The BeFRAIL webinars, “Porto in Times of Cholera and War: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Human Fragility”, present and contextualize the study of epidemics and diseases through the evaluation of human remains and their contexts. The BeFRAIL project aims at a holistic and transdisciplinary approach to human frailty in the past through the evaluation of an archaeological site associated with the III Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Porto (Portugal), in use between 1801 and 1869: years of cholera and war.

 

The programme includes:

1. Dr Charlotte Primeau (14.03.2024 – 15:00 GMT) – ‘The use of radiographic imaging in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology.’
2. Dr Sandra Assis (04.04.2024 – 15:00 GMT) – ‘Bones and diseases: contributions and challenges of paleohistopathology for the study of past human conditions.’
3. Dr Nicholas Márquez-Grant (12.04.2024 – 16:00 GMT) – ‘Taphonomy: What happens to the body after death?’
4. Prof Amanda Wissler (16.04.2024 – 16:00 GMT) – ‘Socio-demographic causes of frailty in the 1918 flu pandemic.’
5. Dr Eline Schotsmans (24.04.2024 – 12:00 GMT) – ‘The use of lime as a disinfectant during epidemics.’
6. 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.’
7. Prof Sharon DeWitte (17.05.2024 – 18:00 GMT) – ‘Stress, sex, and death: health and survival in the context of medieval famine and plague.’
8. Dr Olalla López-Costas (24.05.2024 – 15:00 GMT) – ‘Food on the move: bioarchaeology of diet and mobility.’

 

Registrations: HERE

 

 

 

Contact: BeFRAIL@fcsh.unl.pt 

More information on the project: HERE