The following topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Sarbievius: works, translations, reception;
• Forms of piety and religious policy during the Baroque era;
• Writers, publishers, readers in the Baroque period;
• Private and public correspondence;
• Biography, hagiography, history;
• Rhetoric as a world-view: literary theory, education, transformation;
• Selfhood and otherness;
• Body, gender, senses;
• Performative literary culture;
• Affetti theory;
• Post-Baroque: tradition, reinterpretation, revival;
• Neo-Baroque in Literature.

Submission guidelines

• Your abstract should be for a 20 minute presentation in English.
• All submissions are done through ConfTool page of the conference.
• The acceptable word range for the abstract is 250-300 words.

Registration

You can submit your proposal on the conference's ConfTool page welcome.barocon2025.flf.vu.lt. To submit, please register and then you will be able to provide the title of the proposed paper, an abstract (up to 300 words) in English, and keywords. In the field Remark/Message from the Authors you can also submit short biography of the author with key publications (maximum three).

Abstract submission deadline is 10th January, 2025. Abstracts will be considered and reviewed by the Conference organisers. We anticipate communicating decisions on submissions by 20th March 2025. 

The conference programme will be published by 31 May 2025. We expect to publish the conference proceedings in a separate book and/or journals Senoji Lietuvos literatūra (Early Lithuanian Literature) as well as Literatūra (Literature)(indexed in Scopus).

In case of problems with ConfTool, please send your proposals and the above information to .