On the 23rd of April 2016, the 3rd Anthony Wheeler Conference will be held in Suffolk (UK). The topic of the conference will be Suffolk Place-Names and Landscape.
Conferences
Children’s Literature Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 9-11, 2016
The Children’s Literature Association will be holding a conference from the 9th to the 11th of June 2016 in the Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Square in Columbus, Ohio. Onomastic researchers with a special interest in children’s literature are invited to register.
Onomastics Conference “Eigennamen”, Mainz, Germany, October 10-11, 2016
From the 10th to the 11th of October 2016, in Mainz, Germany, the Academy for Science and Literature will be holding an onomastics conference on “Eigennamen.” The deadline for abstract proposals is the 31st of May 2016. More on the conferences and other onomastic events held by the Academy is available in German.
Conference: One-Name Studies – Home and Away, Birmingham, England, April 3, 2016
On the 3rd of April 2016, the Guild of One-Name Studies, an onomastic organization devoted to the intensive investigation of single surnames, will be holding a conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England.
Call for Papers – Special Session of ANS about Texas Names, Austin, January 5-8, 2017
The 2017 annual meeting of ANS will be January 5-8 in Austin, TX. In recognition of this occasion there will be a special session devoted to Texas names.
Abstracts on any aspect of Texas names are welcome:
- place names in Texas
- personal names in Texas
- regional or ethnic names in Texas
- changes of names
- pronunciation of Texas names
- street names in Texas
- ranch names
- Texas brands
- folk etymology in Texas names
- fanciful stories attached to Texas names
- names of Texas radio and TV stations
- Texas highway names
- names of Texas politicians
- Texas formal vs. colloquial names
- Texas names in media
- names of Texas newspapers
- New England names in Texas
… the list goes on.
You need not live in Texas nor be a native or even a naturalized Texan to participate. Texans, former Texans, closet Texans, Texas wannabees, Texans from all parts of the world are welcome.
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this special session, please send an email to Edward Callary [callary1@hotmail.com] no later than April 30 expressing your interest and a general idea of your topic.
Call for Papers: The Names Institute, New York, May 7, 2016
Call for Papers: The Names Institute
The Names Institute was founded by the late E. Wallace McMullen at Fairleigh Dickinson University and directed by him for a quarter of a century. It then continued under the direction of Wayne H. Finke at The City University of New York. It will in 2016 hold its 55th annual meeting at Baruch College (CUNY) the first Saturday in May.… Read More
Reminder: Proposal Deadline approaches for ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference
ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference
January 5-8th, 2017 in Philadelphia, PA
The American Name Society invites proposals for a panel under the theme of “Names and Multilingualism.” Multilingual and multicultural communities have been developed since the ancient world. The linguistic and cultural contacts within these communities have attracted the interest of a broad range of disciplines, where in some cases different strands have emerged. Personal as well as place names (i.e. anthroponymy and toponymy, respectively) mirror the interactions and the subsequent changes in those communities, thus modern scholarship often emphasizes their significance.
We encourage submissions pertaining to this topic from diverse perspectives, drawing evidence from literature, material culture, oral tradition, etc. of any period or area. Papers may deal with any aspect of naming, e.g., personal names, place names, corporate or trade names, name theory, etc. Submissions for interdisciplinary approaches are most welcome.
Proposal submission process:
- Proposals should include a title and abstract up to 350 words.
- Proposals should be sent via email attachment (PDF format) to Andreas Gavrielatos [a.gavrielatos@ed.ac.uk] with “MLA proposal” in the subject line. Please, include the Title, Name of Speaker, Affiliation and email address in the body of the email and NOT in the abstract.
- Proposals must be received by 5pm GMT on 16 March 2016. Proposers will be notified of results soon thereafter, following blind review of proposals.
- Panelists must be members of both MLA and ANS in order to present.
- For questions, please contact Andreas Gavrielatos at the email address above.
More information about ANS and MLA conferences in available on the Conferences page of this website.
Product Name and Labeling at the Annual Federal Food Regulatory Conference, Washington, DC, May 23-24 2016
From the 23rd to the 24th of May, 2016, the 28th Annual Federal Food Regulatory Conference will be taking place in Washington, D.C.. Among the many topics to be explored this year is product naming and labeling.
Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Berlin, Germany, August 11, 2016
On August 11, 2016, the 12th annual Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MEW2016) will be held in Berlin, Germany. The event is being endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computation Linguistics. For this workshop, the term Multiword Expression refers to a wide range of linguistic constructions (e.g.… Read More
International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications, Gdansk, Poland, September 11-14, 2016
The 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications (LTA’16) will be held from the 11th to the 14th of September 2016 in Gdansk, Poland. Paper proposals dealing with new technologies and intelligent systems for language processing are welcome. The deadline for abstract submission is April 18, 2016.