2025
January
11 January 2025, Philadelphia, USA – Panel “Names and World-building in Fantasy & Science Fictional Universes” during the 2025 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
February
22 February 2025 – The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society (via Zoom)
23–26 February 2025, Salzburg, Austria – Symposium “In Nomine – Name and Naming in the Middle Ages“ (Symposium “In nomine – Name und Benennung im Mittelalter”)
27–28 February 2025, Kerala, India – National seminar on “Significance of Onomastics in the Indian context”
March
14 March 2025, Enschede, Nederland – Symposium “Naming Public Space” (Naamgeving Openbare Ruimte)
April
2–4 April 2025, Uppsala, Sweden – Conference “Names in Context: Sociopragmatic Aspects of the Use of Proper Names“ (Namen im Kontext: Soziopragmatische Aspekte des Gebrauchs von Eigennamen)
7–10 April 2025, Prague, Czechia – 5th Czech Onomastic Conference (5. česká onomastická konference)
11 April 2025, Zurich, Switzerland – Workshop “Swiss name research: Quo vadis?” (Schweizer Namenforschung: Quo vadis?)
11–14 April 2025, Stirling, UK – The 31 SNSBI (Society of Name Studies in Britain and Ireland) Annual Conference
28 April – 2 May 2025 – Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names “Advancing geographical names standardization through inclusive, culturally-informed and evidence-based solutions to support sustainable development”
May
21–23 May 2025, Halmstad, Sweden – NORNA Conference “Names, Norms, and Norm-Breaking” (Namn, normer och normbrott)
22–23 May 2025, Ukraine, online – 21st All-Ukrainian onomastic conference with international participation (Всеукраїнська (з міжнародною участю) ономастична конференція)
31 May – 2 June 2025, Toronto, Canada – 59th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) “Renaming in our changing World”
June
11–14 June 2025, Turku, Finland – Panel “Places in the making: from everyday practices to top-down actions” at the 36th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference
12 June 2025, online – Meeting of the International Network for Personal Names Research “Given names in different countries: similarities, differences, historical and contemporary developments”
25–27 June 2025, Gqeberha, South Africa – Panel at the conference “Traditions, transformations, and African thought: Imagining Linguistics in Africa for the 21st century”
July
2–4 July 2025, Trento, Italy – international conference “Toponyms of historical linguistic minorities in Italy” (Toponimi delle minoranze linguistiche storiche in Italia)
August
25–30 August 2025, Paris, France – Thematic block “Slavic onymic landscapes” at the XVIIth International Congress of Slavists
September
25–27 September 2025, Katowice, Poland – 24th International and national onomastic conference MiOkO (XXIV Międzynarodowa i Ogólnopolska Konferencja Onomastyczna)
24–26 September 2025, Potenza, Italy – XXVIII International Symposium on Onomastics & Literature (XXVIII Convegno Internazionale “Onomastica & Letteratura)
29–30 September 2025, Mainz, Germany – 10th Conference on Names in Mainz “Migration and onomastic” (Migrationsonomastik: Personennamen im Kontext von Wanderungsbewegungen)
October
1–3 October 2025, Astrakhan, Russia – XXIII International Conference on the Names in Volga Region (Ономастика Поволжья)
4 October 2025, Pontevedra, Spain – 10th Galician Onomastics Conference (X Xornada de Onomástica Galega)
6–7 October 2025, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA – workshop “What’s in a Name? Exploring Place Names as Forms of Social and Geographic Storytelling“
25 October 2025, online – conference SNSBI “Names Abroad – Names From Abroad”
November
3–7 November 2025, Belo Horizonte, Brasil – 1st Interonoma Conference (Congresso Internacional de Onomástica) + Symposium “Literary Worlds and the Impact of Names”
7–9 November 2025, Kolkata, India – XLIV Annual Congress of the Place Names Society of India
8 November 2025, online – SPNS Autumn Conference
13–14 November 2025, Lyon, France – International Conference “Naming, Renaming: the Power of the Name in English-Speaking Cultures and Literature”
20–21 November 2025, Paris, France – International workshop “The social life of names and naming practices in migration contexts“
26–29 November 2025, Clarens, South Africa – 8th International Symposium on Place Names (ISPN) “Harmonising toponymic heritage: balancing standardisation and local diversity” + 26 November 2025 Workshop: Ethical principles of doing toponymic research with Deaf communities
December
2026
January
8–11 January 2026, Toronto, Canada – the ANS panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention “Onomastic Rhetoric: Acts of Naming in Real and/or Imagined Worlds”
26–29 January 2026, Madrid, Spain – panel at “LIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística” on the topic “The Morphosyntax of Proper Names”
February
2–4 February 2026, Valencia, Spain – colloquium “Valencian Surnames: Documentation, Evolution, Distribution and Etymology, with Particular Attention to Singular Lineages” (Els cognoms valencians: documentació, evolució, distribució i etimologia, amb especial atenció als llinatges singulars)
21 February 2026, online – annual meeting of the American Name Society
March
23–24 March 2026, Montevideo, Uruguay – workshop “Non-Bare Proper Names III: Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective”
April
May
8–10 May 2026, Encamp, Andorra – 51st colloquium of the Societat d’Onomàstica (Toponímia i antroponímia pirinenca, relleu positiupirinenca, relleu positiu i hidronímiai hidronímia)
19–21 May 2026, Reykjavík, Iceland – 51st NORNA Symposium “Names and Cultural Heritage” (Namn och kulturarv)
June
25–27 June 2026, Mainz, Germany – International symposium “Names in the Economy VIII” – “Ergonyms and Multilingualism”
July
6–9 July 2026, Leeds, Great Britain – panel on “Medieval Onomastics” at the International Medieval Congress
August
24–28 August 2026, Helsinki, Finland – the 3rd ICOS Summer School
September
3–5 September, Rennes, France – XXIe Colloque d’onomastique
16–18 September, Prague, Czechia – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition (ILANSCO) 2026 “Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict“
October
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