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We regret to inform you that we have to postpone the seminar due to the speaker's illness, Dr Tsila Rädecker. We will inform you, as soon as possible, about the new date of the meeting.

The second International Egodocumental Network Seminar will take place on Thursday, 21 November 2024, at 17.30 (Warsaw time). Our speaker will be Dr. Tsila Rädecker, with her paper: "The Lived Experience of Policing: Dina Sanson's Unique Perspective as the Netherlands First Policewoman." The seminar will be held online via Microsoft Teams.

We are pleased to publish the fourth newsletter of the Egodocumental Research Gropu from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, the University of Lodz, and Vilnius University. The full newsletter can be found here: Newsletter.

Vilnius University, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,  the University of Lodz, and the Egodocumental Research Group (https://egodocuments.umk.pl) organise an international conference focusing on research, development, and changing perceptions of egodocuments in the twenty-first century. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines to share their insights and to encourage interdisciplinary studies of egodocuments.

On June 19, 2024, the first Egodocumental Network Meeting will take place. The main goal of this meeting is to talk about expectations from the Network, Network conference, and ideas for collaboration on the egodocumental database.

The programme (Warsaw time):
17.00 Welcome word
17.10 Egodocumental Network: development and expectations, profiles
for the webpage
17.50 Establishment of the Egodocumental Network Conference
collaborative format
18.10 Egodocumental database
18.30 Any other matter

The meeting will be held online via MsTeams. If you want to join in, please write us by e-mail: egodocuments@umk.pl

The 2nd Scientific Symposium "Egodocuments, Life-writing and Autobiographical Texts. Cultural Otherness and Estrangement in the Egodocumental Perspective Through the Ages" co-organized by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the University of Lodz. We want to thank all the speakers and authors of the posters for their extremely interesting presentations.

We are glad to publish our first international newsletter about egodocumental research. The full newsletter can be found here: Newsletter 2/2024.

The Society for the Study of French History will hold its 37th annual conference at the University of Manchester from 30 June – 2 July 2024. The theme of the conference is Intimacies and the Self. Information about the conference can be found here: Intimacies and the Self.

We are glad to publish our first international newsletter about egodocumental research. The full newsletter can be found here: Newsletter 1/2024

We are happy to announce the first seminar of the initiative of the Egodocumental Research Group, which will be followed by a general discussion of the newly created Egodocumental network. The seminar will take place on 4 March 2024. For details, please read more.

We are very happy to publish the program of the conference 2^nd Scientific Symposium “Egodocuments, Life-writing and Autobiographical Texts. Cultural Otherness and Estrangement in the Egodocumental Perspective Through the Ages”.

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of History and University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History would like to invite you to the 2^nd Scientific Symposium “Egodocuments, Life-writing and Autobiographical Texts. Cultural Otherness and Estrangement in the Egodocumental Perspective Through the Ages”, 21-22 March 2024, Faculty of History NCU, Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.