The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) / Société canadienne d’onomastique (SCO) and the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH) will hold their annual meetings as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, May 30-31, 2020, at Western University in London, Ontario.

They welcome abstract proposals on any onomastic theme in the Spanish-speaking world, including but not limited to:

• Personal names (e.g. family names, nicknames, naming trends and systems, etc.)
• Place names (e.g. streets, settlements, rural names, rivers, etc.)
• Names in literature
• Names in society (e.g. identity, power, perceptions, attitudes, forms of address, etc.)
• Names and linguistic landscape (e.g. public road signs, advertising billboard signs, street signs, commercial shop signs, etc.)

Please see the official call for papers for more details.

DEADLINE: Proposals must be received by January 25, 2020.

The Society’s annual Autumn Day Conference will be held at the Three Villages Community Hall, Arrochar, on Saturday 2 November 2019.

The program is as follows:

Ronald Black: Place-names in the Dewar Manuscripts

Alan Cameron: The Place-names in the Poem Flory Loynachan

Sue Furness, Fiona Jackson and Elizabeth Carmichael: Arrochar Place-names and the Hidden Heritage Project

Peter Drummond: The Cobbler and his Neighbours: Some Mountain Names around Arrochar

Alison Grant: The Nicolaisen Archive

Bill Stephens: Sneaky Swans: Ealaidh in Place and Tradition

The 2019 Annual lecture will be given by Emeritus Professor John Insley, from Heidelberg University, ‘Place-names and their sources in medieval Lancashire’ on Tuesday 22 October 2019 (AGM at 6.30pm; lecture at 7.00pm) at Lancashire Archives (Bow Lane Preston, UK). John is the Lancashire editor for the English Place-Name Society. ​Tickets costs £5.00 each and must be purchased in advance.

Place names have had a low priority in Norwegian linguistic research over the latest decades, and Sámi place names have always been a neglected field of study in all of the Sámi area. Even so, novel methods, theories, and technology have been developed that provide exciting new possibilities for interdisciplinary and comparative studies within this field. The present conference, which will be a contribution to UNs International year of indigenous languages, aims to summarize the status quo of research and requests for more knowledge about Sámi place names in the Nordic countries and North-West Russia, as well as to suggest a multidisciplinary way forward, starting with a sosioonomastic approach to Sámi sacred place names and past and present landscape use.

Registration deadline: November 1, 2019.

Research questions in this workshop include but are not limited to the following topics:

• Promotion and erasure of toponymical repertoires;
• Processes of Turkification & modes of resistance;
• Ottoman, néo-Ottoman, national and post-national historiographies;
• Actors involved in place naming: National leaders and cults of personality, role of the bureaucracy & local administrations, private sector, civil society, political parties;
• Gender and naming policies;
• Geographies of trauma & archaeologies of violence in the politics of naming;
• Methodologies and sources: archives, oral history, official and alternative cartographies;
• Labelling, marketization, commodification;
• Technologies of power & regime change;
• Time scales, moments of change and transition in place naming

The first day of the workshop is open to the public (program).

The second day is reserved to invited guests.

Dear colleagues,

The Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków, Poland), the Faculty of Polish Studies Jagiellonian University (Kraków Poland), the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia), the L’. Štúr Institute of Linguistics SAS (Bratislava, Slovakia), the University in Trnava (Slovakia), the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (Czech Republic) and the congress committee have the honor to invite you to take part in the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. The Congress will be held in Kraków (Poland) from August 23 to August 28, 2020. Detailed information is available at: https://icos2020.ijp.pan.pl.