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French PhD Candidate Joanna Conings will be interviewed about her research on women and the making of the French Nationality Room as part of ongoing TV coverage of Pittsburgh’s Francophone community and the upcoming Steelers game in Paris.
Watch her interview on ABC-WTAE on Sunday, October 25th, airing from 7:00am through 9:30am, or check out the
Renzo Carbonera’s Italian production of August Wilson’s Jitney comes to Pittsburgh
The Italian film and theatre director has brought the Italian production of August Wilson’s
FRIT Guest Curators to Launch New Exhibits
Guest curators from the Department of French & Italian will introduce new exhibits on the histories of the Italian Nationality Room and French Nationality Room, developed from Nationality Rooms archi
"Hysteria: Then and Now," a photography exhibit created by Dr. Kaliane Ung's Health Humanities Research Lab, opens on Monday 2 February at Hillman Library.
In 19th-century Paris, Dr. Charcot exposed the bodies of hysteric patients in the name of research and care. To dismantle hierarchies of knowledge, students use photography and self-narration as scholarly practice, reinventing gender performance as a site of agency. They stage madness as embodied responses to conditions that render marginalized subjects unbelievable, sexually scrutinized, and epistemically suspect. Asserting bodily autonomy, the images do more than resist the clinical gaze.