Dear Colleagues, We invite you to participate in the 5th International Scientific Aleksandras Vanagas’ Conference “Language and Culture Dialogue in 21st Century Onomastics”. The Conference will be held on November 7–8, 2024. Venue: The Institute of the Lithuanian Language, P. Vileišio St. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius and in Zoom platform. Suggested Topics Keynote Speakers Conference languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, English. Duration of...
The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 7 February 2024 with a presentation given by Professor Frédéric Giraut (Université de Genève) with the title “Toponymie critique et Néotoponymie : Pour une théorisation “. 0:00 – 3:00 Introduction 3:00 – 42:53 Presentation 42:53 – 1:01:58 Discussion
Le champ de la toponymie critique ou politique, après quelques travaux précurseurs au XXème siècle, s’affirme au niveau international depuis les années 2010. La chaire Unesco en toponymie inclusive « Dénommer le Monde » participe à sa visibilité, tant d’un point de vue académique (Manuel de synthèse, Mooc et réseaux de recherche) que du...
A new issue of ONOMA journal has been released ! The sessions “Place names as (part of) cultural heritage” with 16 papers, smoothly fitting into the overall conference theme, were contributed and organized by the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy (“Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past” in Lecce (Italy), 26–28 May 2021). A selection of these papers,...
Welcome to Helsinki! Organizing committee: Terhi Ainiala (chair), Lasse Hämäläinen, Milla Juhonen, Johanna Lehtonen, Minna Nevala, Minna Saarelma-Paukkala, Paula Sjöblom Abstract evaluations The scientific committee has completed evaluating the paper abstracts, and the letters of acceptance or rejection have been sent to the submitters. If you have not received the letter, please check your...
Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to announce that all three volumes of the Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Onomastics Scinces have been published online (OA) on the Jagiellonian University Press website: The full bibliographic record for each volume (including DOI numbers) is as follows: We also wanted to inform you that currently, only entire volumes...
The Czech National Corpus, hosted by Charles University in Prague, has recently unveiled a linguistic treasure – OnomOs. This diachronic corpus is the result of collaborative efforts led by researchers from the Department of Czech Language at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, spearheaded by Jaroslav David and his team. OnomOs stands out...
Dear ICOS members, Please find attached the call for papers for the 58th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) (June 15-16, 2024, McGill University, Canada). The conference will be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada. The theme of the...
Société française d’onomastique (Paris, Archives Nationales) en partenariat avec l’ Université de Caen Normandie ainsi que le soutien de la Région Normandie et de la Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie XXe Colloque d’Onomastique THÈMES 1/ Les mythes en onomastique 2/ Richesse onomastique de la Normandie Date : mercredi 11 – samedi 14 septembre 2024...
NOTE! Unfortunately, the speaker introduction and the first few minutes of the lecture were not recorded. Our apologies! The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 21 November 2023 with a presentation given by Dr. Matjaž Geršič (ZRC SAZU Anton Melik Geographical Institute) with the title “Minority place-name regulations in Slovenia “. 0:00 – 41:53...
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