The 2018 Medium Ævum Day Conference ‘Names and Identity in the Medieval World’ will be held on Saturday 27 October at the University of Glasgow. MEDIUM ÆVUM exists to support and promote research into the cultures and intellectual life of the medieval world. Full Programme 9:15am to 9:45am – Registration and Tea/Coffee 9:45am to...
Names in motion: Adaptation processes of person and place names in areal, diachronic, and social fields of tension GfN-Conference, University of Münster, September 11-13, 2019 As proper names refer directly to individual objects, they crucially depend on stable, fixed relationships between form and referent. However, such fixed references open up fields of tension when...
The Fifth International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming” Baia Mare, September 3-5, 2019 Multiculturalism in Onomastics Sections: – Multiculturalism in Anthroponymy – Multiculturalism in Toponymy – Multiculturalism in Names in Public Space (e.g., commercial names etc.) Official conference languages: Romanian, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish. Multiculturalism is a more and more prominent topic...
WPNS and SNSBI day conference 2018 The Welsh Place-Name Society’s autumn day conference will be held in conjunction with the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and will take place at Bangor University on Saturday 6 October 2018. For further details and registration information, see the document in attachment.
Dear Members of Onomastica&Letteratura and dear colleagues, please, find in attachment the Program of the 23rd International Conference Onomastics & Literature, which will take place this year at the University of Turin in September, 20-22. We take this opportunity to thank our Colleagues from Turin, who have already welcomed the 11th Conference in November...
Announcement 5th International Symposium on Place Names: Recognition, regulation, revitalisation: place names and indigenous languages Mont d’Or Hotel, Clarens, South Africa, 18-20 September 2019 The Unit for Language Facilitation and Empowerment at the University of the Free State (UFS), in partnership with the Joint IGU/ICA Commission on Toponymy, is pleased to announce the next...
Symposium international à Niamey, 5-9 Septembre 2018 Université Abdou Moumouni, LASDEL, Niamey, Niger Université de Genève, Suisse Nommer les lieux en Afrique : enjeux sociaux, politiques et culturels Pour un observatoire des néotoponymies urbaine, géopolitique et numérique Soutenu par le Programme Point Sud (Université de Frankfort) de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG Programme en...
Dear onomastic students and their supervisors, We are delighted to announce that the first ever ICOS Summer School will be held in Helsinki, Finland in from 26th to 30th August 2019. Summer School is a wonderful opportunity for young onomastic scholars to expand their academic knowledge and to network with their colleagues. Applications for...
Invitation to the 49th NORNA-symposium Minority Names in Oral and Written Contexts in a Multi-Cultural World 24.–25.4.2019 in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway NORNA’s 49. symposium will be held in the middle of the North Sámi area in the town of Guovdageaidnu (Norwegian Kautokeino) in northern Norway, 24.–25. April 2019. The symposium is set to last...
Names in the Economy VI International conference, Uppsala 3–5 June 2019 The Economy in Names: Values, Branding and Globalization Save the date After the five successful NiTE conferences in Antwerp, Vienna, Amsterdam, Turku and Verona, we are now pleased to announce that the Institute for Language and Folklore, together with the Department of Scandinavian...
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