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
Agnieszka Wieczorek
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Self-Portrait of Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski (1662–1728) in the Light of Correspondence to his Sons from the 1720s
In the 1720s, the Grand Hetman of the Crown Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski (1662–1728) sent his two sons, Seweryn Józef (died 1754) and Wacław Piotr (1706–1779), on a foreign educational journey in Western Europe. The main destination of the young magnates was France, and the most important stage of the peregrination was their stay in Paris, where they continued their education abroad under the tutelage of their tutor – Marcin Kawiecki (died ca. 1751). The letters of Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski to his sons and tutor, written in the course of the young Rzewuskis’ travels in Europe, which date from 1720–1726, have been preserved. The analysis aims to create a self-portrait of the father recorded in his correspondence with his sons and tutor, and to show both the relationship between the father and sons (along with the emotions accompanying them), and the character traits of the hetman as a caring guardian.
