diff --git a/app/controllers/personal_conferences_controller.rb b/app/controllers/personal_conferences_controller.rb
index 91ddc54..d6e3845 100644
--- a/app/controllers/personal_conferences_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/personal_conferences_controller.rb
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class PersonalConferencesController < ApplicationController
                     'url' => '/' + params[:locale] + params[:url],
                     'select_text' => select_text,
                     'search_text' => search_text,
-                    'search_value' => params[:keywords].gsub(/\"/,''),
+                    'search_value' => params[:keywords].to_s.gsub(/\"/,''),
                     'csrf_value' => csrf_value },
       'headers' => headers,
       'total_pages' => writing_conferences_total_pages,