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Register now for ANS 2022!

Registration is now open for the 2022 ANS Conference The ANS conference will take place on Zoom, from January 21-23, 2022. Anyone who is interested may attend! You can register online here, or download a PDF of the Conference Registration Form and mail it to ANS Treasurer Saundra Wright, as per the instructions on the form. The...

The ACTA 60 Onomastic Conference

The Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague), the Department of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ostrava), the conference committee, and the local organizing committee have the honour to invite you to take part in the ACTA 60 Onomastic Conference (the 5th Czech Onomastic Conference and the...

GfN-Conference “Names in motion: Adaptation processes of person and place names in areal, diachronic, and social fields of tension”

Names in motion: Adaptation processes of person and place names in areal, diachronic, and social fields of tension GfN-Conference, University of Münster, September 11-13, 2019 As proper names refer directly to individual objects, they crucially depend on stable, fixed relationships between form and referent. However, such fixed references open up fields of tension when...

Invitation to the 49th NORNA-symposium 2019

​Invitation to the 49th NORNA-symposium Minority Names in Oral and Written Contexts in a Multi-Cultural World 24.–25.4.2019 in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway NORNA’s 49. symposium will be held in the middle of the North Sámi area in the town of Guovdageaidnu (Norwegian Kautokeino) in northern Norway, 24.–25. April 2019. The symposium is set to last...

Convegno di Studi “Lingua e Toponomastica”

La Società Filologica Friulana, che collabora all’iniziativa, ha il piacere di invitare la S.V. al convegno di studio su LINGUA E TOPONOMASTICA Percorsi di toponomastica nell’arco alpino con piccola mostra su donne e montagna, portatrici e alpiniste Martedì 6 marzo 2018, dalle 15.00 alle 18.00 Università di Padova, Palazzo del Bo, Sala Nievo INTERVENTI:...

NORNA: 48th symposium in Gothenburg “Names in Writing” (Nov. 2018)

Call for papers 29–30 November 2018, University of Gothenburg and Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg The study of writing has gained increasing importance within linguistics and culture studies in recent years. The field has widened substantially focusing not only on graphemics and spelling principles, but also on the mediality of writing, writing practices...

“Use of place names in public space” Session by ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy

Dear colleagues, The International Geographical Union (IGU) organizes 4-6 June 2018 in Moscow a Thematic Conference on “Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges” (http://www.igras.ru/100igras/en/), which will also be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) – the largest and oldest geographical research organization...

International Conference “Naming, Identity and Tourism”

UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES May 3–5, 2018 Call for Papers As a multifaceted negotiation process, naming plays a crucial role in the social construction of space and time, in that it inscribes ideological messages about the past (and the present) into the texts of our everyday life. This critical perspective marks a...

Jornada d’onomàstica de les terres de Penyagolosa

La zona d’estudi, que d’ara en avant queda batejada com «terres de Penyagolosa», abasta l’àmbit comarcal de l’Alcalatén, els termes de la Setena de Culla del Maestrat històric i pobles veïns de l’Aragó i de l’Alt Millars. Penyagolosa és un cim emblemàtic de les nostres terres, centre de l’excursionisme valencià, vedaler del pas de...

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