Call for Papers for the International Workshop, “(re)naming places, (re)shaping identities”. The workshop is sponsored by the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies. It will take place from the 28th to the 29th of October 2015.
The deadline for 300 word abstracts and biographical sketches is the 30th of June 2015. For more information, contact: lcaiazzo[@]unior.it
From September 14th and 15th, 2015, the Akademie der Wissenscahft und Literatur will be holding an interdisciplinary workshop on the determinants of bestowing and using personal names (e.g. ethnoracial identity, socioeconomic status, and religion). The deadline for receipt of abstracts is the 31st of May 2015. For more information, click here.… Read More
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Important Dates:
1.12.2014 – 1.04.2015: submission of registration form (see the “Registration” section of this website) (abstracts: maximum 15 lines/150 words);
1 April 2015: notification of acceptance;
1 May 2015: closing date for early registration (lei 350 / EUR 80);
1 June 2015: second circular letter and programme draft;
1 August 2015: third circular letter and final programme;
1-3 September 2015: The Third International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming”: Conventional/ Unconventional in Onomastics
1 October 2015: Full paper submission.… Read More
The 54th Annual Names Institute will be held at Baruch College (CUNY), Lexington Avenue @ 24th St., on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Abstracts on all aspects of names—personal, geographic, commercial & trade, literary—are welcomed by April 15th, to Professor Wayne Finke at wayne.finke[at]baruch.cuny.edu… Read More
Call for Papers – Deadline 15 April 2015.
Special Issue of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics devoted to
Names, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
The American Name Society is currently inviting abstracts
for scientific papers providing an analysis of the names found in
contemporary and classic literary works of science-fiction, fantasy,
or horror.… Read More
The next ANS conference is January 7-10th, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
The call for papers is now open.… Read More
