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We are pleased to invite you to the 58th Linguistics Colloquium titled “Linguistic Diversity in the World and for the World”. The Conference will take place at Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, on September 20-22, 2023.

We are very happy that our plenary speakers this year come from different countries. Their talks will focus on the following topics:

• Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp) “Negative and free choice indefinites: a reappraisal”
• Klaus Geyer (Odense) “Ungleiche Schwestern? Über Sprachvergleiche am Beispiel Dänisch-Deutsch”
• Jurgis Pakerys (Vilnius) “Baltic causatives in the Circum-Baltic context”
• Lina Plaušinaitytė (Vilnius) “Welche Art litauisch-deutsches Wörterbuch brauchen wir?”

We invite researchers from any country of the world and from all linguistic backgrounds to submit contributions related to linguistic diversity. 

You can find all relevant information on the conference page > 

Conference languages: German, French, English

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submission and registration: May 12, 2023

Notification of acceptance: June 01, 2023

Deadline of paying the Conference fee: August 01, 2023

Online publication of the Conference program: August 25, 2023

Centre for Scandinavian Studies is happy to announce a neurolinguistics seminar, held by The Lund Neurolinguistics group at our centre on 31st March, from 9:30 to 12:30, in Room 314 A-B. The topic of the seminar is Neurolinguistic Discoveries in Nordic Languages: Perception and Prediction of Speech Input. The event will be held in English.

Please also find the event program and abstracts attached >>

You can read about The Lund Neurolinguistics group here >>

Dear colleagues at the Faculty of Philology and their friends all over the world,

March 11 is a day when we all speak about our freedom, our youth and our future. Freedom—because our freedom is about the freedom in living in our country, working for it, making it more beautiful and happy every day. Youth—because our independence, restored in 1990, is young, 33 years of age; some people born during those years are even younger. Future—because the University and its values are all about the future of the country and the future of the world. We are moving into the future relying on the lessons of history, on respectable experienced people, our colleagues, all together. Let us celebrate March 11!

Kind regards,

Professor Inesa Šeškauskienė
Dean of the Faculty of Philology

International academic conference dedicated to the 700th Anniversary of Vilnius 

Venue: Vilnius University Faculty of Philology.

Date: 29-30 May 2023.

Scholars, doctoral students and young researchers from the international Baltic studies centres, and Lithuanian researchers, are invited to participate in the international academic conference “Urban Cultural Space: The Baltic Narratives”. The purpose of the conference is to present and discuss the latest research on urban literature and culture, urban identity and memory narratives of the Baltic region, and to analyse the multi-ethnic culture and literature of Vilnius in the context of other Baltic cities.

We propose the following main topics for presentations:

• Urban literature of the Baltic region
• Vilnius literary and cultural discourse
• Narratives of identity and memory of the Baltic cities
• Cultural and literary connections of the cities in the Baltic region
• Baltic images of urban space and their comparative studies 

Conference languages: Lithuanian and English

Send the title and abstract of your presentation (up to 300 words) by March 12, 2023 to . We will confirm your participation by March 20, 2023. More information >>

We present to you a summary of the past activities and accomplishements of the Faculty's MotherNet research group. Read below and find out more at MotherNet website >>

We are happy to announce a guest lecture by Dr. Sirkku Latomaa, University of Tampere, Finland, on Tuesday the 28th of February at 15.00–16.30 (including discussion), the auditorium 314AB. 

Sirkku Latomaa‘s guest lecture will be in English, and it is open to all students and the whole staff. 

The past and present of linguistic diversity in Finland

Migration has always been a part of human history. Finns have moved around the world, and people from all over the world have moved to Finland. Until very recently, however,  Finland has been regarded as an especially homogeneous and monolingual part of the world. Is there some basis for this myth, or should it be buried as inaccurate? In my lecture, I will look at linguistic diversity in Finland over time, examining both established and more recent language minorities (including Lithuanians in Finland). I will also discuss the linguistic rights of minorities and the current citizens' initiative the purpose of which is to improve the visibility of multilingualism in demographic statistics.

Sirkku Latomaa’s research and publications focus on multilingualism in the family and school contexts, minority languages, language rights, language awareness, and language-in-education policies. In 2021-2022 she was involved in a national evaluation project implemented by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre. The aim of the project was to shed light on the state and effectivenss of education meant for newly arrived pupils with migrant background in Finnish schools.

Welcome to the event!

Together with a young writer from Ukraine, Kateryna Pylypchuk, we kindly invite you to a crucially important event that will take place in the Writer’s Hall (Vilnius University), on February 24th. The event will start at 6 p.m, but we ask you to come earlier and take free places.  

The first part of the event will consist of a "The War That Changed US" book presentation, where you’ll hear several war stories experienced by ordinary people artfully described by Kateryna Pylypchuk.

The second part will be marked by a little extract from a new performance by ummsbiaus with live music, called DODOMU, for violin, cello, piano, algorithmic synthesiser and two female voices. This is a reflection about the relativity of time and space, it is all about remembrance and oblivion. 

February 24 is the day when a full-scale invasion began. And this terrible moment has transformed the world forever. That is why we want to share our feelings with you, to have an insightful discussion and to meditate together listening to the tremulous sounds of strings. 

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Once you decide to visit our event, we kindly ask you to register via Google Forms in order that we may calculate an approximate number of books to be brought from Ukraine. The book can be preordered. See all the details in our event and in Google Forms here >>

The Embassy of Spain in Lithuania has the honor to announce that our Film Club in Spanish is coming back on the 9th of February at 18:00 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Vilnius with the film “Mataharis” by Icíar Bollaín. We will have the honour to have the film presented by Aistė Račaitytė, Director of the programme of Kino Pavasaris film festival and film critic.

Synopsis: Carmen, Inés and Eva are private detectives, but they do not wear a hat or carry a gun, instead they go shopping, change diapers and try to keep their partner. While they work revealing other people's secrets, the three will discover that there are their own lies that they have not known how to see and truths that it is better not to reveal. Cast: María Vázquez, Najwa Nimri, Nuria González, Tristán Ulloa, Diego Martín, Antonio de la Torre.

Five films will be shown during months from February to June, on the second Thursday of every month. Further details about the screening and the films >

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