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DESCRIPTION:Zoë Crossland will\npresent at the Archeological Encounters Sem
 inar on Tuesday\, October 30\, at 6\npm. Her talk is entitled “Afterlives:
  The Living Signs of the Forensic Dead\nBody.”\n\nForensic investigation s
 hares archaeology's concern\nwith reconstructing past events from physical
  clues and traces. In\nboth disciplines the different life worlds that eme
 rge after a person's\ndeath may be mobilized by investigators in the searc
 h for a past that is only\nrecoverable in this narrowly mediated form. Tak
 ing the example of forensic\nentomology Crossland considers how investigat
 ors interpret and enroll the signs\nof insects and other animals and use t
 hem as the basis for making claims to the\nreal. The assertively scientifi
 c claims of forensic work both belie and reveal\nthe circulation of its si
 gns across the divided categories of the living and\nthe dead\, human and 
 animal\, nature and culture. Such forms of forensic\ninvestigation therefo
 re offer a productive site for thinking about the\nontological status of f
 act and of the corpse and offer possible ways to\ntranspose the register i
 n which the relationships at play in such assemblages\nare conceptualized.
 Zoë Crossland is\nAssociate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at
  Columbia University\nand Director of Columbia's Center for Archaeology. H
 er research draws upon\nsemeiotic approaches to explore the problems of ar
 chaeological and forensic\nevidence and to investigate archaeology’s relat
 ionship to the past and to the\ndead body. Recent publications include Anc
 estral Encounters in Highland\nMadagascar: Material Signs and Traces of th
 e Dead (Cambridge 2014)\nand\, co-edited with Rosemary Joyce\, Disturbing 
 Bodies: Perspectives on\nForensic Archaeology (SAR\n2015). She is currentl
 y working on a book entitled The Speaking Corpse.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Afterlives
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