As part of its Spring 2025 cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 36—the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “Los viajes de Betances: colonialismo y diáspora en el Caribe Finisecular” [Betances’s Travels: Colonialism and Diaspora in the Caribbean Fin-de-Siècle] by Jossianna Arroyo Martínez (University of Texas-Austin). The commentator will be Dr. Francisco Moscoso (Emeritus Professor, UPR-RP).
Description: This event, held during the week celebrating the birth of Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827-1898), places the past in the context of current concerns and questions. This event will take place today, Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 1:00pm (AST) in Room 238 of the Ramón Emeterio Betances Building (REB 238), School of Social Sciences, UPR-RP.
This event will be streamed live via the Caribbean Studies Institute’s YouTube channel (Youtube del IEC).
For more information, please write to iec.ics@upr.edu or to the director, Dr. Don E. Walicek, at don.walicek@urp.edu or call 787-763-2943 ext. 87737.
[Image of Betances from the 80grados.com archives. Also read an excellent article by José G. Rigau Pérez “Enseñanza de la historia de Puerto Rico: un ejercicio en subversión, 1877” (September 2019)at https://www.80grados.net/betances-charles-simon-y-la-ensenanza-de-la-historia-un-ejercicio-en-subversion-1877/]
As part of its Spring 2025 cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 36—the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “Los viajes de Betances: colonialismo y diáspora en el Caribe Finisecular” [Betances’s Travels: Colonialism and Diaspora in the Caribbean Fin-de-Siècle]
