The Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin is pleased to announce the forthcoming edition of its Annual International Conference (ConfIBL2025), which marks the Institute’s 83rd anniversary. The Conference will take place on 15th and 16th May 2025 in Sofia.

The Conference has established itself as a prestigious forum for sharing the latest achievements and trends in all areas of the study of the Bulgarian language in Bulgaria and around the world, as well as the achievements of the nine departments of the Institute, including research carried out under national and international projects and in cooperation with scholarly centres in Bulgaria and abroad.

Submission Guidelines

Papers are submitted anonymously in Bulgarian, English or Russian. They should not exceed 15 standard pages (inclusding the list of references). Papers submitted to the conference will be provisionally accepted after a positive conclusion from an anonymous peer review.

It is required that papers are formatted according to the instructions published on the conference website (//ibl.bas.bg/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Instructions_for_Authors_BG_2025.pdf). (A Word template can be downloaded here.) To preserve anonymity,  names of the authors and thei affiliation should be omitted in the initial submission. Self-citations, which may violate anonymity, should be avoided.

Papers should be submitted in .pdf format via the the EasyChair conference management system (after logging in, you need to select the role of ‘author’ and then ‘Make a new submission’). Authors who do not have an EasyChair account can sign up at: https://easychair.org/account/signup. Please note that the deadline for submitting the full text of the papers is January 15, 2025. During submission, each author must choose from the list of topics the ones that are most relevant for the paper.

List of Topics

• Contemporary Bulgarian Language
• Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography
• Terminology and Terminography
• History of Bulgarian Language
• Bulgarian Dialectology
• Bulgarian Etymology
• Bulgarian Onomastics
• Ethnolinguistics
• General and Comparative Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics

Contact

Email: confibl@ibl.bas.bg

Conference Webpage: https://ibl.bas.bg/confibl2025/