Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Inês Coutinho Dinis Torres
Citation names
- Torres, Inês
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9914-070D-5BF7
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8201-3627
Email addresses
- inestorres@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://unl-pt.academia.edu/InêsTorres (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Arab | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
Dutch | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Italian | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | |
Japanese | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2022/09/01 - 2025/09/01
Ongoing
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2021/05
Concluded
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Egyptology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, United States
"The Monumentality of Mastabas: Identity, Memory, and Experience in the Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut at Giza (Fifth Dynasty, c.
2494-2345 BCE)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2017/01 - 2017/03
Concluded
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Cairo Semester Egyptological Program (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universiteit Leiden Nederlands-Vlaamse Instituut in Cairo, Egypt
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2014/07
Concluded
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Egyptology (Master)
University of Oxford Saint Cross College, United Kingdom
"Funerary Stratigraphy in Tutankhamun’s Tomb: The Burial Chamber and the Treasury" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012/10
Concluded
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Archaeology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Os Trabalhadores do Além: As Estatuetas Funerárias Egípcias da Reserva do Museu Nacional de Arqueologia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/04 - Current | Researcher (Research) | CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
2020/10 - 2021/04 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, United States |
2019/10 - 2020/10 | Researcher (Research) | American Research Center in Egypt, United States |
2015/09 - 2019/05 | Researcher (Research) | Digital Giza at Harvard University, United States |
2017/03 - 2017/07 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Freie Universität Berlin Dahlem Humanities Center, Germany |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017 - 2020 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/01/29 - 2024/05/27 | Maternity Leave | CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2022/01 - 2022/01 | Archaeologist and Photographer | Johns Hopkins Mut Temple Expedition, Egypt |
Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, United States | ||
2019/09 - 2020/05 | Graduate Student Intern (Division of Academic and Public Programs) | Harvard Art Museums, United States |
2018/06 - 2018/08 | Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptian Art | Museum of Fine Arts Boston, United States |
2017/04 - 2017/07 | Graduate Student Researcher | Neues Museum, Germany |
2016/01 - 2016/05 | Assistant Instructor, Lecturer, and Developer of the EdX course Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology | HarvardX, United States |
2011/08 - 2011/09 | Archaeology Student, site of Fraga dos Corvos, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança, Portugal | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal | ||
2010/06 - 2010/07 | Archaeology Student, site of Casas Novas, Coruche, Santarém, Portugal | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal | ||
2009/10 - 2010/05 | Student Researcher | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal | ||
2008/07 - 2008/07 | Participant in the excavation of Castro de São Lourenço, Vila Chã, Esposende, Portugal | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023 - 2025 | ANTIGA MENTE: Death, Memory, and Cognition in Ancient Egypt in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Principal investigator
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades
Ongoing
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2023/12 - 2024/12 | The Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut Documentation Project
N/A
Principal investigator
American Research Center in Egypt, United States
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American Research Center in Egypt
Ongoing
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2019 - Current | Egiptologias Luso-Brasileiras: Contribuições para uma Discussão Global (Luso-Brazilian Egyptologies: Contributions to a Global
Discussion)
NON-FUNDED
Co-Primary Investigator
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Edited book |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Online resource |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Website |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/04 | Returning to G 2184: The First Season of the Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut Documentation Project (MAD-P) | American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) (Pittsburgh, PA, United States)
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2024/01 | Three Egyptologists Walk into a Bar… and Talk about Books, Movies, and Shows. Engaging with Audiences through Pop Culture | Egypopcult: Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/11 | Social Interactions in the Funerary Space. Tomb and Remembrance in Egypt in the 3rd Millennium BCE |
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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2023/11 | Um dia no Antigo Egipto |
Colégio da Via-Sacra (Viseu, Portugal)
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2023/10 | Building and Experiencing Sacred Space in the Tomb of Ankhtify |
American Research Center in Egypt - Washington DC Chapter (United States)
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2023/08 | Models as Miniatures. Ancient Egyptian Funerary Models Reconsidered | XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists: The Future of Ancient Egypt
Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
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2023/08 | Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar: Disseminating Egyptological Scholarship in Portuguese | XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists: The Future of Ancient Egypt
Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
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2023/05 | Uma Arqueologia da Memória no Antigo Egipto | II Jornadas de Arqueologia da FLUL
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/05 | O Quotidiano no Antigo Egipto |
Tertúlia Cais das Culturas (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/04 | O Antigo Egipto no Mundo Moderno. Uma apresentação ao livro Como é que a Esfinge perdeu o nariz? E outras curiosidades sobre o Antigo Egito. | Semana da Leitura
Agrupamento de Escolas de Arga e Lima, Lanheses e Viana do Castelo (Online, Portugal)
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2023/02 | Interactive Space: Experiencing Tombs in Ancient Egypt | International Symposium: Construction of Contemporary Imaginaries. Spaces, Times and Cultures
CIAUD – Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/02 | Tutankhamun's Miniatures: The Power of Small-Scale Objects in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Customs | Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the Impact of a Major Archaeological Find
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/11 | Memory in the "House of Eternity:" Tomb Design and Remembrance in Egypt in the 3rd Millennium BCE | ASOR Annual Meeting
American School of Overseas Research (ASOR) (Boston, United States)
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2022/10 | O "Outro" como garantia de imortalidade: a simbiose túmulo-visitante no pensamento funerário-religioso do Antigo Egipto | Colóquio Olhares Cruzados: Construções do Outro nas Religiões do Mundo Antigo
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022/10 | O Antigo Egipto no Mundo Moderno: 200 anos de Egiptologia(?) |
Centro de Ciência Viva de Lagos (Lagos, Portugal)
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2022/09 | Egiptologias em Contextos Lusófonos: Aproximações Metodológicas e Teóricas às Práticas Egiptológicas em Língua Portuguesa | VII Congresso Iberoamericano de Egiptologia
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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2022/09 | Reclaiming Our Place at the Table: Centering Portuguese-speaking Scholarship in the World of Egyptology | Current Research in Egyptology
Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France)
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2022/06 | Crafting Memories: Tomb Design and Public Engagement | 8th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology International Conference
University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain)
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2022/06 | Como é escavar no Egipto? Passado(s) e presente(s) da arqueologia egípcia | Ancient History Research Group
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
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2022/05 | House of Eternity: Building and Experiencing Funerary Space in Ancient Egypt | Mediterranean Studies Association Annual Meeting
Nova University Lisbon (NOVA-FCSH) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/03 | Agência, Memória e Cultura Material no Antigo Egipto | Graduate Students’ Forum, CHAM/NOVA-FCSH
Nova University Lisbon (NOVA-FCSH) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/10 | Túmulo e Memória no Antigo Egipto |
Sociedade Portuguesa de Antropologia e Etnologia (Porto, Portugal)
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2021/09 | Modelos em Miniatura: Novas Perspectivas sobre os Modelos Funerários do Antigo Egipto | I Congresso Ibero-americano de Jovens Investigadores em Egiptologia (CIJIE)
Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
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2021/07 | As Aparências Iludem: Desafios na Tradução e Interpretação de Textos Hieroglíficos | Ciclo de Conferências de Egípcio Médio
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
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2021/04 | Monumentalidade e Memória no Império Antigo (ca. 2686-2160 a.C.) | Cicle de Conferências de Egiptologia
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2021/03 | Lassoing for Offerings or Lassoing for Visitors? Analyzing a Unique Lassoing Scene from the Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut at Giza |
Huis van Horus (Netherlands)
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2020/12 | Between Giza and Boston: The Unique Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut |
The Lotus Society, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States)
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2020/06 | Creativity and Innovation in Non-Royal Tombs of the Old Kingdom: The Mastaba of Akhmeretnisut at Giza | American Research Center in Egypt Virtual Chapter Lecture Series
The American Research Center in Egypt (United States)
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2020/04 | A Unique Lassoing Scene from the Mastaba of Akhmeretnisut at Giza | American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting
University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
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2017/02 | Nubians in Egypt: The First Intermediate Period Stelae from Gebelein | Graduate Annual Research Discussions on Egypt and Nubia (GARDEN)
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo (DAIK) (Cairo, Egypt)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09 - Current | Co-organizer of the CHAM Researchers’ Forum (2023/09)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2022/09 - 2023/07 | Member of the Organizing Committee of the VI CHAM Conference: Heritage for a Common Future/Futures for a Common Heritage,
12-15 July 2023, Lisbon, Portugal (2023/07/12 - 2023/07/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2019/03 - 2019/03 | Explore an Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Festival
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The Amazing Archaeology Fair
The Harvard Semitic Museum, United States
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023/02 | Committee Member of MA Dissertation in Archaeology, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal: "The Archaeological
Site of Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta) and the Role of Copper in the Early Egyptian Economy during the 4th Millennium
BC."
