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
Moderator: Nataliia Voloshkova
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz and Oxford Brookes University
Representations of Urban Sociability in Odesa in Early 19th-Century British Travel Accounts
Biography
Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova is associate professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is a Visiting Researcher in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (2022-2024). Dr. Voloshkova is a section editor in the research project “Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online” (EMCO, https:// https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/home/), which aims to prepare a fully annotated digital edition of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. She is the Vice-President of the Ukrainian Society for the Eighteenth-Century Studies. Dr. Voloshkova received her PhD from Donetsk National University, Ukraine in 2011. In 2015, she got a research fellowship from the John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester University. Before 24 February 2022, she lived in Kyiv and worked at Drahomanov National Pedagogical University.
Nataliia Voloshkova is the author of Bluestockings and Travel Accounts: Reading, Writing and Collecting (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and a number of publications about British travelogues and women’s life writing. Her research interests focus on letter- and diary-writing by British women intellectuals as well as on British travel accounts about Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Her recent articles are Letters, Poems, Flowers, and Bluestocking Friendship: Mary Hamilton’s Collage-Biography of Mary Delany (The Review of English Studies, 2023) and Writing Travelogues in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Story behind Mary Holderness’s Travel Account of Journeying from Riga to Crimea via Kyiv (Ukrainian Historical Review, 2024).
