2026
Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy hosted the 15th International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference “The Region: History, Culture, Language”, bringing together Lithuanian and international scholars for meaningful academic discussions on region, history, culture, language, identity and diverse ways of knowing.
The conference participants were welcomed by Prof. Dr Vilmantė Pakalniškienė, Pro-Rector for Organizational Development and Community Affairs at Vilnius University, Prof. Dr Renata Bilbokaitė, Director of Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Regina Kvašytė, Chairperson of the Conference Scientific Committee. The presentations of the plenary session addressed a wide range of topics, including the lexicographic study of local speech, neologisms in Lithuanian fiction, the preservation of the language in the context of a national minority, as well as positionality, epistemic justice and decolonial perspectives in the international classroom.
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Initial Concept of Lexicographic Processing of the Local Speech of Štrigova
Prof. Dr Đuro Blažeka; Assoc. Prof. Dr Vladimir Legac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
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Neologisms in the Fiction of Lithuanian Writers
Assoc. Prof. Dr Jolanta Vaskelienė (Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy, Lithuania)
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The Role of Croatian Lecturers at Eötvös József College in Baja in Past and Present in Preserving the Croatian Language of the Croatian National Minority in Hungary
Assist. Prof. Dr Morana Plavac (Eötvös József College, Hungary)
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Positionality, Epistemic Justice, and the Decoloniality in the Classrooms as an Act of Resistance
Tatiana de Jesús Buelvas Baldiris (Šiauliai State University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania, King Juan Carlos University, Spain)
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Photos by organisers
Pēdējās izmaiņas: pirmdiena, 2026. gada 18. maijs, 12:50
