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CfP: The XXth All-Ukrainian and International Onomastic Conference

On May 18-19, 2023, the XX All-Ukrainian and International Onomastic Conference will be held at the Institute of Philology of Ivan Franko Zhytomyr State University in a remote format (Zoom). This conference will be dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Prof. Vasyl Nimchuk, Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.  The working languages of...

CfP “NITE 7: Names In The Economy 7” (2023)

Names in Times of Crisis: age of pandemy, energetic deficiency, and war. Names in the Economy VII  – International conference, Verona 28-30 September 2023 Organisation Paola Cotticelli (UniVR) The Laboratorio La.LiA and the Department of Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Verona kindly invite the submission of paper proposals for the seventh international conference...

Conférence sur le projet collectif panroman PatRom

Onomastics Online7 December 2022, 3:00 PM (UTC)par Jean Germain (Université catholique de Louvain): “Le dictionnaire PatRom : une autre manière de faire de l’anthroponymie. L’expérience du projet collectif panroman PatRom”Link to the Zoom MeetingMeeting ID: 688 1410 3878Passcode: 785484 Résumé : Présenter les acquis méthodologiques du projet PatRom (Patronymica Romanica. Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie...

23rd International and Nationwide Conference on Onomastics 

Dear Colleagues,  We invite you to participate at the XXIII International and Nationwide Onomastic Conference, which will be held on October 19-21, 2023 in Opole. Its co-organizer and host institution is the University of Opole. The annual conference provides a platform for international exchange on all topics of onomastics. The main theme of the...

CfP: “Names and Politics” Conference 2023

Conference: 20-22.09.2023, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Germany Organisers: Daniel Kroiß (TU Darmstadt), Miriam Lind (Mainz University), Lena Späth (Mainz University) The naming of people and places has always been entwined with the political. This politics of onomastics has been engaged with since the late 1980s (ALIA 1989), with BOURDIEU (1991, 105) writing of “the...

6th ‘Onomastics Online’ Lecture on October 19, 2022

19 October 2022, 3:00 PM (UTC) Metaphor and Metonymy in Names. Zoom link Carole Hough, University of GlasgowICOS online lecture 19 October 2022 *** AbstractMany names are descriptive, but the descriptions are often non-literal, drawing particularly on metaphor and metonymy. This lecture begins by outlining the most common types of metaphor in place-names, with examples...

CfP: “The Evolution of Shakespeare’s Names on Screen, Stage, and Page”

The seminar “The Evolution of Shakespeare’s Names on Screen, Stage, and Page”, which will be convened during the 2023 conference organised by ESRA, thus invites contributions which include (but are not restricted to) the following topics: Shakespeare’s name changes within plays and from sources. From names to nicknames, a substantial number of names have...

Call for Papers: 2023 ANS annual conference

The American Name Society is now inviting proposals for papers for its next annual conference. After considering an official proposal made on the 27th of May 2022, the Executive Council of the American Name Society voted to hold the 2023 Annual Conference online, as have done in the previous two years. All presentation sessions...

3rd ‘Onomastics Online’ Lecture on April 11, 2022

Onomastics Online11 April 2022, 10:00 AM (UTC)Dr. Kimberly Klassen (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)The lexical load of proper names for second language readers of English Abstract: It is widely assumed by vocabulary researchers of English as a second language (L2) that proper names do not present a burden to L2 readers: the initial capital letter...

Call for Papers: “22nd Slovak Onomastic Conference”

The 22nd SLOVAK ONOMASTIC CONFERENCE entitled “PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF ONYMIC SYSTEMS” will be held at the Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia) from 5th to 7th September 2022. The 22nd Slovak Onomastic Conference is organised by Ľudovít Štúr’s Institute of Linguistics Sciences, Slovak Linguistic Society (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and Slovak Commission for Onomastic...

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