Conference on “Foreign Names”, Germany, October 9-10 2015

7664335588_03ea64a2bd_mFrom the 9th to the 10th of October 2015, the German Society for Onomastic Studies and the Department of Philology at the University of Leipzig will be co-hosting a conference on “Foreign Names” or “Fremde Namen”. A special focus of this event will be exploring the ways in which language contact between peoples has resulted in long-term, significant changes in the onomastic store of local, regional, and national populations in an around German-speaking peoples.

For more on this event, click this German language link.