Newsletter
We encourage all researchers interested in egodocuments and egodocumentality to join our newsletter. This initiative aims to spread information about our research across Europe and possibly worldwide. The newsletter will be e-mailed once a month (or as needed). Each network member can send us information about their activities, ideas, new publications, projects, and conferences that we will include in the letter.
We hope that the egodocumental network will improve communication between researchers and give new opportunities to start international cooperation.
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Newsletter 2/2024
Network:
As we mentioned at the 1st Egodocumental Seminar (4 March 2024), we want to facilitate contact between network members. This is why we plan to publish short information about those of us who are willing to do so at our website: https://egodocuments.umk.pl/. We are sending you the template in the attachment, including last and first name, academic title and position, affiliation, period of interest, keywords, remarks, and e-mail. The template also includes the GDPR statement, which we need to have completed by you in order to publish information. If you are interested in publishing the information mentioned, please send us a signed scan of the template to our e-mail: egodocuments@umk.pl.
News:
An academic journal is looking for a scientific committee:
The Yearbook of the Museum of Polish Children-Victims of Totalitarism is looking for two international members of the scientific committee. The candidates should be senior academics who are working on the period of World War II, Nazism, concentration camps, problems of childhood trauma, egodocuments from the time, etc. For more detailed information about the yearbook, see the attached file or contact dr hab. Olga Morozova, e-mail: omorozova@muzeumdziecipolskich.pl.
Conferences:
2nd Scientific Symposium "Egodocuments, Life-Writing And Autobiographical Texts. Cultural Otherness And Estrangement In The Egodocumental Perspective Through The Ages"
On 21-22, March 2024 was held at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) conference 2nd Scientific Symposium "Egodocuments, Life-Writing And Autobiographical Texts. Cultural Otherness And Estrangement In The Egodocumental Perspective Through The Ages". The meeting was organized by NCU and the University of Lodz. During the conference, we had the opportunity to hear 32 papers and see five posters prepared by students from NCU. Papers presented research based on egodocuments from the perspective of different fields of science such as history, archivistics, musicology, linguistics, and psychology from various European countries. For those interested, we are sending the conference program. We want to thank all the referents, especially our network members.
The Society for the Study of French History 37th annual conference
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. All the information can be found at the website: https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/
Biographical Research Quo Vadis? New and recurring challenges in the study of life (hi)stories and social change
From 4 to 6 September 2024 in Budapest (Hungary), the conference Biographical Research Quo Vadis? will be held. It will focus on new and recurring challenges in the study of life (hi)stories and social change. Although the deadline to submit papers has passed, but the organizers invite scholars to participate and discuss during the conference. Specific information can be found here: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-140657?utm_source=hskhtml&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=htmldigest.
New article:
Our member Łukasz Kożuchowski has just published an article entitled Egodokumenty (listy i pamiętniki) chłopów Królestwa Polskiego I chłopskich migrantów zeń jako źródła historyczne (1864-1914) in the journal Kwartalnik Historyczny. The full text can be found here: https://www.kh-ihpan.edu.pl/images/KH2023-4/06_Przeglady_Kozuchowski.pdf
Egodocumental Network and Research Group:
We are currently checking the possibilities for the second Egodocumental Seminar, which will be held in autumn, while also discussing options for the Netwrok’s conference, more news to follow.
Best wishes,
Egodocumental Research Group (UMK, UL)