropolis in Palmyra: The Excavation Diaries of Harald Ingholt", conference: Shaping Archaeological Archives: Best Practices for the Dissemination of Knowledge from Digital Resources, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus University, virtual lecture, 11 February 2022.

Rubina Raja, ""The Most Beautiful Female Portrait I Have Ever Seen" - Palmyrene Funerary Portraiture and Its Significance for the Study of Ancient Portrait Representations", Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, virtual lecture, March 25 2021.

Olympia Bobou, "Stars and signs in Palmyra", Conference: Measuring the World against the Body: Spring Conference of the IGS "Resonant Self-World Relations", virtual lecture, 25 February 2021.

Rubina Raja, "Abstraction of Religious Symbols and Objects in Sacred Architecture in the Roman Near East: The Role of Miniaturization", conference: Measuring the World against the Body: Spring Conference of the IGS "Resonant Self-World Relations", virtual lecture, 24 February 2021.​

Olympia Bobou, “Birds of Prey”, conference: Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies Joint Annual Meeting 2021, virtual event, January 10 2021.

Rubina Raja,“Portrait Representations on Attributes in the Palmyrene Funerary Sculpture”, conference: Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies Joint Annual Meeting 2021, virtual event, January 10 2021.

Rubina Raja & Maura Heyn, "Unusual Choices in Palmyrene funerary iconography. An Introduction.", conference: Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies Joint Annual Meeting 2021, virtual event, January 10 2021.   

Ditte K. Johnson, Nathalia Kristensen & Olympia Bobou, "Palmyra Potrait Project", conference: Faglig Dag, Department of Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 26 February 2020.  

Eivind Heldaas Seland, "Caravan trade in Palmyrene tesserae and coins?", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 21 June 2019. 

Rubina Raja, "Exploring the religious and social life of Palmyra through the banqueting tesserae", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 20 June 2019. 

Emanuele E. Intagliata, "Post-Roman coinage in Palmyra: Two notes on circulation and coin hoarding", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 20 June 2019. 

Michael Blömer, "Civic coins and urban networks: Palmyra and its coinage in a regional perspective", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 20 June 2019. 

Nathalia B. Kristensen, "The production, circulation and function of the local Palmyrene coinage", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 20 June 2019. 

Rubina Raja, "Welcome and introduction", conference: The Small Stuff of the Palmyrenes: The Coins and Tesserae of Palmyra, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Denmark, 20 June 2019.

Rubina Raja, "Urbanising the Palmyrene Desert in Antiquity: looking for climate change as a factor", workshop: Urbanising landscapes and traditions of change in Africa and beyond, Aarhus University, Denmark, 21 May 2019.  

Emanuele Intagliata, "The Fate of Palmyra and the East after Zenobia", conference: Palmyra and the East, Getty Villa, USA, 19 April 2019. 

Michael Blömer, "Edessa, Palmyra, and the Sculpture of Syro-Mesopotamia in the First Three Centuries AD", conference: Palmyra and the East, Getty Villa, USA, 19 April 2019. 

Rubina Raja, "Palmyran Art and the East", conference: Palmyra and the East, Getty Villa, USA, 18 April 2019.

Rubina Raja, "Representations of Palmyrene Priests and the structure of the religious life of Palmyra", seminar: Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College, USA, 22 February 2019.

Rubina Raja, "Alas! Commemoration of the dead in Palmyra", seminar: School of Historical Studies Seminar, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, USA, 21 February 2019.  

Julia Steding, ""Do it like that" - Challenges and limitations for Palmyrene carvers", lecture: UrbNet seminars, Aarhus University, Denmark, 19 February 2019.   

Rubina Raja, "Quantifying religion in Palmyra", seminar: After Hours, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, USA, 7 February 2019.  

Rubina Raja, "Harald Ingholt – Palmyra i Syrien", lecture series: Store danske arkæologer – på jagt efter fortidens byer, The Danish University Extension, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29 October 2018.

