Programme of the conference "Traditional and New in Onomastics"

 Programme

Next week (September 10-11, 2024) the 23rd Slovak Onomastic Conference will be held in Prešov, Slovakia. The main conference topic is "Traditional and New in Onomastics".

Conference "Onomastics & Literature 2020" postponed

ICOS

Dear O&L members, colleagues and students of Literary Onomastics,

because of the current global COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to postpone our O&L Conference to October 2021. The conference will be held in Cagliari as planned this year and the topics tackled will be the same. In any event, we will inform you about further updates.

O&L, Editorial Board

For further information, please contact also:

Maria Giovanna Arcamone: magiarc@gmail.com

Giorgio Sale: giosale@uniss.it

http://oel.fileli.unipi.it/ – http://riviste.edizioniets.com/innt/index.php/innt

Call for papers: "Proper Names in the Interdisciplinary Context"

ICOS

Dear colleagues!

We are pleased to invite you to the 21st Slovak Onomastic Conference titled "Proper Names in the Interdisciplinary Context" to be held in Nitra at the Constantine the Philosopher University from 10 to 12 September 2019.

The study of names is fractured by interdisciplinary and methodological divisions. Proper names may be analysed from various linguistic aspects: morphological, lexical-semantic, dialectal, sociolinguistic, etymological, stylistic, etc. Onomastics also applies knowledge of other disciplines, such as history, ethnography, geography, literary science, psychology, sociology, translatology and others. Whereas, it enriches in return their scientific results.

At the conference, we expect to welcome not only professional onomatologists, but also researchers from other leading disciplines who are confronted with issues related to the use of the proper names.

Thematic areas of the conference are:

1. Theoretical issues of onomastics (interrelationship with leading disciplines such as history, archeology, geography, law, economics, psychology, sociology, literary science, aesthetics, semiotics, translatology, etc.)

2. Analysis of specific kinds of onyms (anthroponyms, toponyms and chrematonyms of various nations and regions, literary onomastics, translations of proper names, name-based historical sources, historical onomastics, socio-onomastics, psycho-onomastics, semiotics of proper names, etc.)

3. Onomastic terminology (literary onomastics, socio-onomastics, psycho-onomastics, areal onomastics, onomastic grammar, onomastic semantics, etc.)

Applications forms will be accepted until April 30, 2019 by e-mail onomastika2019@gmail.com (contact person Barbara Repková). The conference fee must be paid by 31 May 2019.

In the attachment, you will find the invitation and the application form.

Conference "The family between demographic and social changes" in Bologna

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Triennial conference S.I.De.S. 

"The family between demographic and social changes" 

Bologna, 24-26 October 2018 

Call for papers 

S.I.De.S. (Italian Society of Historical Demography) invites scientific proposals to the triennial conference "The family between demographic and social changes". The conference aims to highlight new directions, topics and perspectives related to the role of the family within the processes and demographic mechanisms. Nowadays a new dynamic and longitudinal approach characterizes the analysis of the family groups in historical demography, complementing the analysis of structural family classifications prevailing in the past. Due to the diversity of the subject, proposals that address the issue in a multidisciplinary way are welcome. S.I.De.S. also solicits comparative proposals, both in the Italian and European context. Regarding the covered period of time, historical contributions will be favoured, but studies and analyses that address the issue from a diachronic perspective, linking the past and the present, are not excluded a priori. The conference is organized, even if not exclusively, in following thematic sessions.

Family and naming practices 
Michaël Gasperoni, Vincent Gourdon, Cyril Grange

This session aims to analyze family practices of naming both children and adults (monastication, conversion and change of religion, name change for personal reasons, etc.), in an extended geographical area (Europe) and in a long-term perspective (Middle Ages – Modern Times). The session will privilege contributions that are not limited to listing and classifying names, but rather help to understand family or individual logics related to the name choice, the systems of representations and the strategies adopted among kin or within a social group to attribute and use certain names. The name choice was certainly made according to the circumstances, but also in connection with the moment and the way it became formally transmitted. For the latter, contexts of proclamation and registration in the sources will be the object of special attention. Medium or longterm studies are especially (though not exclusively) welcome. Issues to be raised, in particular: - The mechanisms of name transmission within the family, their evolution, social and spatial divergences. - The impact of social configurations on name choice and assignment: position among siblings and kin (within the age ranking and total number of siblings, etc.), legitimate or illegitimate birth, homogenitoriality, role and impact of family events (dead kin, migration, etc.). - Political, religious and social context: wars, authoritarian political regimes, secularization of civil records, access to nationality, integration or segregation of religious minorities, etc. - The use of names within the family (usual and unusual names, use of the name in intra-family exchanges, etc.).

