5th Crosscurrents Conference at the University of Madeira, December 4-6, 2025
Deadline: August 15, 2025
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 on our website.
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
August 15, 2025, with the subject line: “Response – Women’s Health Conference.”
Organizers: Julia Nitz (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Inês Tadeu (University of Madeira)