Conferences 2024

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3rd International Scientific Conference “ONOMASTIC INVESTIGATIONS”

Latvian Language Institute (University of Latvia) invites to participate in the 3rd International Scientific Conference “Onomastic investigations”. Conference will be held at the University of Latvia on May 9–10, 2024. The conference is dedicated to our colleague Ojārs Bušs (1944–2017) who would have celebrated his 80th anniversary on April 28, 2024. The theme of the conference is “Variability of proper names.” We invite you to submit paper topics that address an area of research relevant the variability of place and personal names, as well as other proper names. We invite to look at their changes and changing processes, both in time and in perception, and under the influence of linguistic and extralinguistic factors.

Conference programme

Abstracts

Working languages: Latvian, English, German.
Duration of presentation: 20 minutes.
Please submit the application form and the abstract of your presentation (2500-3000 characters with spaces) by 31 January 2024 online.
Abstracts, regardless of the language of the presentation, must be submitted in English.
The notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by 1 March 2024.
After positive peer-review, articles based on the presentations will be published in the journal of the conference “Onomastic Investigations III”.

Participation fee
EUR 80 (paid by 20 March 2024) or EUR 90 (after 20 March 2024) for presenter.
EUR 60 (paid by 20 March 2024) or EUR 65 (after 20 March 2024) for each co-author participating in the conference.

Participation fee includes participating in the conference – a certificate of participation, participant’s materials, technical support at the conference and for the journal of the conference, rights to submit an article, coffee breaks, copy of the author of the journal of the conference.

Please transfer your participation fee to the following account:  
University of Latvia
Reg. No.: 3391000218
VAT Reg. No: LV90000076669
Address: Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga
Post code: LV-1586  

Bank account
SEB banka AS
SWIFT: UNLALV2X
IBAN: LV72UNLA0055003671805
Please indicate: OP III 2024 LaVI, conference fee, Name, Surname

Scientific Commitee
Dr. philol. Laimute Balode
PhD Anna Elizabete Griķe  
Dr. habil. philol. Irēna Ilga Jansone
Dr. philol. Sanda Rapa
Dr. philol. Renāte Siliņa-Piņķe
Dr. philol. Anta Trumpa

Organizing Commitee
Mg. paed. Gunita Arnava
Mg. hum. Ieva Auziņa  
Bc. hum. Laura Paula Jansone  
Mg. hum. Agita Kazakeviča
Mg. hum. Sintija Ķauķīte
Elīna Ķēniņa
Mg. hum. Kristīne Mežapuķe  
Mg. hum. Anete Ozola
Bc. hum. Odrija Ratfeldere
Mg. hum. Marita Silkāne
Mg. hum. Ilze Štrausa

E-mail:  onomastikaspetijumi@gmail.com

Commemorating the 151th anniversary of the academician Jānis Endzelīns

We invite you to participate in the conference commemorating the 151st anniversary of the birth of Jānis Endzelīns. The conference will take place in 2024 and is dedicated to family: ĢIMENE VALODĀ UN VALODA ĢIMENĒ / LANGUAGE IN THE FAMILY AND FAMILY LANGUAGE. Conference will be held at the University of Latvia on February 22­–23, 2024.

Conference programme

Abstracts

Recommended topics:

  • choice of personal name, family connections evident in place names and other proper names, use of pet names, diminutives and hypocorisms in the family;
  • kinship terms in ancient texts and modern lexicon, development and change of kinship terms, verbal portrait of the family in fiction and journalism;
  • kinship terms across subdialects, dialects used in the family (the generational aspect), the changing role of subdialects in the family, the Latgalian written language and the Livonian language in the family, the interaction and use of the standard language, subdialects and other languages in different communicative situations in the family;
  • the management and practice of language use in families in Latvia and the Latvian diaspora, public discussions about family language (childrens’ language, language use in mixed families in the Latvian diaspora, family language policy and management, representation of family languages in the media and language teaching materials, the influence of a multilingual environment on family language)

Working languages: Latvian, Lithuanian, English, German.
Duration of presentation: 20 minutes.
Please submit the application form and the abstract of your presentation (2500-3000 characters with spaces) by 15 January 2024 online.

The notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by 1 February 2024.
After positive peer-review, articles based on the presentations will be published in the journal Linguistica Lettica.

Participation fee: EUR 50 (by 15 February 2024)

Participation fee includes participating in the conference – a certificate of participation, participant’s materials, technical support at the conference and for the abstracts of the conference, rights to submit an article, coffee breaks, copy of the author of the journal Linguistica Lettica.

Please transfer your participation fee to the following account:
University of Latvia
Reg. No.: 3391000218
VAT Reg. No: LV90000076669
Address: Raiņa bulvāris 19, Riga
Post code: LV-1586

Bank account
SEB banka AS
SWIFT: UNLALV2X
IBAN: LV72UNLA0055003671805

 

Please indicate: ENDZ 2024 LaVI, conference fee, Name, Surname

 

Scientific Commitee

Dr. philol. Solvita Berra
Dr. philol. Ina Druviete
Dr. philol. Regīna Kvašīte
Dr. philol. Sanda Rapa
Dr. philol. Renāte Siliņa-Piņķe
Dr. philol. Anna Stafecka
Dr. philol. Agris Timuška
Dr. philol. Anta Trumpa
Dr. philol. Anna Vulāne

Organizing Commitee
Mg. paed. Gunita Arnava
Mg. hum. Ieva Auziņa
Mg. hum. Justīne Bondare
Bc. hum. Laura Paula Jansone
Mg. hum. Agita Kazakeviča
PhD Sintija Ķauķīte
Elīna Ķēniņa
Mg. hum. Kristīne Mežapuķe
Mg. hum. Anete Ozola
Bc. hum. Odrija Ratfeldere
Mg. hum. Marita Silkāne

E-mail: endzelinakonference@gmail.com