2026
January
8–11 January 2026, Toronto, Canada – the ANS panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention “Onomastic Rhetoric: Acts of Naming in Real and/or Imagined Worlds”
20 January 2026, online – 3rd International Scientific Conference “Onomastic Meetings. Onomastic Research of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland” (III Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Spotkania onomastyczne. Badania onomastyki pogranicza polsko-ukraińskiego”)
26–29 January 2026, Madrid, Spain – panel at “LIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística” on the topic “The Morphosyntax of Proper Names”
February
2–4 February 2026, Valencia, Spain – colloquium “Valencian Surnames: Documentation, Evolution, Distribution and Etymology, with Particular Attention to Singular Lineages” (Els cognoms valencians: documentació, evolució, distribució i etimologia, amb especial atenció als llinatges singulars)
21 February 2026, online – annual meeting of the American Name Society
March
23–24 March 2026, Montevideo, Uruguay – workshop “Non-Bare Proper Names III: Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective”
27–29 March 2026, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK – 32nd annual conference of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)
April
May
8–10 May 2026, Encamp, Andorra – 51st colloquium of the Societat d’Onomàstica (Toponímia i antroponímia pirinenca, relleu positiupirinenca, relleu positiu i hidronímiai hidronímia)
19–21 May 2026, Reykjavík, Iceland – 51st NORNA Symposium “Names and Cultural Heritage” (Namn och kulturarv)
June
6–7 June 2026, online – the 60th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) “Onomastics and Toponymy as reflections of our World”
16–20 June 2026, Lagos, Nigeria – panel “The Power of Names: Naming, Renaming, and African Identity” at 10th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association (LSA)
18–19 June 2026, Montpellier, France – Pour une approche interdisciplinaire de la toponymie
25–27 June 2026, Mainz, Germany – International symposium “Names in the Economy VIII” – “Ergonyms and Multilingualism”
July
6–9 July 2026, Leeds, Great Britain – panel on “Medieval Onomastics” at the International Medieval Congress
August
17–19 August 2026, Stará Lesná, Slovakia – 24th Slovak Onomastic Conference (SOK) “Continuity, Variability and Innovation in Onomastics”
24–28 August 2026, Helsinki, Finland – the 3rd ICOS Summer School
September
3–5 September 2026, Rennes, France – XXIe Colloque d’onomastique
9–11 September 2026, Baia Mare, Romania – The 7th International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming” on the topic “Names and Humour”
16–18 September 2026, Prague, Czechia – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition (ILANSCO) 2026 “Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict“
October
8–10 October 2026, Samara, Russia – XXIV International Scientific Conference “Onomastics of the Volga Region” (Ономастика Поволжья)
12–13 October 2026, Hermagor, Austria – GeoNames Symposium 2026 “The heritage value of microtoponyms”
November
December
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