Francis Galasi
12 pm | Clark Hall Room 206 | 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106
In the early modern period, the Discalced Franciscans became the leading healthcare providers in the Philippine islands, a small colonial outpost on the fringes of the Spanish empire. The hospitals run by these religious missionaries functioned as multivalent spaces, simultaneously engaged in bodily care and cure, spiritual conversion and renewal, and colonial resistance and governance. A strong recurring theme in this story is how unique conditions in the Spanish Philippines engendered an overlap of medical, religious, and political work in traditional healthcare spaces. Ultimately, particularly in an early modern colonial context, the research of Francis Galasi, Lecturer in the Department of History, expands our notions of what a hospital could mean and what it could do.
An informal lunch will be provided.
Registration is requested. Register HERE.