Francisco Scarano Lecture Series – Inaugural Talk
“Peasants, Doctors, and Empires: Puerto Rico at the Turn of the 20th Century” by Professor Emeritus Francisco Scarano
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time
4:30 p.m.
Location
Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art
Description
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.
Join us for a light reception before the talk.
Cost
Free and open to the public
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-263-1661 or email prstudies.hub@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.