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.

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 15 January 2024 online: https://lavi.lu.lv/onomastikas-petijumu-anketa/  

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: 

for presenters and co-authors 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 

Mg. hum. 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   

Mg. hum. Anna Elizabete Griķe 

Bc. hum. Laura Paula Jansone   

Mg. hum. Agita Kazakeviča 

Mg. hum. Sintija Ķauķīte 

Elīna Ķēniņa   

Mg. hum. Anete Ozola 

Bc. hum. Odrija Ratfeldere 

Mg. hum. Marita Silkāne 

Mg. hum. Ilze Štrausa 

Information about the conference: https://lavi.lu.lv/en/conferences-2024/  

E-mail:  onomastikaspetijumi@gmail.com