Conference Report: 4th Intercontinental Crosscurrents Conference – Virtual Conversations
“Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Monday, June 7
Keynote: “The Humanitarian Work of Clara Barton,” Jake Wynn (Missing Soldiers Office, Washington, D.C.)
Network Meeting and Three Minute Project Presentations
Stephanie Durrans: Int. Conference at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne in June 2023 on the “Special Relation” between France and Louisiana” Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen: “Political Asylum”
Katrin Horn: “19th Century Gossip/ Transnational Knowledge Exchange”
Julia Nitz: “Intertextuality and 19th-century Women Writers”
Joanne Paisana: “Mobility and Memory Culture”
Charlotte Purkis: “Women Critics of the Arts”
Monday, June 28
“The Devil is in the chores. 19th-Century Romantic Historical Witch Heroines in Domestic Service,” Inês Tadeu FG (University of Madeira) Response: Rimika Singhvi (IIS University, Jaipur)
“Utterly Inconsolable! Mary Todd Lincoln, FLOTUS, and the Affective Labors of National Mourning,” Stefanie Schäfer (Univ. of Vienna) Response: Sirpa Salenius (University of Eastern Finland)
Monday, July 19
“Baroness Orczy and the British White Feather Campaign,” Agnes Strickland-Pajtok (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary) Response: Bahar Gürsel (Middle East Technical University (METU/ODTÜ), Ankara, Turkey)
Thursday, November 11
12:30 pm (EST) 6:30 pm (CET) 9:30 am (PST) 5:30 pm (GMT) via Zoom (approx. 2 hours, including break)“Women and Colonial Knowledge Production: Mabel Bent as Collector, Travel Writer, and Photographer,” Esther Wetzel (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) Response: Verena Laschinger (Erfurt University)
“A ‘Genuine Missionary’ and an ‘Indefatigable Worker’: Katherine Wambold in Korea, 1896-1934” by Bahar Gürsel (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Response by Katherine G. Lacson (Ateneo de Manila University, Q.C. Philippines))
Virtual conference organizers: Laura-Isabella Heitz, MLU Halle-Wittenberg Khristeena Lute, SUNY Adirondack Julia Nitz, MLU Halle-Wittenberg Sandra H. Petrulionis, Penn State University, Altoona