From the 27th to the 30th of June 2016, the Department of Jewish Culture at Saint Petersburg University in Russia will be holding a conference on Hebrew and Yiddish in Contemporary Education and Culture. The aim of this 2nd international conference is to provide researchers specializing in Yiddish or Hebrew Studies a forum for sharing their findings and experience.… Read More
Conferences
International Conference of Near Eastern Achaeomusicology, University of Oxford, December 14-16, 2015
The International Conference of Near Eastern Achaeomusicology (ICONEA) will be holding a scientific forum devoted to all aspects of onomasiology and semasiology in the music of the Ancient World. Interested participants are invited to send in their abstracts before the 16th of November 2015. The conference will be held in the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford from the 14th to the 16th of December 2015.
ANS Panel on Literary Onomastics at the Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX, January 8, 2016
On the 8th of January 2016, the ANS will be hosting a special panel on literary onomastics during the annual conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Austin, Texas. The title of this year’s panel is “Names in the Literary Workplace”.
Three papers will be presented during this event:
- Linguistic Imperialism in Doctor Dolittle (to be presented by Jonathan Rey Lee
- Screen Names: Names and the Limits of the Human in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist (Candace Caraco)
- Naming and the Work of Revolution: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies (Christine De Vinne).
The official scientific abstracts for this event can be found here.
The panel will take place from 10:15am to 11:30am, in the Austin Convention Center.
Conference on Taboo Humo(u)r, Barcelona, Spain, September 20-21, 2016
From the 20th to the 21st of September, 2016, the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain will be holding a conference on Taboo Humo(u)r. The purpose of the conference is to investigate the intricacies of taboo in language and the intersection between culture, society, media, and humor.
Individual proposals or pre-organized panels addressing one or more of the following themes are especially welcome:
- sex and sexuality
- death and dying
- sickness
- disability and deformity
- scatology
- politics
- religion and blasphemy
- money
- violence
The deadline for proposal submission is the 15th of January, 2016.
Workshop on Proper Names and Morphosyntax, Berlin, Germany, November 5-6, 2015
From the 5th to the 6th of November 2015, a onomastic workshop on Proper Names and Morphosyntax will be held in Berlin, Germany.
In addition to providing a scientific forum for the discussion of the morphosyntactic properties of proper names, this workshop will offer an opportunity to collectively investigate complex expressions containing proper names (e.g. prepositional phrases and compounding). The central question to be explored during this gathering is the necessity of creating a specific grammar to describe the morphological and syntactic properties of proper names.
The full program for this event is available on the conference website.
Conference on Samoyedology, Moscow, Russia, September 8-10, 2016
The 6th International conference on Samoyedology will be held from the 8th to the 10th of September, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. Dedicated to the memory of Ariadna Kuznetsova (1932-2015), this conference will bring to together lexicographers, linguists, anthropologists, and folklorists whose research centers upon the group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Siberia and the Russian Arctic.
Samoyedic language researchers who are interested in presenting their work at this special event are asked to send in a scientific abstract of ca. 3,600 characters by the March 1st 2016. For more details regarding the call for papers and the conference, contact Andrey Shluinsky (samoyedology2016[@]yandex.ru).
CombiNet Conference, Rome, Italy, January 29-30, 2016
From the 29th to the 30 of January 2016, Roma Tre University in conjunction with the Universities of Pisa and Bologona, will be holding the CombiNet Conference. The theme of this year’s international conference is “Word Formats and Lexical Combinations: Structures, extraction methods, and lexicographic representations.” The event is scheduled to take place in Rome, Italy.
The aim of the conference is to strengthen collaborative ties between researchers interested in the analysis of the nature, structure, typology, and combination properties of words. Researchers working within the fields of lexicology, lexicography, and computational linguistics are encouraged to send in paper proposals by the December 1st 2015 deadline.
For more on the conference program and the call for papers, consult the CombiNet website.
Workshop “Hornucopia,” New Haven, CT, November 6-7 2015
From the 6th to the 7th of November 2015, in New Haven, Connecticut, the Yale Linguistics Department will hold a workshop entitled Hornucopia in honor of Laurence C. Horn.
This workshop is designed to bring together linguists and philosophers whose work builds upon Horn’s scholarship of in the field of natural language semantics and pragmatics. Experts in the areas of lexicography, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax are especially encouraged to attend.
Although the workshop is free, registration is required.
Conference on dialects, lexicography, and etymology, Corsica, France, October 28-30, 2015
From the 28th to the 30th of October, a conference on dialects, lexicography, and etymology will be held in Corsica, France in honor of F. D. Falcucci. The deadline for registration is the 20th of October. Click here for more on the conference (available in both French and Italian).
Christian Literary Studies Group (CLSG) Conference: Homiletics / The Game of the Name, Oxford, November 7, 2015
On the 7th of November 2015, the Christian Literary Studies Group (CLSG) will be holding a conference entitled “Homiletics / The Game of the Name” at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (UK). The purpose of the CLSG is to explore the Christian faith via literary analysis.
This year’s conference will explore the significance of names and naming in Biblical texts. Some of the scheduled presentations include:
- “Christian Names: some aspects of literary onomastics in early English literature”, Dr Paul Cavill, University of Nottingham
- “Robert Southwell’s sermon The Triumphs over Death”, Dr Mike Nolan, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- “Wuldorfæder and Heofenrices Weard: The Names of God in Old English Poetry”, Samuel Cardwell, Cambridge
The attendance fee for non-members is £18. Click here for more information about the conference and to learn about the CLSG Journal, The Glass.