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The International Congress of Balticists is a conference that brings together researchers of the Baltic languages every five years in Vilnius or Riga. First organized in 1964, it will be held for the 14th time in 2025 at Vilnius University.

The conference page: https://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/en/

We are pleased to invite WORKSHOP PROPOSALS on current topics in Baltic linguistics for the 14th International Congress of Balticists.

Find Call for Workshops here: https://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/.../call-for...

Welcome to the 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE, 25–27 September 2025, at Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Conference Themes

• Sociolinguistics
• Language policy
• Discourse analysis
• Translation
• Language teaching and learning
• Language acquisition
• Language testing
• Corpus linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Sign language
• Pragmatics

Deadlines submission of abstracts: 17 February 2025 submission of workshop proposals: 3 February 2025
Contact person (Ms) Lina Vaškevičienė lina.vaskeviciene@flf.vu.lt
More information: https://litaka.lt/en/

The Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies at the University of Latvia invites submissions of abstracts for the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols “The language system, morphemics and derivational morphology”, to be held on March 20–21, 2025.

The focus of the 2025 conference is on the grammatical and lexical system of language, its architecture, description and interpretation from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, with a particular emphasis on morphemics and word formation.

Participants are invited to present their research focusing on, but not limited to, the following main thematic areas:

1) methodological approaches to morphemic analysis, problem cases;

2) allomorphism, its different facets and manifestations;

3) morpheme polyfunctionality;

4) borderline cases in delimiting morphemes, words and constructions;

5) the formal and semantic diversity of derivational morphology, incl. various non-straightforward cases;

6) links and relationships between word formation and inflection;

7) derivational morphology and derivational motivation, cases of asymmetry;

8) derivational models and types, derivational semantics;

9) creativity in word formation;

10) word formation in terminology.

We expect submissions from different standpoints (e.g., general, areal, typological, cognitive, functional, contrastive, quantitative, etc.) and theoretical frameworks with material from Latvian and other languages.

Conference languages – Latvian, Lithuanian and English.

Conference format – in person.

Presentations – 20 minutes (15-minute talk, 5 minutes for questions).

Conference fee – 60 EUR. The fee covers coffee breaks.

Abstracts – 250–500 words (excluding references) plus the list of references.

Applications (containing information regarding the name, surname and academic affiliation of the participant(s) – a university, a research institute, etc.) and abstracts should be sent to lvling.conf@lu.lv by January 27, 2025, with the reference “the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols”. Each individual may submit up to two abstracts: one as sole or first author, one as second author.

Notifications of acceptance will be given no later than February 10, 2025.

For additional information, visit https://aok.2025.lu.lv/en/

We invite students from the centers of the Baltic studies to participate in the second International School of Baltistics at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University. It will be held from 28 to 30 November 2024.

The students will have the opportunity to listen to lectures by Baltistics on different topics. They will also take part in seminars and network with students from other centers.

·         Fluency in Lithuanian at A2/B1 level is required.

·         Participation is free of charge, and we will also provide travel, accommodation and lunch.

·         The number of participants is very limited.

Registration is open until 20 October at: https://forms.gle/w8CEv4UWapVFXVYk9

If you have any questions, please contact ernesta.kazakenaite@flf.vu.lt

It is organized by Department of Baltic studies at Vilnius University, financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. More information on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1705150723358372

We invite you to a seminar/discussion on key challenges in multicultural learning settings, organised by the Centre for Educational Excellence. The workshop is relevant to teachers and lecturers working with international student groups, but all are welcome. The discussion will take place on 17 September 2024, 18:00-19:30 on the MSTeams platform. Please see the invitation for more information.

Invitation

We are pleased to invite foreigners to register for Lithuanian language and culture winter courses. Please complete the registration form by 14 October. Registration form.

We are pleased to inform you that the symposium ‘Turning times in the Baltics and in Baltic Studies. A symposium by the HUG’ will now take place on 26 and 27 September.

Registrations can be made until 22 September at simon.moll@hu-berlin.de.

Programme

We kindly invite you to participate in the international scientific conference “Methodological Innovations in the Study of Linguistic Variation”.

The workshop features aspects of corpus building (sampling, architecture, pipeline, digitization, OCR), annotation (conception, tagset design, tagging, parsing) and corpus use (search, re-use, re-annotation), throwing a spotlight on a number of historical languages (Old High German, Old Lithuanian, Early New High German, Belarusian) and corpora (RIDGES, Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch, PosTiMe, SLIEKKAS, Lutherkorpus).

If you would like to  participate online, please contact Mortimer Drach (mortimer.drach@hu-berlin.de).

For more information, please visit: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/workshop-methods-in-historical-corpus-building/