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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.