The UCLA Department of History Presents: Fetal Subjects and Legal Personhood in the Pre-Modern Catholic World: Theology, Medicine, and the Law
Conference Program • June 8-10 • 306 Royce Hall, UCLA
Monday June 8
Block One: Theology and Embryology
10:00 | Daniel Sennert and the Problem of the Soul: From Generation to Theological Suspicion Joel Klein, The Huntington Library
10:45 | Politics of the Pure Body: Theology and Diplomacy in the Immaculate Conception Ana Sanchez Casado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
11:30 | Out of Context: Sermons, Scripture, and Ensoulment in Cangiamila’s Sacred Embryology Karin Ekholm, Virginia Theological Seminary
Block Two: Evangelizing The Spanish Empire
1:15 | Cangiamila in Alta California: Pastoral Obstetrics in the Missions of Colonial California Anne Reid, CSU Fullerton
2:00 | Of Witnesses and Practitioners: Ordinary People, “Experts,” and Accounts of Cesarean Operations in the Spanish Empire Adam Warren, The University of Washington at Seattle
2:45 | The Early Uptake of Cesarean Surgery in Arizpe, Arizona, 1766
Elizabeth O’Brien, UCLA
4:30-6:00 Keynote 1: Abortion in Early Modern Italy John Christopoulos, University of British Columbia
Tuesday June 9
Block Three: Body and Soul in Iberia and Belgium
9:30 | “Peramorde Déu”:Cross-confessionalMidwiferyintheLateMedievalMediterranean World
Debra Blumenthal, UCSB
10:15 | Sacred Dietetics, or Ordinary and Extraordinary Fasting Spencer Weinreich, UCLA
11:00 | Aborting the Archive: Pregnancy Criminalization in Early Nineteenth Century Galicia
Mary Kate Wolken, University of Minnesota
11:45 | Cangiamila’s Afterlives: Ideological Conflict and the Postmortem Caesarean Section in Belgium Jolien Gijbels, Free University of Brussels
Block Four: Philanthropy, Obstetrics, and Midwifery in Sicily and France
1:30 | Fetal Subjects and Foundling Subjects in Early Modern Sicily Erin Maglaque, Durham University
2:15 | Midwifing Baptism: Promoting Catholicism through Parochial Midwifery Education in Languedoc Scottie Buehler, Texas State University
3:00 | When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Historicizing Fetal Viability in the Early 19th Century Jennifer Kosmin, Auburn University
4:30-6:00 Keynote 2: The Dangerous Womb: A History of Pregnancy Loss and Blame Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday June 10
Block Five: Slavery and Legal Personhood
10:00 | Partus Sequitur Ventrem, Fetal Life, and Gendered Slavery in Colonial and 19th-Century Brazil Cassia Roth, University of California, Riverside
10:45 | Bearers of Interest: Slavery and Legal Personhood in Early Modern Havana Adriana Chira, Emory University
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/4674787380