Family relations and social change
Elisabetta Cioni

Marriage and family life cicle
Marcantonio Caltabiano, Stanislao Mazzoni

Family, well-being and health in the process of demographic modernization
Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Lucia Pozzi

Fragile families 
Matteo Manfredini, Francesco Scalone

Family, labour and economy in the Early Modern period (XVIth-XVIIIth centuries) 
Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro

Social "networks" and migratory "chains": family and mobility
Michele Nani

Proposals, eventually including the session, have to be sent to Stanislao Mazzoni (stanislao.mazzoni@gmail.com or smazzoni@uniss.it). The deadline is on the 21st May 2018. A proposal should include: data/methods, sources and first results.

Call for papers: "Names in Writing" Conference in Sweden

University of Gothenburg

NORNA:s 48th symposium

29–30 November 2018, University of Gothenburg and Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg

Call for papers

The study of writing has gained increasing importance within linguistics and culture studies in recent years. The field has widened substantially focusing not only on graphemics and spelling principles, but also on the mediality of writing, writing practices and social dimensions of writing. Within name studies, the study of writing has not yet been recognized as a field in its own right, even though written names have been a recurring subject of analysis. At the same time, there are studies outside the traditional field of name studies that focus on written names from several of the above named perspectives.

The theme of this symposium is names in writing. It will give scholars a chance to reflect on the significance of writing in the study of names and provide a platform to discuss approaches from different fields.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

• The graphemics of names, names and orthography
• Nomenclature
• Names in different writing systems
• Language development in written names
• Written names in language contact
• Typography and graphics of names
• Written name and identity
• Written name and authority
• Written names in the public sphere

We invite proposals for 20-minute paper presentations or for posters on any topic related to names in writing, from both modern and historical contexts. Please send an abstract of up to 300 words (excluding references) to namniskrift@sprak.gu.se by 20 February 2018. Include your name, email address and affiliation in your abstract. Feedback and letters of acceptance will be provided by 30 April 2018.

Invited speakers (confirmed):

• Johan Järlehed (University of Gothenburg)

• Damaris Nübling (University of Mainz)

        

Conference languages

Nordic languages, English

Publication

We plan to publish conference proceedings using a peer review process. An invitation for submission of contributions will be sent out separately after the conference.

Practical information

Practical information on organizational matters will be published here by January 2018.

The conference is arranged by the Department of Languages and Literatures, Gothenburg University, and Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg. Venue: Olof Wijksgatan 6, Gothenburg ("Gamla hovrätten").

Contact information

Organizing committee

Maria Löfdahl, Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg
Michelle Waldispühl, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg
Lena Wenner, Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg

Contact address

namniskrift@sprak.gu.se

Call for papers: "Onomastic investigations" by University of Latvia

Submission of presentation and application form
The application form should be submitted until February 1, 2018 by e-mail onomastica2012@gmail.com.

The notification will be sent by organizers until March 1, 2018.

Summary of the presentation in English (approx. 3500 characters) should be sent until April 1, 2018.

Articles based on presentations of the conference will be published in the compendium.

Proposed duration of oral presentation 20 minutes

Participation fee of the conference 30 Euro (the information for payment of the registration fee will be sent to the accepted participants by e-mail along with the decision on acceptance)

Our address Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia, Akadēmijas laukums 1-902, Rīga, LV-1050, Latvia

Telephone: +371 67213606

E-mail: onomastica2012@gmail.com

The Names Society of Southern Africa Conference

http://www.americannamesociety.org/the-names-society-of-southern-africa-conference-bloemfontein-south-africa-september-20-22-2016/

The Names Society of Southern Africa Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, September 20-22, 2016

The Names Society of Southern Africa (NSSA) will be holding its 19th annual conference from the 20th to the 22nd of September 2016 at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Interested attendees are encouraged to register by the 14th of August deadline to ensure a place.

Second call for papers

19^th NSSA International Conference:
Symbolism and Instrumentality in Naming
Organised by Unit for Language Facilitation and Empowerment and the NSSA
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
20–22 September 2016

Download call here

The Names Society of Southern Africa (NSSA) and the Unit for Language Facilitation and Empowerment at the University of the Free State cordially invite proposals for the next bi-annual international conference.

Date: 20–22 September 2016
Venue: Equitas Building, UFS main campus, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Conference page: http://conferences.ufs.ac.za/default.aspx?DCode=735
Abstract submissions and registrations are done on-line on the conference page
Topic of the conference: Symbolism and Instrumentality in Naming
Language of the symposium: English

The naming of objects and the use of names is part of the daily routine of humanity.  The study of names can fall within any discipline (for example linguistics, history, geography) and there is a variety of themes within the study of names, naming and naming systems.

