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A joint international conference between the Lost Cities Rediscovered: Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia’ (LoCi) project, and the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, took place between 2 and 3 October 2026 at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters,…

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…

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…

The international conference 'Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: archaeological ‘archives’ and their historiographies' (hosted by Rubina Raja at the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, May 15-16) explored how viewing materials generated by archaeological projects as ‘archives’…

New affiliated postdoc at UrbNet.

Today marks the launch of the international research project ‘Lost Cities Rediscovered: Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia’ (LoCi), funded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.