Place names have had a low priority in Norwegian linguistic research over the latest decades, and Sámi place names have always been a neglected field of study in all of the Sámi area. Even so, novel methods, theories, and technology have been developed that provide exciting new possibilities for interdisciplinary and comparative studies within this field. The present conference, which will be a contribution to UNs International year of indigenous languages, aims to summarize the status quo of research and requests for more knowledge about Sámi place names in the Nordic countries and North-West Russia, as well as to suggest a multidisciplinary way forward, starting with a sosioonomastic approach to Sámi sacred place names and past and present landscape use.

Registration deadline: November 1, 2019.

Research questions in this workshop include but are not limited to the following topics:

• Promotion and erasure of toponymical repertoires;
• Processes of Turkification & modes of resistance;
• Ottoman, néo-Ottoman, national and post-national historiographies;
• Actors involved in place naming: National leaders and cults of personality, role of the bureaucracy & local administrations, private sector, civil society, political parties;
• Gender and naming policies;
• Geographies of trauma & archaeologies of violence in the politics of naming;
• Methodologies and sources: archives, oral history, official and alternative cartographies;
• Labelling, marketization, commodification;
• Technologies of power & regime change;
• Time scales, moments of change and transition in place naming

The first day of the workshop is open to the public (program).

The second day is reserved to invited guests.

Dear colleagues,

The Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków, Poland), the Faculty of Polish Studies Jagiellonian University (Kraków Poland), the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia), the L’. Štúr Institute of Linguistics SAS (Bratislava, Slovakia), the University in Trnava (Slovakia), the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (Czech Republic) and the congress committee have the honor to invite you to take part in the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. The Congress will be held in Kraków (Poland) from August 23 to August 28, 2020. Detailed information is available at: https://icos2020.ijp.pan.pl.

A two-day conference of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names “Greek Onomastics East of the Mediterranean: Naming and Culture in the Roman Near East and the Greek Far East” will be held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford University, in June 28-29 2019.

Its convenors are Ted Kaizer ;Robert Parker  and Jean-Baptiste Yon. Attendance is open to all without charge but those wishing to attend should please inform Robert.Parker@new.ox.ac.uk.

Please find the programme here.

On Monday, June 3 2019, the Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names will be held. The day-long conference will take place in the Midrasha (Building 405), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. The conference is supported by the Faculty of Jewish Studies and the Koschitzky Fund, Bar-Ilan University.

The complete program may be downloaded here.

For information: Yigal.Levin@biu.ac.il

The Public is Welcome!