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Representations, Discourses, Materialities, and Uses of the Past

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Violeta d'Aguiar is a PhD candidate in Ancient History, with a full scholarship, and is developing her project under a co-tutorship agreement between CHAM - Centre for the Humanities at the NOVA University of Lisbon and EPHE-PSL - École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Paris. She is currently working on her thesis under the tutelage of Professor Francisco Caramelo in Portugal and Professor Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault in France. She has a master's degree in History (specialisation in Civilisations of the Middle East and Ancient Asia) from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) of the NOVA University of Lisbon and a degree in History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
Her doctoral research focuses on the power and action of female figures in the courts of Assyria and Babylonia in the first millennium before the current era. Her project is based on a comparative analysis of documents which allow us to reconstruct the activities of female royalty, as well as literary and mythological texts featuring goddesses. The aim is to understand how these feminine figures were portrayed by analysing documents in Akkadian cuneiform.

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