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Adriana Catarina Gomes de Jesus (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2023/01 | Committee Member of PhD Dissertation in History: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: "O desenvolvimento
da literatura lírico-amorosa no Egito antigo: individualidade, gênero e religiosidade no período Raméssida (XIX-XX Dinastias,
1295-1069 a. C.)."
(Thesis) Arguer
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Alessandra Pinto Antunes do Vale (PhD)
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023 - Current | Journal of Egyptian Archaeology | Sage |
2022 - Current | História Hoje (1806-3993) | Associação Nacional de História - ANPUH - Brasil |
2022 - 2022 | Cadmo. Journal for Ancient History (0871-9527) | Center for History of the University of Lisbon, Portugal |
2020 - 2022 | Mare Nostrum. Estudos sobre o Mediterrâneo Antigo (2177-4218) | University of São Paulo, Brazil |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022/09/29 - Current | Member of the Permanent Committee of the Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) Annual Conference
Member
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2023/09 - 2024/09 | Chair of the Permanent Committee of the Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) Annual Conference.
President / Vice-president
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Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2023/11 - 2023/11 | Egypopcult: Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa |
2022 - 2023 | Congresso Iberoamericano de Jovens Egiptólogos (CIJIE) |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/01 - 2033/01 | Viver e Morrer no Antigo Egipto (Living and Dying in Ancient Egypt) | (Outros) | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
2023 - 2024 | UC Reis e Deuses | (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/15 | Curso de Introdução ao Egípcio Hieroglífico, Escola de Verão NOVA-FCSH | (Outros) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2020/10 - 2020/10 | Guest Lecturer for the course EGPT 3201: Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt | Egyptology (Master) | The American University in Cairo, Egypt |
2020/03 - 2020/03 | Guest Lecturer for the course Mothers, Diviners, and Prophets: The Religious Lives of Women in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel | Harvard Divinity School, United States |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2023/04 | Uma atriz negra a interpretar Cleópatra está a causar polémica. Mas "é mais provável que se parecesse com ela do que Elizabeth Taylor" | CNN Portugal |
2022/07 | Semanário Sol | Semanário Sol |
2022/07 | Revista Domingo, Correio da Manhã | Revista Domingo, Correio da Manhã |
2022/07 | Jornal Público | Jornal Público |
2022/07 | Revista Sábado | Revista Sábado |
2021/02 | Arqueólog@s Pelo Mundo | UNIARQ Digital: Boletim do Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa |
2020/01 | Entrevista ao Barcelos Popular | Barcelos Popular |
2019/11 | Barcelences Inspiradores | Barcelos na Hora |
2019/05 | Barcelos Popular | Barcelos Popular |
2019/02 | FLUL Alumni Pelo Mundo | FLUL Alumni |
2018/05 | Barcelos Popular | Barcelos Popular |
2018/05 | Uma egiptóloga portuguesa a ensinar em Harvard? Sim, é a Inês | P3, Jornal Público |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2024/07 - Current | Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) Crewing the Ship: Port Ancient Highlight | Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar |
2022/10 - 2022/10 | Podcast O Melhor de Portugal | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Expedition Unknown, Discovery Channel | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Esta Manhã, TVI | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | A Nossa Tarde, RTP 1 | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Convidado Extra, Rádio Observador | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Prova Oral, Antena 3 | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Manhãs da 3, Antena 3 | |
2022/07 - 2022/07 | Manhã Manhã, Rádio Renascença | |
2022/05 - 2022/05 | A Minha Geração, Antena 3/RTP 3 | |
2022/02/15 - 2022/02/15 | Sociedade Civil | Cleopatra and Marc Anthony |
2021/06 - 2021/06 | Podcast Teta de Sócrates | |
2019/06 - 2019/06 | Podcast 45 Graus | |
2018/08 - 2018/08 | Rádio Barcelos |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2021 | Special Commendation: Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
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2019 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
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2018 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
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2017 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
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