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
Margarita Moisejeva
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore
Personal Audio Recordings of Everyday Life in the Cassettes of Lithuanian Old Believers Collector Ivan Maloglazov from 1998 to 2009
In the Folklore Archive of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, in addition to Lithuanian folklore material, religious records of the Lithuanian Old Believers community are stored, the largest part of which is the collection of Lithuanian Old Believers collector Ivan Maloglazov, an Old Believer himself. The collection material started to be digitized and archived only a few years ago. It is interesting that the traditional and religious recordings of Lithuanian Old Believers together make up only 39 percent of the entire collection. Most of the tapes – 61 percent of the entire collection – are Ivan Maloglazov’s personal household recordings: daily conversations with family members, friends and other people, birthdays, trips, community meetings, fragments of radio and television programmes. Household recordings reveal various socio-cultural realities of the life of the Lithuanian Old Believers community at the turn of the millennium and almost a decade after. This community, due to historical religious and political circumstances, was forced to live a tight-knit lifestyle for a long time, which makes such detailed records unique from an ethnological point of view.
