You are invited to participate in the International Training on Toponymy with a special focus on “Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage”, which will be held on 19 – 23 June 2023, at Padma Resort Legian, Bali Indonesia. The objectives of the training are to improve awareness, increase knowledge and understanding and strengthen skills in...
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...
Lundi 20 mars 2023 – 17hArchives nationales Conférence par Jean-Pierre Chambon, ancien professeur à la Sorbonne À la mémoire de Paul Fabre Je me propose de présenter certains résultats de mes travaux sur la toponymie du nord-est de la Franche-Comté, un secteur que j’explore depuis longtemps, non sans la collaboration de chercheurs locaux (Daniel Curtit, Alain Guillaume,...
The presence of minority and indigenous languages in urban naming26-29 September 2023University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa The Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies at the University of the Free State (RSA), in partnership with the Joint IGU/ICA Commission on Toponymy, is pleased to announce the next biennial international...
The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 31 March 2022 with a presentation given by Martin Thiering (RWTH Aachen University) with the title “Toponyms and Landmarks as Cognitive Maps in Dene Chipewyan and Eipomek”. 0:00 – 3:54 Introduction 3:54 – 42:28 Presentation 42:28 – 1:33:48 Discussion For more information about the lecture series, please...
Canada’s national coordinating body for geographical names is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2022. Since 1897, the board has worked to establish standards and practices for the naming of Canada’s places and features, and its members have approved over 350,000 official names across our vast geography.
Onomastics Online15 February 2022, 3:00 PM (UTC)Professor Derek H. Alderman (University of Tennessee)Race, Memory, and Campus Place Name Reform: Strategies for Transforming the Classroom intoa Toponymic Workspace Abstract: School and university campus landscapes – specifically their array of place names – have emerged as flashpoints in ongoing global struggles to acknowledge, debate and come...
New book release – Tereza Klemensová: Zeměpisné názvy v pohraničí po roce 1945: na příkladu okresu Jeseník Klemensová’s new book focuses on toponyms (place names, minor place names and street names) in Czech border region – the former...
The anniversary conference will be held on October 27-28, 2021 at the University of Bergen in the Natural History Museum. Deadline for submission of abstracts is the 1st March 2021 ( max. 300 words). The four themes of the conference: Place-name Collection Main emphasis on collection of place-names in a broad perspective with regard to: what...
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