First Names and Family Names in the Context of the Law on Personal Names and Onomastics, Budapest, Hungary, December 10, 2015

On the 10th of December, 2015, an interdisciplinary workshop entitled “First Names and Family Names in the Context of the Law on Personal Names and Onomastics” will be held in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop is organized by the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University.

Topics to be discussed include:

the right to name and the Court of Justice of the European Union
children’s right to their names
current regulations and trends in first name choices in Hungary
legal and linguistic issues involved in name changes in modern-day Hungary
valid rules of entering names in Hungarian official registers

Talks will be given by academic scholars of Law and Linguistics as well as ministerial executives and public administrators. The language of the workshop is Hungarian and the conference program in available in Hungarian..

Conference called “Seafaring: An Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the North Atlantic”, Denver, Colorado, November 3-5, 2016

The Department of English of the University of Denver will be hosting a special conference called “Seafaring: An Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the North Atlantic” from the 3rd to the 5th of November, 2016. Abstracts for the conference for sessions, seminars, workshops/forums are now being accepted.

Scientists whose work deals with naming and the cross-cultural and/or multi-linguistic relationships among people of the North Atlantic are encouraged to submit an abstract. The Medieval Association of Place and Space (MAPS) can provide more information on that event and on other events of potential interest to researchers working on cartography, geography, and onomastics.

Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco, California, March 29- April 2, 2016

Registration is now open for the 2016 conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) to be held in San Francisco, California from March 29th to April 2nd 2016. The meeting will be held in the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and will feature over 5,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips. Poster abstract submissions are due by the February 18th, 2016.

Association of Researchers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Conference, Brasov, Romania, September 21-24, 2016

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The Association of Researchers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics will be holding its 4th annual conference entitled the “Structure, Use, and Meaning”. The conference will be held from the 21st to the 24th of September 2016, in Braşov, Romania. The purpose of the conference is to reinforce a dialogue between researchers and practitioners.… Read More

Guild of One-Name Studies Conference, Birmingham, England, April 1-3, 2016

The Guild of One-Name Studies will be holding an international conference from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2016 at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, England. See the conference website for more information on the preliminary conference programme, conference registration, or the Guild itself.

Center for Language Research (CLAR) Conference, Rijeka, Croatia, June 3-5, 2016

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The Center for Language Research (CLAR) at the University of Rijeka, Croatia will be holding a conference from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2016. The official theme of CLAR2016 is “Perspectives on Language Planning and Policies.”

Paper proposals on any topic related to the domain of language planning and policies are invited by the 10th of January 2016 deadline.… Read More

International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use, and Me, Brasov, Romania, September 21-24, 2016

From the 21st to the 24th of September 2016, the 4th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use, and Me (SUM2016) will be held in Brasov, Romania. The purpose of this event is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners working in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics. Scholars working within the areas of lexicography and lexicology are encouraged to submit an abstract by the deadline on the 29th of February 2016.

10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, Manila, Philippines, June 1-3 2016

The 10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, AsiaLex2016, has been scheduled for the 1st to the 3rd of June 2016 in Manila, Philippines. Co-organized by the University of the Philippines-Diliman Department of Linguistics (UP-Lingg), the National University (NU), and the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), the thematic focus of this conference is the exploration of recent research trends and practices for lexicography and corpus-building in general and in relation to Asian languages.

The deadline for the call for papers is the 15th of January 2016.

Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions DUE 11/16/15

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Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions are due Monday, November 16, 2015.

Presenters for the 2016 ANS Conference who are eligible for and interested in applying for the ANS Emerging Scholar Award (ESA), should have received all pertinent information.

Please send submissions to the chair of this year’s ANS-ESA Selection Committee, Lisa Radding: raddinglisa [ @ ] gmail.com.… Read More

The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSMI) Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, April 15-18, 2016

The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSMI) will be holding its 25th annual Spring Conference from the 15th to the 18th of April 2016 at Maynooth University, a part of the National University of Ireland. Located on the outskirts of Dublin, access to the Maynooth campus is easily accessible from the Dublin Airport. In addition to the main conference, the event organizers will also be hosting a special postgraduate workshop.

The deadline for registration is the 15th of November 2015. Researchers interested in presenting a paper on personal or place naming are asked to email their title and abstract to submissions to confsec at snsbi.org.uk.