Call for Papers

Symposium on Linguistic Landscapes and Superdiversity in the City, Landau Germany, April 4-6 2016

15065967485_63c24121a3_mFrom the 4th to the 6th of April 2016, an international symposium on Linguistic Landscapes and Superdiversity in the City will be held in Landau, Germany.

Conference organizers are now accepting abstracts that deal with the intersection between lexicography and landscapes. The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of October 2015.

This annual symposium is sponsored by three German universities: Trier, Duisburg, and Landau. Together, this academia triad forms LAUD.

Click here for additional information on the symposium.

Classical Association of the Middle West and South Conference, Williamsburg VA, March 16-19 2016

14424315354_6c1ce8b69c_mFrom the 16th to the 19th of March 2016, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) will be holding its annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The conference will include a special panel on “Lexicography and the Classics.” The aim of this panel is to explore lexicographic innovations within the field of classics. Topics of interest include innovations in:

  • electronic lexica
  • medieval lexica and their reception
  • connections between lexicography and pedagogy

 

For information about submitting an abstract and more on this conference, see the CAMWS website.

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, English, July 4-7 2016

1636602415_d27de4cd7f_mFrom the 4th to the 7th of July 2016, the International Medieval Congress (IMC) will take place in Leeds, England. The IMC is one of the world’s largest gatherings of medieval conferences in the world. The focus of 2016 IMC is cross-linguistic naming during the Middle Ages. In particular, the conference will showcase onomastic research which explores the ways in which different medieval cultures, languages, and societies named the world around them.

The deadline for abstract proposals is the 10th of September 2015. Click here to access the official call for papers and read more about the conference.

2015 International Symposium on Place Names, South Africa, Sept. 16-17

13931644242_cf70039781_mThe 2015 International Symposium on Place Names is issuing its second official call for papers for its upcoming conference in the Free State Province of South Africa, to be held from the 16th to the 17th of September 2015.

This toponymic conference is soliciting papers which examine the role which place names play in human events and/or conceptualizations of the political, cultural, social, and demographic world around us. Potential sub-topics:

  • functions, motivations, and/or management of place names on maps
  • principles used for creating place names
  • social and/or historical dimensions of place names
  • principles for solving place-naming conflicts

 

The languages of the symposium are English and Afrikaans. A selection of the papers will be published as conference proceedings in a special edition of the Nomina Africa, the accredited journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa.

Click here for more information.

International EURALEX Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 6-10 2016

4312721365_aa41c18cea_mFrom the 6th to the 10th of September 2016, the 27th annual international EURALEX Congress will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia. This conference is being organized by the Lexicographic Centre at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The EURALEX Congress is designed to bring together lexicographers, software developers, publishers, and researchers. The motto of the 2016 Congress is “Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity”.

The deadline for abstract submissions is the 15th of October, 2015. Click here for a list of topics being accepted for presentation. Papers and posters may be presented in any European language. However, abstracts should be submitted in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.

For more on the organization, click here.

Global WordNet Conference, Bucharest Romania, January 27-30 2016

The 8th annual Global WordNet Conference will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from the 27th to the 30th of January, 2016. The purpose of this conference is to offer researchers and developers from around the world the chance to discuss their latest work in the development of wordnet.2218565333_2d0b766308_m

Hosted by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, the conference organizers are now accepting abstracts for papers addressing topics such as:

  • lexicography, onotologies and wordnets
  • semantic relations, components, and co-occurrence statistics
  • the integration of multi-wordnets in infrastructures such as CLARIN and LT networks

 

Proposals for tutorials are also welcome. The call for papers ends the 6th of September, 2015. Click here for more on this event.

Call for Papers: Journal of Literary Onomastics Special Issue

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Call for Submissions: Journal of Literary Onomastics 5 (2016)
(a special issue on place and place-names in the early Insular world)

The deeply rooted importance of landscape, place, and place-names is a shared characteristic throughout the Insular cultures of the early Middle Ages, ranging from the material to the literary. From examinations of the early Irish dindshenchas tradition to recent archaeological investigations into the role of landscape in socio-political structures, the study of place has begun to receive more critical attention.

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