{"id":623,"date":"2025-04-11T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\/?page_id=623"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:31:35","slug":"riga-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\/riga-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u012bga 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>12th Baltic Student Conference \u201cBridges in the Baltics\u201d<\/strong> was organized by the<strong> Faculty of Humanities at the University of Latvia <\/strong>and took place in<strong> on October\u00a09\u201310, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025_post_01-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025_post_01-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025_post_01-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025_post_01-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025_post_01-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>The aim of the conference is to bring together students whose studies and research are related to the languages and cultures of the three Baltic States. It offers an opportunity to present academic work, exchange ideas with fellow students from other universities and countries, and establish new contacts across the region and beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference hosted <strong>48 students <\/strong>from <strong>15 universities <\/strong>and <strong>8 countries<\/strong>. In addition to student presentations, 3 plenary lectures were held by guest speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/20251009_2043200-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference welcomed everyone who is currently pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s or PhD degree at any university in the Baltic States or elsewhere to submit proposals on any of the following aspects of the Baltic countries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>language and literature;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>history, folklore and culture;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>arts, film and music;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>modern technology and innovation in the Baltic societies;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>political and social developments in the Baltic region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025-programme_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PROGRAM<\/a> <\/strong>(updated October 7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/Baltic-Bridges-2025-ABSTRACTS-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ABSTRACTS<\/strong> <\/a>(Updated October 7) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\/photos-riga-2025\/\">PHOTOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:50px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-light-color\">PLENARY SPEAKERS<\/mark><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dr. philol. ANDRA KALNA\u010cA<\/strong>. <em>DATABASE OF LATVIAN MORPHEMES AND DERIVATIONAL MODELS: FROM IDEAS TO RESULTS<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-631\" style=\"width:306px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/548209814_1230555659114369_6932729907300041388_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Andra Kalna\u010da is a tenured professor in Latvian linguistics at the Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (Riga). Her research interests include morphology, morphosyntax, morphemics and morphophonology, functional grammar, modality, and evidentiality. Her main work focuses on the Latvian grammar and grammatical theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is the author of several monographs and edited volumes, including \u201cMorf\u0113mika un morfonolo\u0123ija\u201d (2004), \u201cMorfolo\u0123ijas stilistika\u201d (2011), \u201cA Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar\u201d (2014), \u201cLatvian Grammar\u201d (2021; with Ilze Lokmane), and \u201cInsights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages. Contacts, Comparisons and Changes\u201d (2022; eds. Helle Metslang, Miina Norvik, Andra Kalna\u010da). Andra Kalna\u010da is the editor-in-chief of the journal \u201cValoda: noz\u012bme un forma \/ Language: Meaning and Form\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignright has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"952\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/554860917_1238430324993569_9084518832760355450_n-1-952x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/554860917_1238430324993569_9084518832760355450_n-1-952x1024.jpg 952w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/554860917_1238430324993569_9084518832760355450_n-1-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/554860917_1238430324993569_9084518832760355450_n-1-768x826.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/554860917_1238430324993569_9084518832760355450_n-1.jpg 967w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0Dr. phil. VILIUS DRANSEIKA.\u00a0<em>IN DEFENSE OF FORGETTING<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilius Dranseika is a philosopher at Jagiellonian University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics in Krak\u00f3w, Poland. His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of philosophical concepts and theories. Recently, the main themes of his work have been personal identity, death, and memory. He is also interested in computational approaches \u2013 ranging from natural language processing to citation analysis \u2013 applied to philosophy, including its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JAYDE WILL. Trends in Literary Translation in the Baltic Countries 2015-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\" style=\"width:384px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/558297478_1243228184513783_987712658494486365_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayde Will is a literary agent working for the Latvian Literature Platform, which promotes authors from Latvia. In addition, he is a literary translator working from Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latgalian, and has translated close to 30 books ranging from academic works on history to novels and poetry. He received the 2020 Silver Ink Translation Award for Best Translation from Latvian into a Foreign Language for his translation of Alberts Bels\u2019s novel Insomnia (Parthian Press, 2020), and the 2024 Ostana Prize for Translation for his work promoting Latgalian literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:balticbridges2025@gmail.com\">balticbridges2025@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\">www.sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/balticbridge\">www.facebook.com\/balticbridge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th Baltic Student Conference \u201cBridges in the Baltics\u201d was organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Latvia and took place in on October\u00a09\u201310, 2025. 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