Call for Papers

2015 International Symposium on Place Names, South Africa, Sept. 16-17

13931644242_cf70039781_mThe 2015 International Symposium on Place Names is issuing its second official call for papers for its upcoming conference in the Free State Province of South Africa, to be held from the 16th to the 17th of September 2015.

This toponymic conference is soliciting papers which examine the role which place names play in human events and/or conceptualizations of the political, cultural, social, and demographic world around us. Potential sub-topics:

  • functions, motivations, and/or management of place names on maps
  • principles used for creating place names
  • social and/or historical dimensions of place names
  • principles for solving place-naming conflicts

 

The languages of the symposium are English and Afrikaans. A selection of the papers will be published as conference proceedings in a special edition of the Nomina Africa, the accredited journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa.

Click here for more information.

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.

Call for Papers: Journal of Literary Onomastics Special Issue

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Call for Submissions: Journal of Literary Onomastics 5 (2016)
(a special issue on place and place-names in the early Insular world)

The deeply rooted importance of landscape, place, and place-names is a shared characteristic throughout the Insular cultures of the early Middle Ages, ranging from the material to the literary. From examinations of the early Irish dindshenchas tradition to recent archaeological investigations into the role of landscape in socio-political structures, the study of place has begun to receive more critical attention.

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International Workshop: “(re)naming places, (re)shaping identities”, Naples, October 28-29 2015

3053563105_76520e66ae_mCall for Papers for the International Workshop, “(re)naming places, (re)shaping identities”.  The workshop is sponsored by the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies. It will take place from the 28th to the 29th of October 2015.

The deadline for 300 word abstracts and biographical sketches is the 30th of June 2015.  For more information, contact: lcaiazzo[@]unior.it

Workshop on the determinants of bestowing and using personal names, Germany, September 14-15, 2015

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From September 14th and 15th, 2015, the Akademie der Wissenscahft und Literatur will be holding an interdisciplinary workshop on the determinants of bestowing and using personal names (e.g. ethnoracial identity, socioeconomic status, and religion).  The deadline for receipt of abstracts is the 31st of May 2015.  For more information, click here.… Read More