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Onomastics Online Schedule for autumn 2023

Dear all, The lecture series continues this autumn with four lectures. You can find their dates, titles and Zoom links in the schedule below. Abstracts can be found in the attached file. Also remember that you can watch the recordings of the lectures afterwards on the official YouTube channel of ICOS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE-DZXOsJNKAo6K-0fTEdpA. Best regards, ICOS Board...

Onomastics Online Lecture: “Toponymie critique et Néotoponymie”

Le champ de la toponymie critique ou politique, après quelques travaux précurseurs au XXème siècle, s’affirme au niveau international depuis les années 2010. La chaire Unesco en toponymie inclusive « Dénommer le Monde » participe à sa visibilité, tant d’un point de vue académique (Manuel de synthèse, Mooc et réseaux de recherche) que du...

Call for ICOS 2024 workshop proposals

The call for workshop proposals for the ICOS 2024 congress in Helsinki is closing on 31 May. Thematic workshops, either 90 or 180 min long, include several thematically connected presentations. A workshop can also have an introduction and/or a final discussion. The workshop convenors decide on the length of presentations in the workshop.The convenors...

“Onoma” Editorial Board Meeting

The members of Onoma Editorial Board have had their meeting on Monday 15 May at 5:00 (17:00) CET. In general, most of the topics comprised a bundle of largely good news. The journal’s readership has greatly increased due its online presence and indexation. Among others, the questions of the trilingual research abstracts and of...

Emilia Aldrin: Names as resources for identity construction

The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 9 May 2023 with a presentation given by Emilia Aldrin (Halmstad University ) with the title “Names as resources for identity construction “. 0:00 – 3:17 Introduction 3:17 – 50:43 Presentation 50:43 – 1:04:12 Discussion

Lecture “Names as resources for identity construction”

Dear ICOS members, Here is a reminder of the ICOS Onomastics Online lecture in May: 9 May 2023, 1:00 PM (UTC)   Emilia Aldrin (Halmstad University): “Names as resources for identity construction“ Link to the Zoom Meeting: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/64438496192?pwd=TUNMN0dPa0NDbmtGaElkemRoMGVjQT09 Abstract here: https://icosweb.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Aldrin.pdf  Please visit https://icosweb.net/onomastics-online/ for the links to the recordings of our past events.

Onoma 57 (2022)

A new issue of ONOMA journal has been released ! The thematic section of Onoma 57 is derived from the papers dealing with onomastics in the West Slavic countries Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, presented at the 27th ICOS Congress in Kraków (guest editors: Urszula Bijak, Kraków; Iveta Valentová, Bratislava; Milan Harvalík, Bratislava). Due to the ongoing war...

Onomastics Online Lecture about Place Names as Brands

The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 20 April 2023 with a presentation given by Sungjae Choo (Kyung Hee University ) with the title “Place Names as Brands: Academic Achievements and Further Issues “. 0:00 – 9:07 Introduction 9:07 – 44:51 Presentation 44:51 – 1:11:08 Discussion

Place Names as Brands: Academic Achievements and Further Issues

20 April 2023 (CEST: 3 pm, UTC: 1 pm, KST: 10 pm) Abstract: As a valid tool representing social constructs, place names contain various facets, encompassing cultural, linguistic, political and economic ones. When place names are given economic values, they are acting as brands; they are commodified and becoming commodities; they are subject to...

Dictionnaire des noms de personne dans la parémiologie espagnole

The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 23 March 2023 with a presentation given by Ángel Iglesias Ovejero (Universidad de Orleáns ) with the title “L’expérience onomastique : un dictionnaire des noms de personne dans la parémiologie espagnole “. 0:00 – 6:01 Introduction 6:01 – 51:30 Presentation 51:30 – 1:12:22 Discussion

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