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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Claude Cahun's Curiosity
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SUMMARY:Claude Cahun's Curiosity
DESCRIPTION:<h2><a href="/france-and-world">FRANCE AND THE WORLD</a></h2><h2>SPEAKER:&nbsp;<span>Hannah Freed-Thall, New York University</span></h2><p><span>Abstract: This talk explores the anti-fascistic&nbsp;potential of curiosity, taking avant-garde artist Claude Cahun as a case study. In 1930, Cahun and their partner Marcel Moore published </span><em>Cancelled Confessions —&nbsp; </em><span>a&nbsp;genre-exploding anti-memoir, alt-Surrealist collage experiment, and visual-verbal remapping of the genderqueer body.&nbsp;In place of Surrealism’s libidinal fixation on woman-as-muse, </span><em>Cancelled Confessions </em><span>offers up trans/queer curiosity as its edgy, wayward ethos. Hannah Freed-Thall will discuss how Cahun and Moore’s fierce defiance still speaks to us today.</span></p><h3><span>About the Speaker</span></h3><p><span>Hannah Freed-Thall is Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at NYU. She is the author of </span><em>Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism </em><span>(Oxford UP, 2015), which was awarded the Scaglione Prize for French &amp; Francophone Studies and the Modernist Studies Association Prize for a First Book, and </span><em>Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons </em><span>(Columbia UP, 2023), which received the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.&nbsp;</span></p>
LOCATION:Barker Center, Room 133
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