I’m pleased to announce that together with my colleague Pia Schmüser, I’ll be presenting at the upcoming international conference “Egodocuments from Medieval Codex to Modern Media: Narratives, Presentations, Identities“, which takes place in Vilnius from May 15–17, 2025.
Our presentation is titled:
“Diaries as Alter-Ego-Documents: Constructions of Diaries as a Personified Dialogical ‘Other’ in Late 19th and 20th Century Germany.”
Our talk is part of our broader collaborative work within the research project “Between Voice and Silence: Communicative Norms in Diaries, 1840-1990”, funded by The Leverhulme Trust as a collaboration between the University of Reading, UK, and the University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany, with support from The Great Diary Project in London and the German Diary Archive (Deutsches Tagebucharchiv) in Emmendingen.
The conference, organized by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Vilnius University and the University of Lodz within the context of the International Egodocumental Research Group, brings together scholars from across Europe to explore the interpretive potential of ego-documents—letters, diaries, autobiographies, and more—as vital sources for understanding historical subjectivities and experiences. We’re very much looking forward to the exchange of ideas and the opportunity to connect with fellow researchers working on the many voices—spoken and unspoken—of the past.
Theo Jung 