The focus of this conference is on the symbolism and instrumentality in naming. Symbolism, as coined by poet Paul Verlaine in 1885 (French: symboliste) refers to the practice of representing things with symbols. What role does this play in the naming of objects and what instruments are used to name?

Abstracts (300-500 words) in the following (but not limited to) categories of research:
• Anthroponyms  (i.e. personal names; names in religion; nicknames, etc.)
• Geographical Names (i.e. toponyms and place names)
• Names in history
• Literary onomastics (the use of names in literature)
• Brand names
• Politics of naming in a public sphere

Scientific council and paper selection committee:
• Theodorus du Plessis (RSA): Director, Unit for Language Facilitation and Empowerment, University of the Free State
• Adrian Koopman (RSA): University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Bertie Neethling (RSA): University of the Western Cape
• Eventhough Ndlovu (RSA): Research Fellow, University of the Free State
• Johan Lubbe (RSA): Research Fellow, University of the Free State
• Johan Moll (RSA): Research Fellow, University of the Free State
• Lucie Möller (RSA): Research Fellow, University of the Free State
• Peter Raper (RSA): Research Fellow, University of the Free State

Keynotes:
• Prof Thenjiwe Meyiwa (RSA): Registrar, Durban University of Technology
• Prof Peter Raper (RSA): Research Fellow and Extraordinary Professor (Linguistics), University of the Free State

Important dates:
• 1 March 2016 Registrations and abstract submissions open
• 30 June 2016 Deadline for submission of abstracts
• 15 July 2016 Early Bird registrations close
• 14 August 2016 Registrations close
Conference fees (R)
Early Bird (academic): R 2,250
Early Bird (student):        R 1,000
Standard (academic): R 2,750
Standard (student): R 2,000
Conference proceedingsThere will be no conference proceedings per se. Authors are invited to submit their papers to Nomina Africa, accredited journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa.
Queries
Please contact the organisational committee with any queries: kongresETFB@ufs.ac.za

The Council of Geographic Names Authorities (CGNA) Annual Conference

http://www.americannamesociety.org/the-council-of-geographic-names-authorities-cgna-annual-conference-richmond-va-may-2017/

The Council of Geographic Names Authorities (CGNA) Annual Conference, Richmond, VA, May 2017

The Council of Geographic Names Authorities (CGNA) is a professional conglomerate of state and federal government agencies working together to promote the standardization of the names of geographic features for official use throughout the United States. Each year, the CGNA holds a conference for scientists, governmental policy-makers, and members of the general public. The conference program includes toponymic workshops, academic papers, and group discussions. According to CGNA officials, the organization’s next annual conference will be held in Richmond, Virginia during the week of May 10, 2017.

http://cogna50usa.org/2017_Richmond.html

Planning is underway for the next Council of Geographic Names Authorities annual conference.  The conference will be held in Richmond, VA, for May 8 - 12, 2017 at the Library of Virginia.  For the 2017 conference there will be a slight change in the schedule of events.  The arrival and opening reception will be on Monday, May 7 with the sessions on Tuesday through Thursday with a closing reception Thursday evening with a speaker.  The optional Toponymic Tour will be held on Friday.  Sandy Farrell is working on possible optional tours and suggestions of personal activities.

A block of rooms has been arranged at the Hilton Richmond Downtown.  The room rate for single or double is $135.00 plus taxes per night.  We could not get the government rate for the entire block due to a limited number of rooms that the hotel sets aside at the government rate and competition from other groups.

Here are some helpful links regarding what to do in the Richmond, Virginia area. The dinning guide is a great map of the city. 

Visit Richmond:  www.visitrichmondva.com/

Downtown experiences:  www.venturerichmond.com/experience/index.html

Downtown Dining Guide Map as of December 2015:    www.venturerichmond.com/pdfs/diningguide.pdf

Links to Richmond museums, Historic Richmond, monuments and cemeteries, gardens:  www.richmondgov.com/common/Visitors.aspx

Just to whet your appetite: www.richmond.com/food-drink/restaurant-news/article_88c89fdc-ba36-11e5-a2a2-9b6a686333d3.html

And, The Best 10 Dive Bars in Richmond, VA:  www.yelp.com/search?cflt=divebars&find_loc=Richmond%2C+VA

Call for paper: Session on Toponymy at the 28th International Cartographic Conference

http://www.americannamesociety.org/call-for-papers-28th-international-cartographic-conference-icc/

The official call for papers for the 28th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) is now open. Researchers working within the areas of cartography and geography are invited to submit abstracts for formal posters or papers. A collection of refereed conference papers will be published in a Springer book. Selected papers will also be invited for submission to one of the official ICA journals: The International Journal of Cartography, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Cartographica, and The Cartographic Journal.

