Conferences

Conference on “Foreign Names”, Germany, October 9-10 2015

7664335588_03ea64a2bd_mFrom 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.

International Conference on Cartography and Geoinformation Science (ICCGIS) annual conference, Montreal, May 16-17 2016

2123523275_983f039f2b_mThe International Conference on Cartography and Geoinformation Science (ICCGIS) will be holding its 18th annual conference from the 16th to the 17th of May 2016 in Montreal, Canada. Papers on cartography and toponymy are especially invited. The deadline for abstract submissions is the 16th of November 2015.

Click here for the official call for papers as well as information on registration.

Symposium on Atlases, Topography, and the History of Cartography, Rio de Janeiro, August 19-21 2015

10912431134_e942bdb4e5_mFrom the 19th to the 21st of August 2015, there will be a pre-conference Symposium on Atlases, Topography, and the History of Cartography at the Brazilian Foundation of Geography and Statistics in Rio de Janeiro. The Symposium is scheduled to include two days with scientific paper presentations as well as excursions to the Fundacao Bibliotheca Nacional and to the Museu Naval.

Click here for more on this event.

International EURALEX Congress, Tbilisi, Georgia, September 6-10 2016

4312721365_aa41c18cea_mFrom the 6th to the 10th of September 2016, the 27th annual international EURALEX Congress will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia. This conference is being organized by the Lexicographic Centre at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The EURALEX Congress is designed to bring together lexicographers, software developers, publishers, and researchers. The motto of the 2016 Congress is “Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity”.

The deadline for abstract submissions is the 15th of October, 2015. Click here for a list of topics being accepted for presentation. Papers and posters may be presented in any European language. However, abstracts should be submitted in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.

For more on the organization, click here.

Global WordNet Conference, Bucharest Romania, January 27-30 2016

The 8th annual Global WordNet Conference will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from the 27th to the 30th of January, 2016. The purpose of this conference is to offer researchers and developers from around the world the chance to discuss their latest work in the development of wordnet.2218565333_2d0b766308_m

Hosted by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, the conference organizers are now accepting abstracts for papers addressing topics such as:

  • lexicography, onotologies and wordnets
  • semantic relations, components, and co-occurrence statistics
  • the integration of multi-wordnets in infrastructures such as CLARIN and LT networks

 

Proposals for tutorials are also welcome. The call for papers ends the 6th of September, 2015. Click here for more on this event.

Annual Conference of the Welsh Place-Name Society, Llanelwedd, October 3, 2015

On Saturday, the 3rd of October 2015, the Welsh Place-Name Society will be holding its Annual Conference and General Meeting at the Royal Welsh Showground in Llanelwed.

Flag_of_Wales_2.svgThe aim of the Society is twofold:

  • to promote the awareness, study, and understanding of Welsh Place-Names
  • to increase interest in and appreciation for the history, culture, and language of Wales

 

 

To become a member of the Society, complete the Membership Form. For more information, click here.

International Congress of Celtic Studies, Glasgow, July 13-17 2015

5156859128_62b1bca836_mRegistration closes today for the 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies, taking place from the 13th to the 17th of July 2015 at the University of Glasgow. Among the many outstanding presentations to be given are several papers on onomastics.

 

 

Three examples include:

  • Timothy Bridgeman (Binghamton University), “Names and Naming Conventions of Celtic Peoples in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia”
  • M. Joseph Wolf (University of Glasgow), “Exploring Manx Saint Dedications and Place-Names in the Wider Irish Sea Context”
  • Ken George (Cornish Language Board), “Assibilation and palatalization in Cornish: the evidence of place-names’

Click here for more on the congress and registration.

Workshop on Surnames, University of Leipzig, July 1 2015

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On the 1st of July 2015, the University of Leipzig will be holding a workshop on onomastics. The topic of the workshop will be on Leipzig Surnames which originate in a romance language (e.g. Italian, Spanish, French, etc.). The workshop will be held in German. The primary lecturer for this workshop will be Professor Dieter Kremer.… Read More

Online Workshop: Methodology for Terminology Work, Sept. 2-3 2015

8166397343_5f2f62c0a2_mFrom the 2nd of September to the 3rd of November 2015, the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain will be holding an online lexicography and language documentation workshop on “Methodology for Terminology Work”.

The focus of the workshop is on carrying out terminological projects based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT). All the phases of carrying out terminographic work will be presented, from project conceptualization to database construction and management. The minimum level of education required for participation is a MA.

Click here for more information.