News

We invite you to participate in the 5th International Scientific Aleksandras Vanagas’ Conference “Language and Culture Dialogue in 21st Century Onomastics”. The Conference will be held on November 7–8, 2024. Venue: The Institute of the Lithuanian Language, P. Vileišio St. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius and in Zoom platform.

Suggested Topics

• Onyms as a research object in Lithuanian, Baltic, and Indo-European studies;
• Onyms at the intersection of languages and cultures;
• Signs of national identity in onyms;
• Between old onomasticon and the written Links between the historical onomasticon and cultural context;
• The current coverage of traditional and modern onomastic research;
• Naming tendencies of people, places, and other entities.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. hab. prof. UŁ Artur Gałkowski (University of Lodz, Poland), Assoc. prof. dr. Olena Fomenko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine), Dr. Sanda Rapa (Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia, Latvia), Dr. Christian Zschieschang (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Germany).

Conference languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, English.  Duration of plenary session reports – 30 mins. Duration of reports – 20 mins.

Conference fee:

80 EUR, before October 1, 2024. 100 EUR, before November 4, 2024. Online participation is free of charge.

Please transfer your  participation fee to the  following account: 

Lietuvių kalbos institutas

Vileišio Str. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania

Reg. no 111955023

„Swedbank" AB

BIC: HABALT22

IBAN: LT58 7300 0100 0245 3597

Please indicate: AVK2024, conference fee, Name,  Surname 

Conference fee includes cultural events.

Important Dates

The deadline for submission of participant forms and abstracts  – is August 30, 2024. Notification of acceptance – September 20, 2024. Publication of the conference program – October 15, 2024.

Abstract

1500–2000 characters with spaces.

Scientific Committee

Akad. prof. habil. dr. Grasilda Blažienė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language (chairperson), Dr. Laimutis Bilkis, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, PD habil. dr. Harald Bichlmeier, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig, Germany, Assoc. prof. dr. Katharina Leibring, Uppsala University, Sweden, Prof. dr. Aleksandr Iliadi, K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Ukraine, Doc. habil. dr. Ilja Lemeškin, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Prof. dr. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė-Villanueva Svensson, Vilnius University, Dr. Anta Trumpa, Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia, Latvia.

Organizing Committee

Dr. Darius Ivoška, Institute of the Lithuanian Language  (chairperson), Dr. Pavel Skorupa, Institute of the Lithuanian Language (vice-chairperson), Dr. Alma Ragauskaitė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Dr. Dovilė Tamulaitienė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Mgr. Alisa Stunžaitė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Mgr. Dalia Sviderskienė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Dokt. Marius Glebus, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Povilas Bialoglovis, Institute of the Lithuanian Language

Contacts

Please submit participant forms and abstracts here: https://forms.gle/72PmSywhbVWiW5hr8

For more information, please visit https://avk.lki.lt/  or contact darius.ivoska@lki.lt

We invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the professor the University of Latvia, Marta Rudzīte (1924–1996).

RELEVANT ISSUES IN BALTIC LANGUAGE RESEARCH
Riga, November 14–16, 2024
University of Latvia

We invite paper applications in areas closely related to the professor's research:
— Geolinguistics
— Dialectology
— Historical grammar
— Toponymy
— History of written language
— Baltic language contacts with other languages
— Linguists and their research
Other proposals are also welcome.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
two-day conference (November 14–15);
excursion to the life and work sites of M. Rudzīte (November 16)

WORKING LANGUAGES: Latvian, Lithuanian, English, German

PLANNED LENGTH OF THE PAPER: 30 min. (20 min. presentation, 10 min. discussions)

IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE
● Expression of interest and preliminary topic proposal and short annotation — by August 1, 2024
● Response on acceptance of submission — by August 30, 2024
● Final submission of topics and abstract — by September 15, 2024

EXPECTED PARTICIPATION FEE — EUR 50, doctoral students – EUR 30

APPLICATION
Please send the participant application form to the specified address by August 1, 2024
Email: baltu.filologija@lu.lv 

On May 27-28, 2024, for the seventh time the International Lithuanian Congress will take place at Wrocław University. We are proud to invite every person interested in Lithuania, its language, culture, history, politics, the relations between Lithuania, Poland and their neighbors, to participate in the 7th Congress, commemorating some of Lithuania’s most important anniversaries.

The year 2024 marks 20 years since Lithuania and Poland’s accession to the European Union and of Lithuania’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In this very year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lithuania and Poland’s declaration of friendship and neighborly relations.

Immanuel Kant, a leading figure in contemporary philosophy, whose thoughts on the nature of language are still up to date, was born 300 years ago.