Rubina Raja, "From Palmyra to Rome - and back again: Palmyrene portraiture and their narratives", The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Rome, Italy, 25 October 2018.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyrene More-than-bust Funerary Portraits", conference: Stone Face, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 October 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Portraits and people. Self-representations in Roman period Palmyra", lecture series: Kershaw Lecture Series, USA, 21 September 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra and its portrait habit. The Palmyra Portrait Project",  lecture series: Kershaw Lecture Series, USA, 19 September 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene portraits. Self-representation and the portrait habit in Roman period Palmyra",  lecture series: Kershaw Lecture Series, USA, 17 September 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Portrait habit in Roman period Palmyra. The Palmyra Portrait Project", lecture series: Kershaw Lecture Series, USA, 13 September 2018.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA, 26 July 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Individualising Palmyrene priesthood through priestly attributes", Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 19 June 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Urbanising the desert and knowing the world - The case of Palmyra in Syria", Women's Informal Network (WIN), Rome, Italy, 8 June 2018. 

Rubina Raja, "Production processes: the relationship between the architecture and the funerary portraiture", conference: 19th international congress of classical archaeology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 23 May 2018. 

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project: an introduction to the project", conference: 19th international congress of classical archaeology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 23 May 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra: a network node at the centre or at the edge?", conference: Archéologie et histoire de l’Orient hellénistique et romain. Régions non-méditerranéennes: Éthiopie, Arabie, Mésopotamie, Iran,  Université Paris, Paris, France, 3 April 2018.        

Rubina Raja, "Investigating urban networks in the Roman Near East: lines of enquiry", conference: Archéologie et histoire de l’Orient hellénistique et romain. Régions non-méditerranéennes: Éthiopie, Arabie, Mésopotamie, Iran,  Université Paris, Paris, France, 27 March 2018. 

Rubina Raja & Jean-Baptiste Yon, "The Palmyra Portrait Project. Sculpture, Epigraphy and database", seminar: Epigraphic seminar,  Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Lyon, France, 27 March 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra und seine Kunst. Gratwanderungen zwischen Ost und West", conference: Palmyra. Orient. Okzident, Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany, 17 March 2018.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project. Visual representations from the funerary sphere in Palmyra", University of Groningen, Groningen, Holland, 5 February 2018.

Rubina Raja, "Karavanebyen Palmyra", lecture Series: Forsvundne Byer, The Danish University Extension, Aarhus, Denmark, 22 November 2017.

Signe Krag, "Palmyrene funerary portraits: First century BC to the third century AD", Archäologisches Kolloqium, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 7 November 2017.

Sara Ringsborg, "Status, age and gender in the Palmyrene funerary portraits of children", conference: ARACHNE VIII: Ages, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 25 October 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra: A network node at the centre or at the edge? A matter of perspective", lecture series: The Dynamics of Urban Networks in the Near East, 1st century CE-8th century CE, UrbNet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 9 October 2017.

Michael Blömer, "The production of local sculpture in Roman North Syria and the agency of stone material", conference: Production Economy in the region of wider Syria, Part I: Craftsmen and Production Techniques, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 October 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Production Economy - questions and lines of enquiry: The case of Palmyra", conference: Production Economy in the region of wider Syria, Part I: Craftsmen and Production Techniques, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 October 2017.

Julia Steding, "Production and value of Palmyrene funerary portraiture", conference: Production Economy in the region of wider Syria, Part I: Craftsmen and Production Techniques, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 October 2017.

Rubina Raja, "The so-called 'curtain of death' in the Palmyrene funerary sculpture", conference: Revisiting the Religious life of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 September 2017.

Signe Krag, "Women and Religion in Palmyra", conference: Revisiting the Religious life of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 September 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Introduction", conference: Revisiting the Religious life of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 September 2017.  

