X-Rays Seeing the Invisible

This research from an interdisciplinary perspective, presented by Jana Lozanoska, focuses on international criminal law and the visual art exhibition “Radiography” by artist Henry Lewis and forensics. It discusses the nature of X-rays images as evidence and conceptualizes the term ‘contemporary forensics’ deployed during international criminal investigations of mass crimes by focusing on the standards for admission/authentication and probative value of this type of evidence in the International Criminal Court, in particular for the Lubanga case involving the recruitment of child soldiers. The research critically engages with novel approaches of (re)construction of evidence. It distinguishes between forensic radiology and forensic odontology and its interactions with forensic anthropology in examining the interrelationship between X-ray images and regular photographs. Finally, it examines the theoretical writings of the media and culture studies theorist Vilém Flusser proposing phenomenological aesthetics of X-rays as publicity on the one hand and confidentiality on the other as tension that stems out of forums, courts, or arts exhibitions.

Jana Lozanoska teaches human rights and international law at Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Science, where she has headed the human rights and international law program since 2019. Her research interests are in the fields of technology, justice, spatiality and temporality, memory, evidence, and visuality. She has published several contributions in this respect. Lozanoska has written extensively across the Macedonian public sphere on issues of reconciliation, justice, and technology. She has contributed to and edited the volume Name Issue Revisited, Anthology of Academic Articles (MIC, 2013) collection of contributions from domestic and international authors across disciplines. Lozanoska has published a novel Living Room (ILIILI, 2015), which ran for best novel prize and entered the semifinal, and two poetry books. Her creative work deals with the interrelationship between memory, body, identity, photography, and painting.

This presentation is part of the Faculty Colloquium Series.

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Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: P24 SR8

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