Onomastics Online31 March 2022, 2:00 PM (UTC)Martin ThieringPriv.-Doz. Dr. phil. habil., RWTH Aachen UniversityAssociate professor at Technische Universität BerlinResearch Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institut für KunstgeschichteToponyms and Landmarks as Cognitive Maps in Dene Chipewyan and Eipomek Abstract: This presentation focuses on spatial concepts primarily, but not exclusively in Dene Chipewyan (Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada) and...
The 22nd SLOVAK ONOMASTIC CONFERENCE entitled “PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF ONYMIC SYSTEMS” will be held at the Trnava University in Trnava (Slovakia) from 5th to 7th September 2022. The 22nd Slovak Onomastic Conference is organised by Ľudovít Štúr’s Institute of Linguistics Sciences, Slovak Linguistic Society (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and Slovak Commission for Onomastic...
New book release – Kristýna Kovářová: Hydronymie povodí Ostravice: jména řek, potoků, rybníků a studánek Kovářová’s new book presents research into the hydronymy of Ostravice River Basin in the Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic), i.e. the names of hydrographic features within...
Canada’s national coordinating body for geographical names is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2022. Since 1897, the board has worked to establish standards and practices for the naming of Canada’s places and features, and its members have approved over 350,000 official names across our vast geography.
DR. WOLFGANG AHRENS (January 4, 1940 – February 18, 2022) was a long-time member of ICOS, one of the organisers of the 23rd ICOS in Toronto, as well as one of the editors of the corresponding proceedings. Born in Germany, he moved with his family to Schwetzingen, a few years after World War Two,...
The International Council of Onomastic Sciences condemns the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the distorted representation of historical and cultural facts to legitimize its action. We would like to express our solidarity and sympathy with all people in Ukraine and especially Ukrainian colleagues who are suffering from this war. We would also like to emphasize that our...
The lecture series Onomastics Online was started on 15 February 2022 by Professor Derek Alderman (University of Tennessee) with the title “Race, Memory, and Campus Place Name Reform: Strategies for Transforming the Classroom into a Toponymic Workspace”. For more information about the lecture series, please visit ICOS website: https://icosweb.net/onomastics-online/.
ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference Names and Identity in Literature: Contemporary Debates January 5-8 2023, San Francisco, CA The politics of names and naming has been brought into sharp relief by several influential scholars and studies during the 21st century. Recent work in this area is exemplified by the papers in edited collections...
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Onomastics Online15 February 2022, 3:00 PM (UTC)Professor Derek H. Alderman (University of Tennessee)Race, Memory, and Campus Place Name Reform: Strategies for Transforming the Classroom intoa Toponymic Workspace Abstract: School and university campus landscapes – specifically their array of place names – have emerged as flashpoints in ongoing global struggles to acknowledge, debate and come...
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