Resistance and Revolution

Malcolm Compitello , Alain-Philippe Durand , Albert Welter , Praise Zenenga , Denis Provencher , Karen Seat

Spring 2018

WEDNESDAYS |

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018

Course Format: Hybrid

Location: Main Campus

Tuition: $160

This course brings together six distinguished scholars from the College of Humanities to explore movements of social resistance and revolution. Malcolm Alan Compitello, Professor and Head of Spanish and Portuguese, examines the Spanish Civil War as a crucial moment whose social and cultural impact is still felt today. Alain-Philippe Durand, Dean of the College, explores how wars and revolutions shape Jean Renoir’s 1930s films. Albert Welter, Professor and Head of East Asian Studies, focuses on the role that revolution has played in China’s 4,000-year history. Praise Zenenga, Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, addresses the important and multifaceted antiapartheid revolution in South Africa. Denis M. Provencher, Professor and Head of French and Italian, explores how North African immigrants to France resist and ultimately reshape narratives of national identity. Finally, Karen K. Seat, Associate Professor and Head of Religious Studies and Classics, will examine the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the rise of the religious right’s counterrevolution in the United States.

Syllabus

Meet Your Instructor

Alain-Philippe Durand

Dorrance Dean, College of Humanities

Department of French and Italian

ALAIN-PHILIPPE DURAND is Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities and Professor of French and Applied Intercultural Arts Research at the University of Arizona. Durand is also Affiliated Faculty in Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, LGBT Studies, and Public and Applied Humanities. His publications and courses deal with French and Latin American literature and culture, French cinema, hip-hop studies, and the kind of popular culture that characterizes the extreme contemporary.

Karen Seat

Professor; Head, Department of Religious Studies and Classics

Department of Religious Studies and Classics

Dr. Karen Seat specializes in U.S. religious history, American evangelicalism, and gender studies. In 2012, Dr. Seat began serving as director of the Religious Studies Program, and in 2015 she was appointed head of the Department of Religious Studies and Classics. In addition, she serves as Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC). Her publications include “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan (Syracuse University Press), on nineteenth-century Protestant women’s mission movements and their impact on American ideologies regarding gender, race, Christianity, and civilization.

Denis Provencher

Professor

Department of French and Italian

Dr. Denis Provencher is a Professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of French and Italian and is affiliate faculty in Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, LGBT Studies, Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. His publications include over 30 essays and two books: Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (2007) and Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (2017). He also recently co-edited the volume Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, Temporalities (2021).

Praise Zenenga

Associate Professor, Africana Studies Program Director

Department of Africana Studies

PRAISE ZENENGA is Associate Professor and Director of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. His teaching and research focus on the intersection of theater and performance with politics, history, culture, aesthetics, and identities in Africa and its diaspora. His recent publications are on African popular sport, performance, and visual arts aesthetics and how they intersect with politics, race, class, masculinities, activism, censorship, power, human rights, and food justice.

Malcolm Compitello

Professor Emeritus

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Malcolm Alan Compitello is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and former Program Director for the Humanities Seminars Program. He regularly taught classes in modern and contemporary Spanish culture and literature including the work of García Lorca. Professor Compitello is the Founding Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies one of the premier scholarly journals in that field. He has published widely in venues in Europe and the United States and is currently engaged in several projects dealing with the interconnections between cities, cultural and capital as they play out in Spain since the 1960s.

Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award 2006

Albert Welter

Professor

Department of East Asian Studies, School of International Languages Literatures and Cultures

ALBERT WELTER is a is Professor of East Asian Studies and Associate Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arizona. His academic focus is on East Asian, particularly Chinese, Buddhism and intellectual history. In one of his latest works, The Future of China’s Past, Welter charts the implications of China’s rise as it reincorporates its traditional intellectual traditions in the contemporary landscape.