2026 American Name Society Annual Meeting, February 21, 2026
The 2026 ANS Annual Conference will be held online, via Zoom, on 21 February 2026. Registration is now open here. There is a new conference fee structure that is discounted based on annual income. Read more about the conference fee here. The conference fee pays for the conference and the annual operations of the American Name Society and its journal NAMES.
Event Details
The American Name Society Annual Meeting for 2026 will be held online on February 21, 2026 using the Zoom platform.
It is accessible via Mac or PC. The meeting will require a passcode, which will be sent via email to all registrants and presenters by February 20th.
We have been working hard to set up a schedule that will work globally, and this means that some presenters will be scheduled at times outside of normal working hours.
The agenda for the meeting includes presentations by onomastic scholars from around the world, along with our annual Business Meeting and a report on the state of our journal, NAMES. All are welcome to the conference – you do not need to be a member to attend!
The Book of Abstracts will be available here before the conference.
Click here to access the schedule.
We hope to see you there!
ANS Panel at the Linguistic Society of America Conference
The ANS held a panel at the LSA 2025 conference, which was held 9 to 12 January 2025 in Philadelphia.
For further information, please contact Dr. Brandon Simonson (info@americannamesociety.org)
For more information about the 2025 conference, click here.
ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference
The ANS will host a panel at the MLA 2025 conference, which will be held 9 to 12 January 2025 in New Orleans.
For further information, please contact Dr. Anne W. Anderson (AWAnderson.Editing@gmail.com).
For more information about the 2024 conference, click here.
Past ANS Conferences
For programs from past American Name Society conferences, click here.
Other Onomastic Conferences
For other onomastic conferences, click here.