<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">From <span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Milda Kurpniece <milda.kurpniece@lu.lv></span><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; font-weight: 400;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; font-weight: 400;">Dear Colleagues, </span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">We invite you to participate in the joint international conference “</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"><b>Livonica 3 + Minor Finnic Languages 2 = 5</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">”. It will be held in the University of Latvia Livonian Institute, in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"><b>Rīga, Latvia on 26-28 June 2024</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">. The conference aims to bring historians, archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, folklorists, linguists and other researchers together to explore the Central Baltic area, Livonians and minor Finnic languages. The special focus will be towards contacts, and we also welcome areal and contact studies. The invited speakers will be Kristiina Tambets, Rogier Blokland, and Jurgis Pakerys. Conference languages are English and Livonian. </span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">Please submit an anonymous, one-page abstract - in PDF format only - in one of the conference languages to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:liv@lu.lv" id="OWA973ba365-8bb2-e0c7-f841-87ddc687b9d6" class="x_x_Hyperlink x_x_SCXW206056118 x_x_BCX0 x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">liv@lu.lv</a> by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"><b>18 February 2024</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">. </span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"> </span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">Notification to authors: by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"><b>31 March 2024</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">. </span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"> </span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">The conference website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.livonian.lv/en/activities/livonica-3-minor-finnic-languages-2-5/" target="_blank" id="OWA6cb10d20-c58d-c30d-5794-beccdb3563b5" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">https://www.livonian.lv/en/activities/livonica-3-minor-finnic-languages-2-5/</a> </span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);"> </span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">If you have any further questions, please contact us via email (</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:milda.kurpniece@lu.lv" id="OWA845e5bbf-b07f-fbbe-0b10-353749261d5e" class="x_x_Hyperlink x_x_SCXW206056118 x_x_BCX0 x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="2" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;">milda.kurpniece@lu.lv</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 16.1875px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);">). </span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>