CFRs: “Women and Health in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World” (Madeira, Dec. 4-6)
CFRs: "Women and Health in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World" (Madeira, Dec. 4-6)
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It is our pleasure to share with you the promising range of papers that successfully made it into our roster for the Madeira conference on "Women and Health in the 19th-Century Transatlantic World" (Dec. 4-6). We would now like to solicit responses for these papers. Please propose your responses by July 25 at the latest. You will find all instructions and also a list of the papers and the set responses to date in the enclosed file of abstracts. We hope that this will enable more of you to join the conference and to share your transatlantic perspectives.
Call for Responses
5th Crosscurrents Conference—Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century
Transatlantic World
4 – 6 December 2025
Venue: University of Madeira – Rectory Building (Madeira Island, Portugal)
Organised by Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network
and University of Madeira, Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
We welcome response proposals addressing the main themes of the accepted individual papers, which can be found here on the following pages.
Each response proposal should engage directly and substantively with only ONE of the accepted individual papers.
We encourage response proposals that focus on:
- Constructively critiquing arguments, methods, or conclusions.
- Suggesting extensions (research, applications, theory).
- Discussing broader implications and contexts.
- Raising key questions or identifying tensions for future study.
Also, your response should enhance the transatlantic and transnational scope of the original paper.
Your response proposal should include:
- A 150-word abstract of the proposed response (rough collection of potential ideas suffices).
- A brief biography (150 words), including the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
Responses should last 8 to 10 minutes, depending on the number of contributors.
Please submit your response proposal to crosscurrents@amerikanistik.uni-halle.de by
July 25, 2025, with the subject line: “Response – Women’s Health Conference.”