BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15126-b621bc8725a58a08c225ce94ad535156@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260502T161433Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T140000 SUMMARY:“Claiming and Contesting Disability in Late Colonial Lima, Peru” by Adam Warren DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract: This talk considers eighteenth-century Peruvian civil cases involving enslaved Africans as sites for articulating and ne gotiating ideas about bodies\, disability\, and fitness. Afforded permis sion to sue their owners in the Spanish Empire's courts\, enslaved litig ants navigated legal channels to attain what historian Michele McKinley describes as "fractional freedoms\," incremental improvements to their c ircumstances. Enslaved litigants petitioned for these gains by accusing owners of cruelty\, neglect\, or overwork and by claiming existing or re sulting bodily injury\, disease\, or mental unwellness. Central to their legal strategies was the act of drawing attention to their own bodies\; enslaved litigants often petitioned to have physicians and surgeons ins pect them to confirm the presence or absence of disability. Through anal ysis of multiple civil cases\, I argue this litigation gave rise to a co ncept of disability based not on liberal notions of universal rights\, b ut rather on enslaved litigants' claims to early modern legal principles that recognized forms of corporate status based on vulnerability\, excl usion\, and suffering that under Spanish law could warrant and require p rotection.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/warren/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract: This talk considers eighteenth-century Peruvian civil cases involving enslave d Africans as sites for articulating and negotiating ideas about bodies, disability, and fitness. Afforded permission to sue their owners in the Spanish Empire's courts, enslaved litigants navigated legal channels to attain what historian Michele McKinley describes as "fractional freedom s," incremental improvements to their circumstances. Enslaved litigants petitioned for these gains by accusing owners of cruelty, neglect, or ov erwork and by claiming existing or resulting bodily injury, disease, or mental unwellness. Central to their legal strategies was the act of draw ing attention to their own bodies; enslaved litigants often petitioned t o have physicians and surgeons inspect them to confirm the presence or a bsence of disability. Through analysis of multiple civil cases, I argue this litigation gave rise to a concept of disability based not on libera l notions of universal rights, but rather on enslaved litigants' claims to early modern legal principles that recognized forms of corporate stat us based on vulnerability, exclusion, and suffering that under Spanish l aw could warrant and require protection.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/eve nt/warren/

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