Onomastics Online is a series of online lectures dealing with important timely topics related to names and naming. Given by distinguished scholars from various academic backgrounds, the lectures demonstrate the importance and the multidisciplinary nature of onomastic research. Established in 2022, Onomastics Online also addresses the gap of sharing onomastic ideas, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the cancellations of scientific meetings.
The lectures can be followed either in real time via Zoom platform (see “Upcoming lectures” for Zoom links), with a possibility to participate the Q&A session afterwards, or afterwards on YouTube. Recordings of the lectures will be published on the ICOS YouTube channel usually within a couple of days. As the organizer of the series, ICOS also offers special lectures for its members only. If you want to become an ICOS member, please visit here.
Upcoming lectures
The lecture abstracts and Zoom event details can be seen by clicking the lecture titles.
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April 5th, 2024, at 15:00 (CET): Gercsák Gábor “Principles of place naming in the new national atlas of Hungary“
April 10th, 2024, at 17:00 (CET): Stéphane Gendron “Les animaux dans la toponymie française : entre réel et imaginaire“
May/June 2024, Alexandra Petrulevich
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Past lectures
The past lectures will be added here, with YouTube links to their recordings.
6 March 2024: Louis Hébert “Théories et méthodes pour l’analyse des noms propres dans les textes littéraires : synthèse” (YouTube)
7 February 2024: Frédéric Giraut “Toponymie critique et Néotoponymie : Pour une théorisation“ (YouTube)
21 November 2023: Matjaž Geršič: Minority place-name regulations in Slovenia (YouTube)
25 October 2023: Lasse Hämäläinen: Name of the Year awards: Experiences from Finland (YouTube)
21 September 2023: Christian Galinski: Terminology – past, present and future: How to overcome barriers to content interoperability by means of a microcontent approach (YouTube)
9 May 2023: Emilia Aldrin: Names as resources for identity construction (YouTube)
20 April 2023: Sungjae Choo: Place Names as Brands: Academic Achievements and Further Issues (YouTube)
22 March 2023: Ángel Iglesias Ovejero: L’expérience onomastique: un dictionnaire des noms de personne dans la parémiologie espagnole (YouTube)
23 February 2023: Marília Ferreira: Onomastics in Parkatêjê language (YouTube, ABRALIN & ICOS joint lecture)
25 January 2023: André Xavier: Toponymic studies on Brazilian Sign Language (YouTube, ABRALIN & ICOS joint lecture)
7 December 2022: Jean Germain: Le dictionnaire PatRom : une autre manière de faire de l’anthroponymie. L’expérience du projet collectif panroman PatRom YouTube link
10 November 2022: Rita Brdar-Szabó & Mario Brdar: Anthroponymy: More metaphor and metonymy than meets the eye. YouTube link
19 October 2022: Carole Hough: Metaphor and Metonymy in Names. YouTube link.
27 September 2022: Elwys De Stefani: ”Speaking with names”: On the origins, aims and methods of Interactional Onomastics. (ABRALIN & ICOS join lecture) YouTube link
18 May 2022: Richard Coates: Introducing The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP). YouTube link
11 April 2022: Kimberly Klassen: The lexical load of proper names for second language readers of English. YouTube link
31 March 2022: Martin Thiering: Toponyms and Landmarks as Cognitive Maps in Dene Chipewyan and Eipomek. YouTube link
15 February 2022: Derek H. Alderman: Race, Memory, and Campus Place Name Reform: Strategies for Transforming the Classroom into a Toponymic Workspace. YouTube link