BeFRAIL webinar series 2025 programme

Submitted 17/03/2025 by Steffi Vassallo

The BeFRAIL project is happy to announce that the second BeFRAIL webinar series will be taking place between April and June 2025. The webinars will focus on topics around ethical considerations and social impacts within bioarchaeology and biological anthropology. They are open to all and are free to attend, with tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/befrail-webinar-series-2025-tickets-1280685347349?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Programme:
1. Linda Melo – "Reflections on ethical issues in the study of human bones" – 15.04.2025, 11:00 WEST
2. Rachael Carew – "Ethics Around the Creation and Use of 3D Printed Human Remains: Toward the Ethical Use of Technology in Forensic Anthropology" – 23.04.2025, 12:00 WEST.
3. Kirsty Squires – "A different way of thinking: ethical approaches to taphonomically altered human remains" – 29.04.2025, 12:00 WEST.
4. Monika Milosavljević – "Fundamentals of Archaeological Evidence and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity: From Misconceptions to Improving Methodological Omnivorism" – 09.05.2025, 12:00 WEST.
5. Pamela L. Geller – "Biopolitics, Burials and the Bioethics of Care" – 14.05.2025, 14:00 WEST
6. Sara Næss Elleskov & Sadie Tremblay – S. Næss Elleskov: "Confronting the Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of Bioarchaeological Research in Kalaallit Nunaat"; S. Tremblay: "Miyeu wiichayhtoowuk as Decolonial Research Practice: Modelling Ancestry and Biological Affinities Relationally" – 20.05.2025, 15:00 WEST.
7. Damien Huffer – "Human Remains as ‘Conflict Antiquities’ and How Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Can Change the Narrative" – 27.05.2025, 10:00 WEST.
8. Chris Stantis – "Ethical and Responsible Data Stewardship in Bioarchaeology" – 04.06.2025, 14:00 WEST.
9. Angela Silva Bessa in collaboration with Hugo F. V. Cardoso & Vanessa Campanacho – A. Silva Bessa: “Ethics in bioarchaeology and forensics: Reflections on the scientific value of human skeletal material”; V. Campanacho: “Exploring Digital Ethics and Public Opinion on the Display of Human Ancestors on YouTube” – 11.06.2025, 16:00 WEST.
10. Anna Freed, Isobel Grimley & Amy Brooks-Cole – A. Freed: "Disabled Peoples’ Perspectives on Bioarchaeologies of Disability and Care"; I. Grimley: “Dying before their time: Ethical implications of applying the concept of frailty to non-adult skeletal remains”, A. Brooks-Cole: “ A Novel Approach to Analysing Decapitation: The Use of Trauma Analysis for Understanding the Socio-political Context at the Roman Site of Grain” 17.06.2025, 12:00 WEST.

The organising committee
Anne Malcherek
Steffi Vassallo
Zélia Rodrigues
Carlos Eduardo Milho Moreira
Francisca Alves Cardoso

Steffi Vassallo

BeFRAIL@fcsh.unl.pt

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