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From now on, you may find the most extensive list of the name-related periodicals on our ICOS Website under “Links” ! Enjoy it. The list contains names, publisher and/or expertise, years of publication, policy of full open access and languages in which the articles are to be accepted. Of course, the list given here...
How are places named around the world? Who names them? And what political, cultural, social and memory issues are at stake? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, are set to answer these questions following the launch of a new UNESCO chair in inclusive toponymy: Naming the World. What are its goals? To...
ICOS Young Scholar Network has got its page on the ICOS Website. It is a group within the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) that is targeted to young scholars of onomastics (i.e., PhD students, undergraduate students, recently graduated PhDs). Its purpose is to help young scholars integrate to the international onomastic community and...
The project titled “Swedifying the other: place-name policymaking in the large-scale cadastral maps of the Swedish Empire (1630–1700)” has received a grant from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). The latter is a Swedish independent foundation with the goal of promoting and supporting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The project with a funding volume...
Dear Colleagues, in the name of ICOS, Onoma and all staff members, we like to express our deep sadness about Prof. Nicolae Felecan’s death. He was a distinguished linguist, onomastician and long-time member of ICOS. Our deepest sympathy goes to his son Oliviu Felecan and other relatives in this time of grief. Born in northern...
Dear Colleagues, On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Bulgarian onomastician prof. Yordan Zaimov (1921 – 1987) the Onomastics Department of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin” at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has the honour to organise a conference entitled “Anthroponyms and anthroponymic researches in the...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Professor Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, who passed away on 7th July 2020 after a severe illness. Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch was born in 1952 in Częstochowa. She studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University, where she received her M.A. in 1976. In 1985 she earned her PhD...
The head of the Department of Croatian Onomastics and Etymology Dr. Ankica Čilaš Šimpraga after a long and severe illness passed away three months ago. She was member of ICOS its Terminological Group, editorial board of “Folia Onomastica Croatica”, national expert on onomastic terms and standardization of geographical names at the European Commission, East...
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