Program

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Thursday, Dec. 4

Labor, Love and Loss: Black Women, their Children, and the Ancestors
LaKisha Michelle Simmons

16.00	Registration and Conference Warming (coffee and snacks provided) at the venue.
17.00	Reading Labor, Love and Loss: Black Women, their Children, and the Ancestors LaKisha Michelle Simmons
18.15	Musical Performance and Walkabout The University of Madeira Choir performs at Funchal City Hall, followed by a short walk around the city centre.

Friday, Dec. 5

9.00	Conference Opening
9.15	Keynote Caring for Sick Refugees: Black Women and their Children in the U.S. Civil War LaKisha Michelle Simmons (Associate Professor of History & Women’s and Gender Studies, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan)
10.15-10.45	Coffee Break
10.45-12.15	Panel I: Habits From Dangerous Pleasures to Bad Habits. Navigating the Boundaries of Women’s Drinking in Post-partition XIX-Century Poland Dorota Dias-Lewandowska (Polish Academy of Sciences) “Oh Doctor, Shoot Me Quick!” Women Addicts and Medical Practice in Victorian America Katharina Motyl (University of Mannheim) Response: Louisa May Alcott’s Reply to Rebecca Harding Davis’s Critical Vision of Transcendentalist Utopias Daniela Daniele (University of Udine) Noisy Environments – Loud Women: On Noise, Silence, and Medicalized Moral Discourses of Women’s Health Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
12.15-14.15	Lunch Break
14.15-15.30	Panel II: Literature I Sickly and Monstrous. The Infectious Spread of the Female Fantastic in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s “Miss Grief” Antonia Purk (University of Mannheim) Creeping Into the Dark – An Ultimately Futile Struggle Against the Age of Reason in “The Yellow Wallpaper”? Eva Rösler (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) Response to Eva Rösler’s „Creeping Into the Dark – An Ultimately Futile Struggle Against the Age of Reason in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’?“ Emily Nalugonzi Ssempuuma (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
15.30-16.00	Coffee Break
16.00-17.00	Panel III: Literature II Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in the Works of Katherine Anne Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century Alice Bailey Cheylan (University of Toulon) Transatlantic Conversations: The Language of Health in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Stéphanie Durrans (University Bordeaux Montaigne)
19.30	Conference Dinner (at the Beerhouse seafront restaurant in downtown Funchal.)

Saturday, Dec. 6

9.00	Keynote The Medical Tradition on Moles, Monsters, and Hermaphrodites Cristina Pinheiro (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira and member of the Centre for Classical Studies, Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon)
10.00-10.30	Coffee Break
10.30-12.00	Panel IV: Colonialism and Diplomacy Mr. Lady Doctor: Ridicule, Gender and Health in Colonial Bengal Shromona Das (Free University Berlin) Exoticism and Medicine: Gendered Imagery in Coca Advertising Kim Embrey (independent researcher) Agency Amid Systemic Constraints: A Diplomat’s Wife’s Story Speaks Today Etta Madden (Missouri State University)
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30-15.00	Panel V: Female Doctors The Power of the “Witch”/“Baba”: Nineteenth-century Transfer of Medical Knowledge, Pseudo-medical Superstition and the Socio-political Function of the Witch Doctor in 19th-century Eastern Europe Dariusz Pniewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń; Georg-August-University Göttingen) Feminising the Field: Women Dentists and Pharmacists in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire Janet Laidla (University of Tartu) Rejected, Yet Determined: Anna Tomaszewicz-Dobrska and Maria E. Zakrzewska – the First Polish Female Doctors: in Poland and in the USA Anitta Maksymowicz (Museum Ziemi Lubuskiej)
15.00-15.15	Coffee Break
15.15-16.45	Panel VI: Reproduction “If We Could Only Cure Her”: Cure as Conception in Nineteenth Century Gynaecological Surgery Emma Day (University College London) Response to Emma Day’s, “’If We Could Only Cure Her’: Cure as Conception in Nineteenth Century Gynaecological Surgery” Etta Madden (Missouri State University) Men-made Advice as Female Empowerment? Manuals on Pregnancy and Childbirth and their Ambivalent Role in Women’s Health (1890s-1920s) Sarah Lias Ceide (University Heidelberg) Commentary to Panel Irina Paert (Untiversity of Tartu)
16.45-17.45	Panel VII: Sex Work Pathologizing and Punishing: Prostitution, Venereal Disease and State Surveillance in Portugal and the British Empire in the 19th Century Duarte Ruas Camões (University of Porto) The Regulation of Prostitution in the 19th Century: The Intersection of Sexual and Medical Criminal Law Vid Žepič (University of Ljubljana) Response to Vid Žepič’s “The Regulation of Prostitution in the 19th Century: The Intersection of Sexual and Medical Criminal Law” Damian Korošec (University of Ljubljana)
18.00	Feedback and Farewell

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