Francisco Scarano Lecture Series – Inaugural Talk“Peasants, Doctors, and Empires: Puerto Rico at the Turn of the 20th Century” by Professor Emeritus Francisco Scarano

Join us for the inaugural lecture of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub’s Francisco Scarano Lecture Series, honoring UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Francisco A. Scarano. In “Peasants, Doctors, and Empires,” he examines how medicine and empire shaped Puerto Rican life around 1900. Arrive early to visit Caribbean Matters: Cuestiones Caribeñas by Pablo Delano, co-curated by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Lecture begins at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for a light reception before the talk.