2025 Conference

5th Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network Conference

The 5th conference of the Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network will take place at the University of Madeira, December 4–6, 2025. Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March, 2025. 

Abstract:

We invite contributions on the theme of “Women and Health in the Nineteenth Century Transatlantic World” that explore the intricate relationship between health discourses and concepts of womanhood, as well as the experiences and realities that women encountered, engaged in, resisted, or helped create. We encourage cross-disciplinary studies and comparative transnational perspectives.

After the conference a selection of papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.

Keynote Speakers

LaKisha Michelle Simmons

LaKisha Michelle Simmons, Ph.D. is a historian of African American gender history specializing in Black girlhood, history of the family, history of sexuality and southern history in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is Associate Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.

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Cristina Pinheiro

Cristina Pinheiro is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Universidade da Madeira) and member of the Centre of Classical Studies (Universidade de Lisboa). Her research interests are women and children in Classical Antiquity,Ancient and Early Modern medical treatises on gynecology and obstetrics, death, grief and motherhood. At present, she is the PI of the project "Gynecia: Rodericus a Castro Lusitanus and the ancient medical tradition on gynecology and embryology", funded by FCT.