We also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian Song Celebrations (Dainų šventė), which first took place on August 23-25, 1924 in Kaunas. The Celebrations comprise a crucial part of Lithuania’s cultural identity, characterized by unique forms of expression, placed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The 7th International Lithuanian Congress invites researchers of various fields, social and cultural activists to participate in discussions, divided into following sessions of the conference:

·         Lithuanian language and comparative linguistics

·         culture, literature and folklore

·         history of Lithuania, Lithuanian-Polish relations

·         politics, law and society

·         Immanuel Kant – man and philosopher

During the 7th Congress, a diverse cultural program and expert debates will be presented.

More details and the application form could be found on https://labaswroclaw.wordpress.com/. Applications will be accepted until April 1, 2024.

INVITATION

A research group “Linguistic, Literary, Cultural and Historical Research: the Regional Aspect” organises an international interdisciplinary scientific conference The Region: History, Culture, Language on the 16th–17th of May, 2024. Researchers of different fields are invited to participate and discuss the subject using different perspectives. 

Suggested topics:

• Methodologies and methods in regional research;
• Regions in historical research;
• Cultural and communication memory in the region;
• Regional policy and governance;
• Region in ethnology, anthropology and cultural research;
• Regional identity, mentality and self-awareness;
• Ethnographic peculiarities of regions;
• Linguistic understanding of the region, territorial and social dialects, language specifics;
• Regional literature and regional authors, regions and regionality in literature;
• Traditional and contemporary applied and visual art expression in the region;
• Development opportunities for the design sector in the region;
• Regions in the context of informal art education;
• The specifics of musical folklore in the regions;
• The peculiarities of creation, dissemination and perception of professional music in the regions.

KVIETIMAS

INVITATION

We invite students from foreign and Lithuanian Baltic studies centers to participate in the International School at of Baltistics at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University. It will be held from 23 to 25 November 2023.

The students will have the opportunity to listen to lectures by Balticists on Old writings, Prussian language, the grammar of Baltic languages and onomastics. 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 meals for participants coming from abroad.

·         The number of participants is very limited.

Registration is open until 2 November at: https://forms.gle/sR3umk9aQ3iPZCB89

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

Digital Integrated Education Tool (SIUP) "Lithuania in the World - the World in Lithuania" (https://hmf.vdu.lt/mokslas/elektroniniai-istekliai/) is an interdisciplinary universal tool for Lithuanian language studies, designed for students and teachers of Baltic Studies Centres and Lithuanian language schools . We hope that SIUP will promote empathetic interest in the historical and cultural links between Lithuania and different foreign countries, in the current interaction and cooperation between peoples, states and societies in various spheres of political, economic and socio-cultural life.

The book was started to be written in 2017 at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, and since 2019 its preparation had continued at Vytautas Magnus University.

On 11-18 June, Dr. Halina Beresnevičiūtė Nosalova from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, was visiting Vytautas Magnus University. During her visit, Dr. H. Beresnevičiūtė-Nosalova worked in libraries, where she collected material for the courses on history and literature of the Baltic region. She also gathered material for forthcoming publications in the field of Lithuanian 19th c. social history and Czech-Lithuanian cultural relations. Dr. Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosalova also met with university professors and researchers, namely prof. Egidijus Aleksandravičius and Dr. Daiva Dapkutė from the Department of History at Vytautas Magnus University.

Dr. Halina Beresnevičiūtė Nosalova was visiting Vytautas Magnus University

Photographs from Dr. Halina Beresnevičiūtė Nosalova personal archive

On June 3-7 a lecturer from the Liepaja University (LiepU), Latvia,  mg. philol. Sandra Okuneva (Sandra Okuņeva), had a traineeship at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas. S. Okuneva is a director of the Bachelor's degree programme „Baltic Philology, Culture and Communication“ at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts and a phD student at the same time.  

During the visit, S. Okuneva got acquainted with the study programmes and research areas of the Faculty of Humanities of VMU. She worked in the VMU library collecting materials for her research and testing the possibilities of the library's reading rooms, which provide an environment conducive to study and research and comfortable working conditions. Lecturer also visited VMU Centre of Letonics. The chief coordinator of the Center Dr Kristina Vaisvalavičienė and ethnologist Dr Auksė Noreikaitė told the gest the main areas of  their investigations and  activities.

S. Okuneva, commenting on the results of the internship, expressed her gratitude to her Lithuanian colleagues for the warm welcome introducing the University and the city of Kaunas, as well as for the financial support for the internship provided by the project "Promotion of Cooperation between Foreign Baltic Studies Centres and Lithuanian Scientific and Educational Institutions". According to S. Okuneva, professional and informal communication not only strengthens the cooperation between our higher education institutions, but also enriches the content of studies at the Liepaja University.

S. Okuneva at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas

Photographs from S. Okuneva personal archive

On 2023 May 21-27 Tereza Kabelačova, a researcher at the Institute of General Linguistics and Baltic Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, visited Vilnius University. During the visit, she worked in the VU Central Library, collected materials for the Lithuanian courses and scientific research, got acquainted with the latest literature. In the meetings with VU colleagues, she discussed the development of studies and scientific research, cooperation in the field of Baltic studies and joint conferences.