Papers Presented in International Conferences

1.Ideology and Landscape: Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem as a case study of Place, Concept and Ideology. A paper presented at: The Seventh International Conference of Historical Geography, Jerusalem, July 1989.

2.Original Maps and their Copies, Carto-genealogy of Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem. A paper presented at: The 14th International Conference on the History of Cartography. Uppsala and Stockholm, June 1991.

3.Roman Byzantine Colonization of Desert Frontiers: a Cultural Crossroads.  A paper presented at: The Eighth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Vancouver, Summer 1992.

4.Priests, Soldiers, and Administrators: The Role of Institutions in the Settlement of the Negev Desert in the Byzantine Period. A paper presented at: The Role of Institutions in the Development and change of Landscape, Cambridge April 1995.

5. Did the Climate Change? An Historical Geographer's view on the Negev during the Byzantine Period. A paper presented at: International Conference on Geomorphic Response of Mediterranean and Arid Areas to Climate Change, Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan, May 1995.

6. The de Pierre Map of Jerusalem, 1728. A paper presented at: the 16th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Vienna, September 1996.

7. Representation of Self and Others: Three Versions of a Pilgrimage Map of the Holy City Jerusalem. A paper presented at: The Tenth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Northern Ireland, July 1998.

8.18th Century Greek Orthodox Images of the Holy City and its Environs. A paper presented at: the 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Athens, July 1999.

9.Greek and Syriac Anchorites in the Laura of St. Firmin, A paper presented at the ARAM 16th International Conference: Palestine Christianity 500-1000 A.D., Oxford, July 2001.

10.Oral History and Historical Geography: the case of the Village of Abu-Gosh (Israel), A paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), London, September 2003.

11.Why travel to Palestine? A Model of Jerusalem in the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition, A paper presented at the 44th Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, New Orleans, October 2003.

12.The map has a Message: Reality, Ideology and Symbolism in the Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem. A Paper presented at: The Idea of Jerusalem Symposium, Middlebury College, Vermont, April 2005.

13.Stephan Illes and his 3D map of Jerusalem, A paper presented at the ICHC 2005 in Budapest, July 2005.

14.Non Russian Evidence to Russian Pilgrimage in 19th Century Palestine, A paper presented at the Conference “Jerusalem in the Russian Spiritual Tradition”, Jerusalem, November 1-2 2005.

15.Orthodox Pilgrimage Itineraries from the 16th-18th centuries, A paper presented at the Conference “In the Wake of Pilgrims to the Holy Land”, Jerusalem, December 2005.

16.Through the Windows of the Time Machine: Judaean Hills as an Historical Cultural Landscape, A paper presented at the 13th International Conference of Historical Geography, Hamburg, August 2006.

17.Between Cyprus and Jerusalem: A Cypriote 18th century Orthodox Icon, The IV International Cyprological Congress, Nicosia, May 2008

18.Mapping a Myth: The Cartographic Image of the Overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah, a paper presented in the International Conference on History of Cartography, Copenhagen, July 2009

19.An Unknown Franciscan’s Map of Jerusalem and its Transformations (1687 - 1728), a paper presented in Travelers, Pilgrims and Testimonies, Neve Shalom, November 2009, pp. 101-118 (Italian and English).

20.Quaresmius Novae Ierosolymae (1639) – A Realistic Image of the Holy City, a paper presented in the International Conference the 'Visual Constructs of Jerusalem', Jerusalem, November 2010

21.Notes for the Study of 19th Century Maps of Palestine/ Israel/ Holy Land, a paper presented in the International Workshop: Robinson, van de Velde, and German Holy Land Cartography in the mid‐19th century, Tel-Hai, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, May 1–7, 2012

22.Hebrew copies of German maps - Cartography as a mirror to cross cultural relations, a paper presented in the International Workshop: Robinson, van de Velde, and German Holy Land Cartography in the mid‐19th century, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Tel‐Hai College & Research Library Gotha, Gotha, September 10–12, 2013

23.The rise and the decline of desert agriculture in southern Israel in late antiquity: Human achievement or climatic change, World Conference on Environmental History Guimarães, Portugal, July 2014

24.Proskynetarion - Two Groups of Jerusalemite Pilgrimage Souvenirs, presented in: ‘Remembering Jerusalem: Imagination, Memory, and the City’, London, 6-7 November 2014

25.Digital Accessibility to Early Topographical Maps and Geo-referenced Air photographs of Israel, presented in: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Corfu, May 2015

26.The Orthodox Pilgrimage Route in the Holy Land (17th-18th centuries), Presented in: London ICHG July 2015

27.Relief Maps and Models in the Archives of  the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, presented in: PEF and the Early Exploration of the Holy Land, December 20-21, 2015, University of Haifa

28.The many faces of water collecting installations in southern Israel in late antiquity: Cultural influence and environmental adaptability, Workshop III: “Traditional Watershed Management” Berlin, April 2016

29.Jerusalem as reflected in maps, A paper presented in “Jerusalem in media imaginations” conference, Mainz, February 2017

30.How the Franciscans Chose to Portray Jerusalem, Milka Levy-Rubin and Rehav (Buni) Rubin, Paper presented at the conference on the Art and Archaeology of the Mendicant Orders in the Latin East, Nafplion, April 2017