Signe Krag, "Female funerary portraiture from Palmyra, Syria", conference: Funerary Portraiture in Greater Roman Syria, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 June 2017.

Rubina Raja & Michael Blömer, "Shifting the paradigms: Research on the funerary portraiture of Greater Roman Syria", conference: Funerary Portraiture in Greater Roman Syria, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 June 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Public and funerary portraiture in Palmyra: portrait habits at a crossroad”, conference: Funerary portraiture in Greater Roman Syria, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 June 2017.

Luise Ø. Brandt, "The colours of Palmyra: Ancient polychromy and the application of new natural-scientific methods", Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 11 June 2017.

Signe Krag, "Portraying Palmyrene Women: First century BC to third century AD", Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 11 May 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Karavanebyen Palmyra", lecture Series: Forsvundne Byer, The Danish University Extension, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 May 2017.

Julia Steding, "Money, money, money: Production and value of Palmyrene portraits", lecture series: The Palmyra Portrait Project, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 May 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Negotiating social and cultural interaction through priesthoods: The iconography of priesthood in Palmyra", conference: The Middle East as Middle Ground, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 27 April 2017.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyrene Funerary Portraits: A Portrait Habit between East and West", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 26 April 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Life in Palmyra. Life for Palmyra", University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.

Michael Blömer, "Depicting the dead in North Syria: Funerary representations in Roman Commagene and Cyrrhestice", lecture series: The Palmyra Portrait Project, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 4 April 2017.

Rubina Raja, "RUIN", Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 March 2017.

Sara Ringsborg, "Children in Palmyrene funerary epigraphy", lecture series: The Palmyra Portrait Project, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 7 March 2017.

Rubina Raja, "It stays in the family: Palmyrene priests and their iconography", conference:  Representations of Women and Children in Roman-Period Palmyra: Part II, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 6 February 2017.

Signe Krag, "Potrayal of women in Palmyrene sarcophagi and banquet reliefs", conference: 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Funerary sculpture in Palmyra: The Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene priests: Positions or professions?", conference: 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017.

Rubina Raja, "The function of attributes in Palmyrene portraiture", conference: 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017.

Rubina Raja, "New archaeological research in ancient Gerasa (Jerash): The Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project", 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017.

Sara Ringsborg, "Representations of children in Palmyrene funerary sculpture from the first to the third century CE", conference: 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 January 2017

Signe Krag, "Funerary buildings and Portaiture in Roman Period Palmyra", conference: Porträt als Massenphänomen, Universität zu Köln, Morphomata and École Pratique des Hautes Études, Germany, 18 November 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Conflict archaeology and preserving cultural heritage: The case of the funerary portraits from Palmyra", Classics, University of Texas Austin, Austin, USA, 28 October 2016.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project: Preserving Cultural Heritage in a Time of Conflict",  J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa, Los Angeles, USA, 22 October 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene funerary portraits. A Roman period portrait habit", Department of History of Art, Berkeley University, California, USA, 20 October 2016.

Signe Krag, "Palmyrene funerary buildings and family burial patterns", conference: Representations of Women and Children in Roman Period Palmyra, Part I, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 October 2016.

Sara Ringsborg, "Palmyrene funerary representations of children in family constellations", conference: Representations of Women and Children in Roman Period Palmyra, Part I, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 October 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Vidensbrunch om Palmyra", Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark, 28 September 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Arkæologisk forskning i Krisezoner: AU’s klassisk arkæologiske forskningsprojekter i Mellemøsten", Det lærde Selskab, Aarhus, Denmark, 27 September 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra i den syriske ørken", Ældresagen, Aarhus, Denmark, 26 September 2016.

Sara Ringsborg, "Palmyra og Palmyra Portræt Projektet", Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 September 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra in the Syrian Desert: or why basic research matters", Alto Adige, Olang, Italy, 13 September 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene funerary portraits: Diversity and uniformity in a portrait habit in the Roman Near East", Würzburg Universität, Würzburg, Germany, 28 June 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene Funerary Portraiture: Individualisation and Group Identity", seminar: Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 23 May 2016.

