CALL FOR PAPERS: ANTIQUITAS VIVA 2016

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL JANUARY 25, 2016

A popular Latin phrase says that words have value as much as money (verba valent sicut nummi). The word and words in the humanities are perceived as a nominal currency the movement of which is under the auspices of the philological thought.

The International Classical Philology Biennial Conference Antiquitas Viva, paying special attention to classical languages, welcomes its participants to research, describe and share the experience and conclusions about various manifestations of the word, from its functioning in a dictionary and “behind the scene” of compilation of the dictionary till the relationships between the word and the text.

Words, considering the social and cultural relations of a particular historical period, create texts and contexts. The variety of the created meanings should be reflected in the dictionary, i.e. in the tool that records the grammatical and semantic picture of the language. Various spheres of the humanities (linguistics, literary studies, history, philosophy), working together, can offer a versatile description of these questions that might lead towards an interesting scholarly discussion.      

You are welcome to submit a filled-in application form (APPLICATION FORM) and the summary of your presentation (please refer to the next page) to the organizing committee of the conference until January 25, 2016. Both the application form and the summary should be sent to the following e-mail: antiquitasviva2016@gmail.com.

The notification of acceptance will be sent until February 8, 2016.

Languages of the conference: Latvian and English.

Proposed duration of presentation is up to 20 minutes.

The organizing committee provides the possibility to publish papers based on presentations of the conference in an edited volume ANTIQUITAS VIVA 5: Studia Classica (published by the Publishing House of the University of Latvia).

Paper submission guidelines will be provided during the conference.

Participation fee: 50 EUR (bank account information will be sent together with the notification of acceptance of the presentation).

For additional information, please, write to antiquitasviva2016@gmail.com or call the Department of Classical Philology: +371 6703 4856 (Prof., Dr.philol. Ilze Rūmniece, Doc., Dr.philol. Brigita Cīrule, Lect., Dr.philol. Ilona Gorņeva).

Address:

Department of Classical Philology

Faculty of Humanities

University of Latvia

Visvalža street 4a, Riga LV 1050