We're pleased to share the details on our forthcoming SNSBI autumn day conference - which will be held in York on Saturday 19 October as a hybrid event. If you would like to present, please find initial details on the poster attached.
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
SNSBI Autumn Day Conference 2024: Names, creativity and innovation
Saturday 19 October 2024, King’s Manor, University of York and online (10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.)
Call for Papers
The SNSBI’s 2024 autumn day conference will be a hybrid event held at King’s Manor, University of York and online via Zoom. Invited speakers and their titles are:
- Dr. Harry Parkin (University of Chester): ‘Death by dictionary: a relationship between non-onomastic vocabulary, surnames, and surname death’
- Dr. Tania Styles (Oxford English Dictionary): ‘Old names, new words: names as etymons of words in the OED’
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers (with 5–10 minutes for questions) that address the conference theme of creativity and innovation in naming. Papers on any kinds of names and any period of naming are welcome. If you are interested in giving a paper, please email a title and abstract (250–300 words) to: confsec@snsbi.org.uk by 23 August 2024. Please also state whether you plan to attend in person or online. There will be no registration fee for speakers.
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