The Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State invites the public to a Latino/Latin American Studies presentation by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, visiting assistant professor from the department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College.

The lecture “From Resistance to Complicity: How Puerto Rican Physicians’ Politics changed during the shift from Spanish to U.S. Colonialism,” will be Wed., March 1 at 2 p.m., in room 1163 of Old Main, on the southwest corner of Cass and Warren in Detroit.

Trujillo-Pagan’s scholarship has focused on the relationship between colonialism and the practice of medicine in Puerto Rico’s modernization experience during the 20th century. Her other interests include urban institutions, gender issues, the Asian diaspora and health reconstruction efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans.

For more information, call (313) 577-4378.

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