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Member News
Introducing the New ANS Website!
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Exciting new features available through the website:
- conference information
- calls for papers
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New ANS Website Launching Monday
Get excited… the new ANS Website will be live this Monday, 5/4/15!
U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ 125th Anniversary Celebration
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names invites you to celebrate its 125th anniversary, with a one-day symposium about geographic names: Traditions and Transition.
Friday, September 18, 2015; U.S. Library of Congress, Washington DC
The symposium will be followed by an open house and special exhibit from the U.S. Library of Congress.… Read More
Call for Papers: 54th Annual Names Institute
The 54th Annual Names Institute will be held at Baruch College (CUNY), Lexington Avenue @ 24th St., on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Abstracts on all aspects of names—personal, geographic, commercial & trade, literary—are welcomed by April 15th, to Professor Wayne Finke at wayne.finke[at]baruch.cuny.edu… Read More
Call for Papers: Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Names
Call for Papers – Deadline 15 April 2015.
Special Issue of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics devoted to
Names, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
The American Name Society is currently inviting abstracts
for scientific papers providing an analysis of the names found in
contemporary and classic literary works of science-fiction, fantasy,
or horror.… Read More
Call for Papers Open
The next ANS conference is January 7-10th, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
The call for papers is now open.… Read More
ANS is on twitter!
Follow ANS at @AmNameSociety
Use #names and #onomastics to find other interesting information about names.… Read More
Presidential Greeting
Dear ANS Members,
During the January 2015 annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, I had the honor of accepting the nomination to become the new President of the ANS. Within this capacity, I have set many goals. Chief among them is doing everything within my power to improve the services which ANS members receive, increase the public visibility of our society, and support the onomastic research community.
… Read More