The BeFRAIL webinar series aims to introduce and contextualise research related to the study of epidemics and diseases through the assessment of human remains and their contexts. The BeFRAIL project aims towards an holistic transdisciplinary approach to human frailty in the past via the assessment of an archaeological site related to the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo in Porto (Portugal), in use between 1801 to 1869: years of cholera and war. The series comprises 7 sessions with the first, ‘The use of radiographic imaging in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology’, taking place on the March 14th, at 3p.m., Lisbon time.

Next sessions:

• Sandra Assis (04.04.2024 - 15:00 GMT) - ‘Bones and diseases: contributions and challenges of paleohistopathology for the study of past human conditions.’
• Nicholas Márquez-Grant (12.04.2024 - 16:00 GMT) - ‘Taphonomy: What happens to the body after death?’
• Prof Amanda Wissler (16.04.2024 - 16:00 GMT) - ‘Socio-demographic causes of frailty in the 1918 flu pandemic.’
• Dr Eline Schotsmans (24.04.2024 - 12:00 GMT) - ‘The use of lime as a disinfectant during epidemics.’
• Prof Alexandra Esteves (10.05.2024 - 15:00 GMT) - ‘Diseases and epidemic outbreaks in Portugal in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.’
• Prof Sharon DeWitte (17.05.2024 - 18:00 GMT) - ‘Stress, sex, and death: health and survival in the context of medieval famine and plague.’
• Dr Olalla López-Costas (24.05.2024 - 15:00 GMT) - ‘Food on the move: bioarchaeology of diet and mobility.’