About the Congress

Date and location

The Congress will take place on October 22–25, 2025 at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University (Universito g. 5, Vilnius, Lithuania).

 

Organizing Committee

    • Birutė Kabašinskaitė
    • Ernesta Kazakėnaitė
    • Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
    • Jurgis Pakerys
    • Vytautas Rinkevičius
    • Daiva Sinkevičiūtė (Chair)
    • Miguel Villanueva Svensson

 

Invited speakers

    • Nicole Nau (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
    • Daniel Petit (Ecole normale supérieure, Ecole pratique des hautes études)
    • Ilja Seržant (Universität Potsdam)
    • Pēteris Vanags (Stockholms universitet, Latvijas Universitāte)

 

Working languages

    • Lithuanian
    • Latvian
    • English

 

Presentation time

    • invited speakers: 40 min
    • discussion: 20 min
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    • other speakers: 20 min
    • discussion: 10 min

 

Congress fee

Before September 15, 2025:

    • 140 EUR – researchers with permanent position
    • 90 EUR – researchers without permanent position, PhD students, workshop organizers
    • 90 EUR – listeners participating in the Congress dinner and cultural program who wish to receive a certificate of attendance

After September 15, 2025:

    • 160 EUR – researchers with permanent position
    • 110 EUR – researchers without permanent position, PhD students, participants without a paper, workshop organizers
    • 110 EUR – listeners participating in the Congress dinner and cultural program who wish to receive a certificate of attendance

 

Please transfer the payment here:

    • bank account: LT247044060001101392
    • recipient: Vilnius University
    • bank: AB SEB bankas, Vilnius, Lithuania, SWIFT: CBVILT2X

 

In the payment description, please write FilF-2025-10-0014 followed by your surname.

Only those who participate in person need to pay the participation fee. Therefore, if a paper was written by several authors, only those who participate in person must pay.

A participant reading more than one paper should pay one participation fee.

Listeners who will not participate in the Congress dinner and cultural program and who do not wish to receive a document confirming their participation do not have to pay.

 

Workshops

The Congress will consist of a General Section and a number of Workshops. 

The workshops should be organized by groups of two to three scholars, who will prepare a description of the workshop outlining the main issues to be addressed. The workshop organizers are asked to submit their proposals by completing the Workshop Proposal Form on this website. Once accepted, they will be responsible for publishing a call for papers, evaluating the submitted proposals, and informing the organizing committee of their decisions.

The Call for Papers for accepted workshops will be published in February 2025.

 

Deadlines

    • Submission of workshop proposals – by December 15, 2024
    • Notification of accepted workshops – by January 15, 2025
    • Submission of abstracts – by June 1, 2025 (extended: by June 15, 2025)
    • Notification of accepted papers – by July 1, 2025