Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network; Inês Tadeu, Univ. of Madeira and Julia Nitz, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Web)

Time: 04.-06.12.2025
Venue: Univ. of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal
Proposals by: 25.07.2025

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“. We would now like to solicit responses for these papers. Please propose your responses by July 25 at the latest. We welcome response proposals addressing the main themes of the accepted individual papers, which can be found on our website (Web).
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, the 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 with the subject line: “Response – Women’s Health Conference.”

Call for papers
Notions of women’s health in the long 19th century were part and parcel of transatlantic societies‘ gender politics. Therefore, it doesn’t come as a surprise that foundational twentieth-century feminist scholars turned to questions of women’s health in their critique of patriarchal power structures. In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers such as Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, in their so-called “feminist reconstruction of history,” argued that we should study … read more and source (Web).