Call for Papers: Onoma 55

ICOS

Dear colleagues, We are inviting you to contribute to a thematic Onoma volume “Personal Names and Cultural Reconstructions”.

Personal names may show belonging to a specific cultural sphere or linguistic group. Although there are many names common to several cultures, such as names from the main religions, many personal names reveal which part of the world we come from. As personal names often are preserved well in historical documents, they can also help to examine and rebuild past cultures. This volume aims to explore, how names show and create this cultural background, within both historical and contemporary contexts.

We are now calling for article abstracts. In the abstract, you should give the title and a brief description of your article: aim and focus, data and methods, possible preliminary results, and connection to the volume theme. The abstract should be no longer than 300 words. Please send your abstract before November 1 st 2019 by filling in this e-form.

The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts during November. Full article manuscripts should be submitted for the peer-review until the end of January 2020. The final volume will be published during the summer 2020.

Onoma is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS). The volume will be available online with open access. For more information and past volumes, see Onoma’s website: http://onomajournal.org/

If you have any questions concerning the volume, feel free to email lasse.j.hamalainen@helsinki.fi.

Lasse Hämäläinen, Jaakko Raunamaa and Johanna Virkkula

Guest editors of the volume

Report about the conference "Personal Names and Cultural Reconstructions"

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Text: Vilma Lauhakangas & Manu Paavilainen
Photographs: Oona Raatikainen

The writers are students at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki. They worked as conference assistants at the conference.

The conference of Personal Names and Cultural Reconstructions was held at the University of Helsinki on August 21ー23 2019. The venue of the conference was Metsätalo (“forest house”), an 80-year-old building that once introduced its students to sciences that were far from linguistics. What is interesting about the decor of Metsätalo is that itshows all the species of wood native to Finland. During the first day of the conference, it was palpable that the beautiful wooden architecture had made a nice first impression on the visitors... 

Call for Papers: Personal names and cultural reconstructions (Finland, 2019)

ICOS

Date: 21–23 August 2019
Place: University of Helsinki, Finland
Host: University of Helsinki and the research project: Personal name systems in Finnic and beyond: Reconstructing the concepts of name giving in cultural layers of prehistory (funded by The Academy of Finland)
Deadline: 15 December 2018

We invite paper and poster proposals for this international conference, which will take place 21–23 August 2019 at the University of Helsinki. Papers of the conference should address anthroponymic systems and cultural reconstructions, broadly speaking, and contributions to various names and naming systems in different languages and cultures are welcome. Especially papers with a specific emphasis on reconstructing the historical strata and cultural contacts reflected in personal names are encouraged.

This conference creates and facilitates new research openings and cooperation in the interdisciplinary field of anthroponymic systems by bringing together scholars from different countries and universities worldwide to discuss and debate a range of topics.
The theme of the conference draws increased international attention: the issues of personal names in various historical and cultural settings are increasingly addressed by researchers in linguistics, onomastics, history, ethnology and other disciplines.

Keynote speakers:
- Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow
- Frog, University of Helsinki
- Aleksandar Loma, University of Belgrade and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Guidelines for ses­sions
- Paper sessions
A paper session consists of presentations where each participant presents preferably about 15-20 minutes, which is followed by a 10-minute general discussion. Every paper session has a chairperson who is initiating a discussion and posing questions about the presentation.
- Poster sessions
During poster sessions each presenter will be given 5 minutes to present his/her poster. Afterwards, the delegates can walk around, ask questions or start an in-depth discussion with the presenters. The posters will be spread all over the hallway.

How to sub­mit a pro­posal: Open the e-form and follow the guidelines.

The deadline for submitting paper, panel, and roundtable proposals is 15 December 2018.
Notification of acceptance for paper, panel, and roundtable proposals will be sent by email by 15 February 2019. The abstracts of accepted papers and/or posters will be published on the conference website.

For more information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/personal-names-and-cultural-recon...

Organisation committee: Terhi Ainiala, Denis Kuzmin, Jaakko Raunamaa, Janne Saarikivi and Johanna Virkkula.