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. 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. 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. 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