The International Geographical Union's 100th anniversary congress

 It is our pleasure, on behalf of the organizing committee, to announce the opening of the IGU 100th anniversary congress website. This exceptional congress, organized by the International Geographical Union and the French National Geography Committee, will be held in Paris from July 18th to July 22th 2022. Around the theme “Time for Geographers”, the congress will mark the 100th anniversary of the International Geographical Union.

Dates: 18th to 22th July 2022
Location: Paris
Theme: Time for Geographers
Website: https://www.ugiparis2022.org/index.php?langue=en&onglet=4
Everything you need to know is on the congress website: information about the congress scientific objectives and key dates for registration, session submission and abstract submission.

Timeline: 
Sessions submission: March-July 2021
Abstract submission: September-November 2021

Call for papers: Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names

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The Romano-Hellenic Division (RHD) of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) announces its 3rd International Scientific Symposium focused on 

“Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names”, 

in close cooperation with the Italian Geographic Military Institute and the Regional Council of Campania – Directorate General for the Government of the Territory.

 The event will be held in Napoli [Naples], Italia, from 22nd to 24th September 2021. Members of the UNGEGN, geographers, historians, linguists, planners and cartographers are cordially invited to take part in the symposium. Participation is free of charge. Language: English.

 Topics of the symposium are: 

• preservation of the toponymic heritage, 
• historical maps and toponymy, 
• genius loci and identity, 
• etymological studies, 
• place names of historical linguistic minorities, 
• vernacular place names, 
• new toponyms, 
• role of national and regional geographical names authorities.

 Announcements of papers and submissions of abstracts (max. 400 words – in English) may be e-mailed to the chairman of the RHD (see Registration form below) no later than May 30, 2021.

Extended abstracts should be e-mailed to the same addresses no later than June 29, 2021.

Scientific committee of the Symposium:

-       Andrea Cantile, Chair of the UNGEGN’s Romano-Hellenic Division and IGMI’s Commission for Italian Official Toponymy; University of Florence (Italia);

-       Simonetta Conti, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italia);

-       Monica Dumitrascu, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy (Romania);

-       Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Co-Convenor of the ICA-IGU Joint Commission on Toponymy (Austria);

-       Helen Kerfoot, Former Emeritus Scientist Natural Resources Canada, Honorary Chair of UNGEGN (Canada);

-       Cosimo Palagiano, Emeritus of Sapienza – University of Rome, Accademia dei Lincei, Co-Convenor of the ICA-IGU Joint Commission on Toponymy (Italia);

-       Domenico Proietti, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italia);

-       Annette C. Torensjö, Uppsala University, Convenor of the UNGEGN Working Group on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage (Sverige).

Under the auspices of:

Italian Association of Geographers

Italian Association of Geography Teachers

Italian Cartographic Association

Italian Centre for Historical and Geographical Studies

Italian Geographical Society

Society of Geographical Studies (Italia).

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Workshop "Changing Geographical Names as a Challenge for Research and Gazetteer Management"

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Marburg

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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Member of the Leibniz Association

Datum

09.09.2019 - 11.09.2019

Bewerbungsschluss

13.05.2019

Url

http://www.herder-institut.de

Von Christian Lotz

In many regions of the world, geographical names are the subject of heated debate. Often, they embody local or national identities; some names even express political or territorial claims. At the same time, gazetteers are a useful tool in everyday life and in research. However, existing gazetteers demonstrate great variation in content and metadata structure. These variations prove a severe hindrance to research that aims to compare data from different databases.

In 2019, researchers from the Herder Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig and the Justus Liebig University Giessen will start work on a project exploring the content and metadata structure of existing gazetteers. The project is financed by the Leibniz Association. The project team will bring together historians, geographers and computer scientists. At the first workshop of our project, we will address the following questions:

- What do the various disciplines expect of gazetteers, regarding their content and their metadata structure? What could be the lowest common denominators for gazetteers mirroring spatio-temporal changes in geographical names?
- How will research institutes, libraries, archives, governmental institutions and citizen science initiatives further develop existing gazetteers?
- What kinds of spatial and spatio-temporal data modelling support the creation of digital gazetteers and are therefore suitable for further collaborative development?
- What fruitful examples and possible perspectives for national and international exchange or cooperation can be identified, with regard to historical place names and gazetteers?

The project team will welcome colleagues from all over Europe and the world to contribute to the workshop. We explicitly invite researchers in both the humanities and sciences who are using, exploring and analysing gazetteers, as well as computer scientists who are further developing the metadata structure or managing the content of gazetteers.

The workshop will take place on 9th-11th September 2019 in Marburg, Germany. Please submit a short proposal highlighting the main aspects of your contribution (max. 300 words). Please add your contact details and a short biographical note. Feel free to suggest an appropriate format for your contribution, such as a presentation, round table, poster, etc.

Please send your proposal as PDF file, no later than 13th May 2019, to laura.gockert@herder-institut.de. We will contact successful applicants by the end of May. The Herder Institute will cover the costs of accommodation and travel.

For further details about our gazetteer project, see: 
https://www.herder-institut.de/go/bn6-18df6

Kontakt

Laura Gockert
Herder Institute

laura.gockert@herder-institut.de

Zitation

Changing Geographical Names as a Challenge for Research and Gazetteer Management. Research Issues and Perspectives for Future Development, 09.09.2019 – 11.09.2019 Marburg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 11.04.2019, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-39999>.

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