The 8th International Conference
On 20-21 November 2025, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Klaipeda University will host the 8th International Conference "The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first collection of Lithuanian folk songs - Ludwik Rhesa's "Dainos, oder littauische Volkslieder" (Königsberg, 1825).
The conference theme and dedication open up opportunities for a variety of presentations. This event is dedicated to the latest research on the interaction of tradition and modernity in the indicated areas and to a scholarly dialogue on the significance of folk creativity and culture, both from a historical perspective and in the current context.
We kindly invite You to participate: The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity | Klaipeda University
Registration form: Konferencijos „Tradicijos ir modernybės sąveika 2025“ dalyvio anketa / Application form for "The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity 2025" conference
12th Baltic Student Conference
The 12th Baltic Student Conference "Bridges in the Baltics" will take place this year in Rīga, Latvia.
We warmly invite students in the fields of Baltic linguistics, philology, literature, folklore, and culture to submit their abstracts by June 30, 2025, using the online form below:
https://forms.gle/3wVJV6u6DPtRQDsK7
Lithuanian Language and Culture Summer Course 2025
Dates: July 7, 2025 – August 5, 2025
Formats: Kaunas | Vilnius | Online
Registration deadlines:
- April 18, 2025 for tuition fee waivers (for online courses) or scholarships (for contact courses) candidates.
- May 1, 2025 for paying candidates who need a visa (for contact courses).
- June 1, 2025 for paying candidates who don’t need a visa (for contact or online courses).
For more information see here.
applications for scholarships for Lithuanian short-term studies are now open
15 scholarships are available for foreigners and foreigners of Lithuanian origin (except Russian and Belarusian citizens).
30 scholarships are availabe to students, teachers and researchers from Lithuanian Language (Baltic) Centres (except Russian and Belarusian citizens).
Deadline to apply for the scholarship: 6 May 2025.
For more information on eligibility requirements and application procedure see here.
For more information on semester studies see here.
14th International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference
A research group “Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Research” organises an international interdisciplinary scientific conference "The Region: History, Culture, Language" on the 15th–16th of May, 2025.
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.
Conference languages: Lithuanian, English.
The conference will be held at the Šiauliai Academy (Vytauto st. 84, Šiauliai) and online via the Microsoft Teams.
Articles, prepared based on the conference presentations, will be published in the online journal Acta humanitarica academiae Saulensis (ISSN 2783-6789).
Registration forms including a summary of the presentation (200–300 words) should be submitted by email: regina.kvasyte@sa.vu.lt till the 17th of April, 2025.
Authors will be informed about the inclusion of their papers into the conference programme till the 30th of April, 2025.
Lithuanian language and culture summer courses
We are pleased to invite foreigners and foreign Lithuanians to register for Lithuanian language and culture summer courses!
Please complete the registration form by 20 April.
CALL FOR PAPERS 14th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BALTICISTS
We invite you to submit papers for the 14th International Congress of Balticists on current topics in Baltic linguistics and related fields. The International Congress of Balticists is organized every five years in Vilnius or Riga; in 2025 it will take place at Vilnius University.
Abstracts can be submitted either for the general session or for one of these workshops:
• At the intersection of historical morphology and syntax: The Baltic verb
from a diachronic perspective
• Baltic-language digital resources in grammar research
• Current topics in Baltic phonetics and phonology
• Digital approaches to Old Baltic linguistic monuments
• Germanic–Balto-Slavic: Phylum or phantom?
• Latgalian and other regional varieties of the Baltic languages:
Interdisciplinary solutions and research opportunities
• Meaning in Baltic languages: A cognitive perspective
• Prosody and segments in Baltic comparative grammar
• The tradition and perspective of Baltic onomastic research
Abstracts are to be submitted on the Congress website: https://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/en/abstract-submission
Deadlines:
• Submission of abstracts – by June 1, 2025
• Notification of accepted papers – by July 1, 2025
30th international scientific conference of Jonas Jablonskis
We kindly invite you to participate in the 30th international scientific conference of Jonas Jablonskis “Language and Linguistics: Continuity of Tradition and Emerging Trends”.
Please submit participant forms and abstracts (200–300 words) here: https://forms.gle/gRULm1Do3pxTYtyLA. Deadline for the submission of registration form and abstract – 20 May 2025.
For more information please visit website https://lki.lt/kvieciame-dalyvauti-30-ojoje.../
The 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics "Languages and People"
The 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics Languages and People will be held from 25–27 September 2025 at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University.
Paper proposals are welcome across a range of disciplines, including sociolinguistics, language policy, discourse analysis, translation, pragmatics, language teaching and learning, language testing, language acquisition, lexicography, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and more.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 17 February 2025.
For more information, click here: https://litaka.lt
Contact person: lina.vaskeviciene@flf.vu.lt
The 8th International Conference "The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity"
On 20-21 November 2025, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Klaipeda University will host the 8th International Conference "The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity", dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first collection of Lithuanian folk songs - Ludwik Rhesa's "Dainos, oder littauische Volkslieder" (Königsberg, 1825).
The conference theme and dedication open up opportunities for a variety of presentations. This event is dedicated to the latest research on the interaction of tradition and modernity in the indicated areas and to a scholarly dialogue on the significance of folk creativity and culture, both from a historical perspective and in the current context.
We kindly invite You to participate: The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity | Klaipeda University
Registration form: Konferencijos „Tradicijos ir modernybės sąveika 2025“ dalyvio anketa / Application form for "The Interaction of Tradition and Modernity 2025" conference