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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

Call for submissions for the journal “Onomástica desde América Latina”

*** english *** The journal Onomastics from Latin America / Onomástica desde América Latina announces that it is receiving articles for volume 4. The submission must be made through the website of the journal (https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/onomastica ). Once accepted for publication, articles will be published in continuous flow. Onomastics from Latin America began to be...

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...

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Names and Naming in Youth Literature

This edited collection will consider how names, depictions of naming practices, and explorations of name theory in youth literature can enrich our understanding of created worlds and, by implication, of our real world. For the purposes of this collection, we draw on the Children’s Literature Association’s conception of literature as “books, films, and other...

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on Names & Naming

The registration is now open for the 2023 Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on Names & Naming, taking place both online and in-person at Ertegun House, Oxford from the 20-21st of April. Anyone interested may view the full programme and register (for free) at https://oxgradconf.wixsite.com/omgc/2023-names-naming. We are also attaching a pdf of the programme that we...

Release of a new issue of “Rivista Italiana di Onomastica” vol. XXIX (2023)

A new issue of RIOn journal has been released. Rivista Italiana di Onomastica was founded in 1995 to promote and valorise Italian studies covering all fields of onomastics with particular attention to the areas where linguistic, literary and philological sciences come into contact with other disciplines: history, psychology, sociology, demography, statistics, law, geography and archaeology....

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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