***CANCELLED | new date in fall term 2025 tba***Working Lunch with Lorenza Mondada

Talk: "Making Bones talk: Multiple ontologies of bones in the work of the forensic laboratory". (Fernanda Cruz - Lorenza Mondada - Edson Teles)

The talk offers a glimpse on a project that studies a diversity of investigative practices of a forensic laboratory specialised in the reconstruction and reidentification of human remains of disappeared political activists in Brazil. In this talk we illustrate our video methodology and analysis by addressing the issue of how the multi-disciplinary practices of the forensic experts deal with (and shape) multiple bone ontologies: the bones constituting a case are approached within very different perspectives, while aiming at coordinating them within a coherent description, based on a coherent set of scientific, historical and legal evidences.

Lorenza Mondada is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Basel. Her research deals with social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective. Her research focuses on how the situated and endogenous organization of social interaction draws on a diversity of multimodal resources such as, beside language, gesture, gaze, body posture, movements, objects manipulations as well as multisensorial practices such as touching, tasting, smelling and seeing.

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