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: Leona Toker
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Shalem Academic College
From Egodocuments to Autofiction: The Points of Overlap
Biography
Leona Toker, Professor Emerita of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010), Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading (2019), and articles on English, American, and Russian writers. She has edited Commitment in Reflections: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994) and co-edited Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H. M. Daleski (1996), and Knowledge and Pain (2021). She is Editor of Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Johns Hopkins University Press). In 2023 she guest-edited a forum on Anatoly Kuznetsov, author of Babi Yar, for East European Holocaust Studies