Sara Ringsborg, "Børneportrætter fra Palmyra", lecture series: The Palmyra Portrait Project lecture series, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 May 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Life in Palmyra. Life for Palmyra", University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 22 April 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra, Archaeology, History, the Danish connection and the current situation", Danish University Extension, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 April 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrenske portrætter mellem krig og kunstmarked", seminar: Gammel Testamente Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 April 2016.

Signe Krag, "Kvinder og Børn i Palmyrensk Gravskulptur", lecture series: The Palmyra Portrait Project lecture series, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 March 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra. History and Heritage of a Lost and Found City", seminar: Palmyra. History and Heritage of a Lost and Found City, Visby, Sweden, 16 February 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Le Tombeau des trois freres à Palmyre", École normale supérieure, Paris, France, 3 February 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: Danish archaeology in a globalised and politicised world, Carlsberg Akademi, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 January 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Untold Palmyrene stories. Unraveling Palmyrene funerary portraits", Stockholm, Sweden, 14 January 2016.

Rubina Raja, "Reading religious identity through material culture: the case of the banqueting tesserae in Palmyra", conference: ANARCHIE - doctorate school, Halle, Germany, 11 December 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyras banketbilletter: religiøse grupper og ritual kultur i en oaseby", lecture series: Palmyra Portræt Projektets Forelæsningsrække, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 December 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Performing priesthood in Palmyra: the funerary portraits", workshop: Positions and Professions in Palmyra: Part Two: Professions, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 25 November 2014.

Signe Krag, "The Use of Jewelry in Palmyrene Female Portraits", workshop: Positions and Professions in Palmyra: Part One: Positions, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 September, 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Zukunftsvisionen im Grab. Grabporträts und Gesellschaft in Palmyra", lecture series: Excellenz-cluster Religion und Politik, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany, 4 November 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Romanizing Palmyra", EAA, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-14 September 2014.

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project – aims and visions", conference: Hatra, Palmyra, Edessa, Oxford, Great Britain, 14-17 July, 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Priestly representation in Palmyra", Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 27 May 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Dressing up for religious action: priestly dress in Palmyra", seminar: Roman Dress in the Context of Palmyra, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 May 2014. 

Annette H. Sørensen, "Achilles’ new clothes – wall paintings as expressions of dress culture in Palmyra", seminar: Roman Dress in the Context of Palmyra, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 May 2014. 

Signe Krag, "Textiles and Drapery in Palmyrene Female Portraits", seminar: Roman Dress in the Context of Palmyra, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 May 2014.

Tracey Long, "Parthian robes as the costume of choice in the Palmyrene funerary portraits", seminar: Roman Dress in the context of Palmyra, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 May 2014.

Signe Krag, "Females in Palmyra", lecture series: Palmyra Portræt Projektets Forelæsningsrække, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 8 April 2014.

Signe Krag, "Does Space Matter?", workshop: Exploring Methods in Ancient Visual Culture Studies, KAHN, Kiel, Germany, 21-22 March 2014.

Tracey Long, "Origins and influences of female portrait sculpture in early imperial Aphrodisias", workshop: Local Traditions in Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Near East, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 13 March 2014. 

Signe Krag, "Cultural traditions in Palmyrene female portraiture", workshop: Local Traditions in Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Near East, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 13 March 2014. 

Rubina Raja, "Funerary portraits in Palmyra between local identities and imperial trends", workshop: Local Traditions in Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Near East, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 13 March 2014.  

Tracey Long, "The iconography of the portraits", seminar: Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Period. Local Trends and Global Blends, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 February 2014.

Annette H. Sørensen, "Palmyrene tomb paintings", seminar: Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Period. Local Trends and Global Blends, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 February 2014.  

