On July 17th, 2015, the fourth annual interdisciplinary workshop entitled “Onomastics and Terminology 4: Personal Names and Public Administration” will be held in Budapest, Hungary. Dedicated to Hungarian-related legal issues of personal names, the workshop is being co-sponsored by the Terminology Council of the Hungarian Language, and the Society of Hungarian Linguistics, among others.

Topics include the basics of the Law on Personal Names, regulations governing Christian name choice and family name changes, the use of personal names in minority communities. Talks will be given by academic scholars and executives of public administration.

The language of the workshop is Hungarian. Click here for the conference program in Hungarian.

The 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG) will include a session on place names, historical toponymic mapping, and the contemporary reconstructions of place names in Europe and Palestine. This session will be held on the 6^th of July 2015. The ICHG will take place in London, at the Royal Geographical Society, from the 5^th to the 10^th of July 2015. Click here for more information.

The 5^th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe will be held from the 30^th of August to the 2^nd of September, 2015, in Budapest. The theme for this year’s conference is “Convergences and Divergences of Geography in Europe”.  Among the many topics to be explored is the Role of place names in geographical education. Click here for more information.

There are less than 200 days until the 5^th International Domain Name Conference in Paris, France from the 4^th to the 5^th of November 2015.

The conference discusses issues surrounding the legal, marketing, and technical aspects of domain naming. Click here for information and registration.

Old City of Jerusalem

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) will be holding its 35^th annual conference from the 6^th to the 10^th of July 2015, in Jerusalem.

Talks on Jewish Naming include:

•  “Jewish Names, Red Herrings, and Name Changes” by Philip Trauring
• “Jewish Surnames from North Africa” by Dr. Alexander Beider

Click here for more information.