Friday, October 18, 2019

Joint Session with the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) and the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada

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Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2020

Meeting Description:

The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) and the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH) will hold their annual meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, May 30-31, 2020, Western University in London, Ontario.




They welcome abstract proposals on any onomastic theme in the Spanish-speaking world, including but not limited to:

- Personal names (e.g. family names, nicknames, naming trends and systems, etc.)
- Place names (e.g. streets, settlements, rural names, rivers, etc.)
- Names in literature
- Names in society (e.g. identity, power, perceptions, attitudes, forms of address, etc.)
- Names and linguistic landscape (e.g. public road signs, advertising billboard signs, street signs, commercial shop signs, etc.)

Call for Papers:

Proposal submission process:

1. Abstracts of 150-250 words should be sent as an email attachment (word or PDF format) to Grace Gomashie (ggomashiuwo.ca) and Dr. Lauren Beck (lbeckmta.ca).
2. Proposals should include “Onomastics” in the subject line of the email.
3. All submissions must include an abstract title, the full name(s) of the author(s), the author affiliation, mailing address and email address in the body of the abstract.
4. DEADLINE: Proposals must be received by January 25, 2020.
5. Contributors selected for the sessions must be members of both CSSN and ACH in order to present their papers.
6. Abstracts may be submitted in English, French or Spanish.

For further information, please contact Grace Gomashie (ggomashiuwo.ca) or Dr. Beck (lbeckmta.ca).

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