Polish Language, Culture Study and Didactics Centre
Faculty of Philology
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (Lithuania)
Department of Philological Research “The East – The West”
Faculty of Philology
University of Bialystok (Poland)
kindly invite to
the International Scientific Conference
LITHUANIAN AND POLISH BILINGUAL WRITERS
THE ISSUE OF BILINGUALISM
IN LITHUANIAN AND POLISH CULTURE
LITERATURE – CULTURE – LANGUAGE
The conference will be held in Lithuania on 8–9 October 2015
and hosted by the Faculty of Philology
of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and
Czeslaw Milosz Cultural Centre in Sheteniai (Šeteniai).
The conference will focus on a new approach to the issue of bilingualism in the works of Lithuanian
and Polish writers.
Research issues include the following topics:
 Lithuanian and Polish bilingual writers, their works and biographies – from the times of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania through the 19th century to the modern times;
 historical and cultural contexts in bilingual writers’ works;
 the issue of identity in the works of bilingual writers;
 topics, metaphors, symbols;
 the image of man, nature and history in bilingual writers’ works;
 poetics of bilingual writers’ texts, their choice of genre: poetry, prose, drama;
 bilingual writers’ linguistic, cultural and ethnic problems of convergence and interference;
 the Lithuanian and Polish languages as bilingual writers’ means of expression;
 Lithuanian – Polish bilingualism in the context of contemporary comparativistics;
 bilingual writers’ role in the synthesis of Lithuanian and Polish national literature;
 questions of bilingual writers’ reception;
 Lithuanian and Polish bilingual writers among other cultures and languages;
 the book, the journal, the library as the space of bilingualism.
Conference languages: Lithuanian, Polish, English, Russian.
Registration fee – 100 euro (the fee covers organizational and transport costs, meals during the
conference, excursions, etc.). The registration fee is paid on the conference site.
Conference participants make arrangements concerning their arrival and accommodation on their own.
Recommended hotels:
LEU guest house (A. Vivulskio St. 36, Vilnius): 15-30 euro per person per night, breakfast is not
included.
Ecotel Vilnius (Slucko str. 8, Vilnius): standard single room from 30 euro per person per night, standard
double room from 36 euro per person per night, standard triple room from 45 euro per person per night.
Breakfast is included.
During the conference, the excursion to Šeteniai is planned. The second day workshops will be organised
in Šeteniai.
All participants are kindly requested to submit the abstracts of their paper, which will be translated into
Lithuanian.
Submission of registration forms with abstracts of presentations is due by 5 June 2015 by these e-mails:
for participants from Lithuania andrey.baranov@leu.lt
for participants from Poland and other countries bilingwizm@wp.pl
Conference materials will be published in the peer-reviewed collective monograph in the framework of
the scientific journal Colloquia Orientalia Bialostocensia in 2016.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vilnius and Šeteniai!
Prof. Habil. Dr. Andrey Baranov
Prof. Habil. Dr. Jarosław Ławski
Conference Scientific Committee
Prof. Dr. Gintautas Kundrotas – Chairman (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Žydronė Kolevinskienė (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irena Masoit (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Prof. Dr. Sigutė Radzevičienė (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dainius Vaitiekūnas (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Prof. Mieczysław Jackiewicz (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)
Prof. Aleksander Fiut (The Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Prof. Halina Krukowska (University of Bialystok)
Prof. Michał Kuziak (University of Warsaw)
Prof. Agnieszka Czjkowska (The Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa)
Conference Organizing Committee
Prof. Habil. Dr. Andrey Baranov – Chairman (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Prof. Habil. Dr. Jarosław Ławski – Chairman (University of Bialystok)
Mgr. Monika Jurkowska – Secretary (University of Bialystok)
Mgr. Piotr Drozdowski – Secretary (University of Bialystok)
Dr. Henrika Sokolovska – Head of the Polish Language, Culture Study and Didactics Centre (Lithuanian
University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Dvilevič (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Romuald Narunec (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Halina Turkevič (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius)
Dr. Łukasz Zabielski (Łukasz Górnicki Podlasian Public Library in Białystok)
Dr. Anna Janicka (University of Bialystok)