On Saturday, the 3rd of October, the Welsh Place Name Society and the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI) will be joining forces for a shared annual conference. Presentations will cover a variety topics within the fascinating field of UK toponymy. The official venue for this special event is the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, LD2 3SY.
For more information regarding the conference program and registration, visit the SNSBI website.
From the 27th to the 30th of January 2016, the 8th annual Global WordNet Conference (GWC) will be held in Bucharest, Romania. Organized by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” of the Romanian Academy and the Global WordNet Association, this conference offers an international forum for discussing the latest research on wordnets.
Researchers and developers who are interested in presenting a paper are invited to visit the GWC website. The deadline for submission is September 6th, 2015.
The ANS Abstract Review Committee is encouraged by the quality of work submitted this year. Stay tuned for notification of acceptance by September 30th.
From 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.
From 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:
For information about submitting an abstract and more on this conference, see the CAMWS website.
From 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.
The Võro Institute will be holding a symposium on “First Names of the Finnic Peoples in the 13th -18th Centuries” in Obinitsa, Estonia, on October 30th, 2015. The focus of this event is to bring together specialists in toponymy and anthroponymy across the Finnic cultures. Invited speakers for the symposium include Olga Karlova, Irma Mullonen (Russia) and Sirkka Paikkala, and Janne Saarikivi (Finland).
For more on the symposium, click here.
U.S. Capitol at Dusk
The American Name Society has received a record number of abstracts for this year’s annual meeting.
Join us January 7-10, 2016, in Washington, D.C to hear these papers presented and contribute to an onomastic dialogue.
From the 9th to the 10th of October 2015, the German Society for Onomastic Studies and the Department of Philology at the University of Leipzig will be co-hosting a conference on “Foreign Names” or “Fremde Namen”. A special focus of this event will be exploring the ways in which language contact between peoples has resulted in long-term, significant changes in the onomastic store of local, regional, and national populations in an around German-speaking peoples.
For more on this event, click this German language link.
In the first week of December, 2015, the French Society of Onomastics (Société française d’onomastique) will host the 17th annual conference on onomastics in the National Archives in Paris, France. Click here for more information on the event (in French).