Signe Krag, "Female portraiture in Palmyra", seminar: Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Period. Local Trends and Global Blends, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 February 2014. 

Rubina Raja, "Introduction, Portraits in Context", seminar: Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Period. Local Trends and Global Blends, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 February 2014. 

Rubina Raja, "The Palmyra Portrait Project – visions and aims", seminar: Portrait Sculpture in the Roman Period. Local Trends and Global Blends, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 February 2014.

Tracey Long, "What constitutes a Portrait in the Ancient World?" Lecture series: Palmyra Portræt Projektets Foredragsrække, Aarhus, Denmark, 4 February 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrenische Porträts im Kontext: 'Portrait Habit' an der Pheripherie des Imperium Romanum", Jena, Germany, 25 January 2014.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrenische Porträts im Kontext: 'Portrait Habit' an der Peripherie des Imperium Romanum", Winckelmann Institute, Maximilian's University, Munich, Germany, 13 January 2014.

Annette H. Sørensen, "Palmyrene Tomb Paintings - Contexts and interpretations", conference: The World of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16-18, 2013.   

Signe Krag, "Females in group portraiture in Palmyra: A case study of content and meaning", conference: The World of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16-18, 2013.  

Rubina Raja & Jean-Baptiste Yon, "Inscriptions from the necropoleis of Palmyra in the diaries of H. Ingholt", conference: The World of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16-18 2013.   

Rubina Raja & Andreas Kropp, "The Palmyra Portrait Project: aims and visions", conference: The World of Palmyra, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16-18 2013.

Annette H. Sørensen, "Vægmalerier fra grave i Palmyra", Lecture series: Palmyra Portræt Projektets foredragsrække, Aarhus, 19 November 2013.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene Portraits in Context. Portrait Habit in the periphery of the Roman Empire", conference: New Research in Classical Archaeology, the German Archaeological institute Rome, Italy, September 26, 2013.

Signe Krag, "The Secrets of Funerary Buildings in Roman Palmyra", seminar: Secrecy Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, September 6, 2013.

Rubina Raja & Andreas Kropp, "Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: CIAC XVIII Congreso Internacional Arqueología Clásica, Mérida, Spain, 16 May 2013.

Annette H. Sørensen, "Wall paintings in Palmyrene tombs", conference: CIAC XVIII Congreso Internacional Arqueología Clásica, Mérida, Spain, 16 May 2013.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrenske portrætter i kontekst: portrætvane i den romerske verdens periferi", Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1 March 2013.

Signe Krag, "Kvinder i Grav og By", University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 February 2013.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrenische Porträts im Kontext: Portrait Habit an der Pheripherie des Imperium Romanum", Jena, Germany, 25 January 2013.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra Portræt Projektet", meeting: Carlbergfondets årsmøde, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 January 2013.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyra Portræt Projektet: Portrætter mellem tradition og innovation", seminar: traditionsseminar, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 November 2012.

Rubina Raja, "Feasting with the dead: Lived religion in Palmyra", conference: Ends and Beginnings, EASR, Stockholm, Sweden, 23-26 August 2012.

Rubina Raja, "Palmyrene Funerary Portraiture: Individualisation or collectivity", seminar: Locating the Individual in Roman Funerary Culture: Patronage, Consumption and Agency, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark & Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-11 May 2012. 

Rubina Raja, "Banqueting with the dead and divinised: Banqueting tesserae from Palmyra", Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 11 November 2011.

Rubina Raja, "Exclusive clubs? Private religious associations in Palmyra", conference: Private Associations and the Public Sphere, Royal Academy of Letters and Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-11 November 2011.

Rubina Raja, "Out of the desert? Cult topography in Palmyra", conference: Verlegung und Übernahme von Kultorte, Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Münster, Germany, 5-6 November 2011.

Rubina Raja, "Exclusive clubs? Private religious associations in the Roman Near East between the public and the private sphere. Examples from Palmyra", AEK, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, Germany, 4 February 2011.