1st International Egodocumental Network Conference
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.
The conference will also be the first meeting of the International Egodocumental Network established in December 2023 by the Egodocumental Research Group (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Lodz) to unite scholars from different disciplines working on egodocuments. It provides a platform for discussion, collaboration, and exchange of information between the participants, as well as online research seminars organized twice a year. In this dimension, our conference continues two editions of the Scientific Symposium "Egodocuments, Life-Writing and Autobiographical Texts..." organized at NCU in Toruń in 2022 and 2024.
Keynote speakers
Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova
Kazimierz Wielki University and Oxford Brookes University
Prof. Leona Toker
Hebrew University and Shalem Academic College
Prof. François-Joseph Ruggiu
Sorbonne Université, CNRS and Oxford University
Daniel Götte
Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden
Crimea 44: A War Report
The special exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, planned for the end of 2025, focuses on the war experiences of Hauptmann Dr. Heinz Roesch in Crimea in April and May 1944. With a detailed report and numerous photographs, the general staff officer of the V. Corps of the 17th Army documented the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht and its allies to the Sevastopol Fortress, and then the destruction of the army there.
In this context, Roesch asked about the military, political and human (non-)sense of war, searched for the legitimacy of violence in ideological images of friends and enemies, and ultimately resigned himself to unfulfilled hopes. He saw the high human and material losses in the battle on all sides and ultimately recognized the senseless actions of the Wehrmacht. The exhibition uses Roesch’s descriptions and pictures to illustrate the operational, social and economic doubts he had regarding German warfare when the 17th Army collapsed.