Among the many themes scheduled, submissions for a session on Toponymy (T31) are also being solicited. The topics to be dealt with in T31 are “place names as cultural heritage”, “place-name conflicts”, and “toponymic field work and documentation”. The deadline for abstract submission is the 26th of October 2016.

The ICC will be held in Washington, D.C. from the 2nd to the 7th of July 2017.

Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction – Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography

http://www.igdd.org/international-conference-spatial-boundaries-and-transitions-in-language-and-interaction-perspectives-from-linguistics-and-geography/

International Conference: Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction – Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography

11. Juli 201611. Juli 2016 von Stefan Rabanus

International Conference: Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction – Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography

April 23-28, 2017, Monte Verità, Ascona

Conference website: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries

Spatial boundaries can be considered as real or imaginary lines separating two things. Hence we may find natural, social, linguistic or geographical boundaries. Boundaries are often visualized on maps, and the scientific discipline most obviously concerned with them is geography. Within linguistics, the fields of dialectology and typology are traditionally concerned with boundaries, in that they mark linguistic areas on maps. Aside from this local scale, interactional spaces emerge in concrete social situations. It is this micro level of face-to-face interaction and its delimination of being „inside“ and „outside“ that provides the focus of interactional linguistics. Linguistic boundaries are never clear-cut, but are better characterised as overlapping transitional spaces because of myriads of interaction episodes arising from migration and urbanisation. Moreover, human interaction is being transformed by new communication technologies dissolving physical boundaries, while socio-cultural and linguistic ones may persist.

The interdisciplinary symposium „Spatial boundaries and transitions in language and interaction“, organized by the University Research Priority Program (URPP) „Language and Space“ (University of Zurich) will combine perspectives from geography and linguistics, bringing together eminent experts and highly qualified young researchers from various linguistic fields (including contact linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and conversation analysis); cultural and human geography, anthropology, and geographical information science. It will address the role of boundaries and transitions at different levels, theoretically as well as empirically, and will bring focus to the methodological underpinnings of a wide range of relevant approaches.

Core Topics and Sessions:
The relevant disciplinary perspectives with regard to spatial boundaries will be covered by talks from eminent experts. These include the roles of spatial boundaries within linguistic areas, within human geography, within interactional spaces, and within GIScience. The core topics of the conference will be developed within four sessions dedicated to different ways of conceiving, and representing spatial boundaries. The sessions will be introduced by renowned experts in their field of research. An evening talk open to the interested public will discuss very current issues of migration, borders and boundaries from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Invited Speakers:
Peter Auer
Christian Berndt
Nick Enfield
Frans Gregersen
Tom Güldemann
Setha Low
Dan Montello
Barbara Tversky
Ruth Wodak

We call for papers in the following sessions:

Session 1 will discuss the ways in which physical boundaries are treated in linguistics, conversation analysis, social geography and the social sciences. Physical boundaries are most prominent as natural boundaries (such as mountains or rivers) but also comprise built boundaries in terms of architecture (leading to entities such as cities, districts, buildings or rooms). Physical boundaries are known to have impacts on linguistic and social differences and are accordingly claimed to establish relevant linguistic and social areas ranging from face to-face interactional spaces to regional communities. Nevertheless, their status as material givens has long been challenged from different points of view. Take, for instance, the classical sociological argument that boundaries should not be taken as spatial facts with social impact but as social facts with spatial forms. The theoretical as well as methodological and empirical question then is to account for the social construction of boundaries without neglecting their physical and material manifestations. Talks related to this question may address the formation of physical boundaries within concrete settings of face-to-face interaction, within urban public spheres or larger regional areas.

Session 2 is dedicated to boundaries of linguistic areas and socio-cultural interaction. It focuses on factors that play a role in shaping external and internal boundaries of linguistic areas. Determining the boundaries of linguistic areas is a notoriously difficult task. The main reason for this is that linguistic areas are complex multi-faceted constructs. For instance, areas with shared linguistic features are not necessarily congruent with climate zones or areas with shared socio-cultural values. At the level of interpersonal interaction, intergroup attitudes can override the general tendency of interlocutors to converge in conversation and therefore contribute to the maintenance of boundaries. We explicitly encourage a multi-disciplinary dialogue, in order to increase our understanding of the interaction between linguistic, socio-cultural, and ecological factors that may impede contact between speakers of different languages or language varieties and therefore contribute to shaping the boundaries of linguistic areas.

Session 3 is concerned with the encoding of space in language describing geographical objects, such as mountains and valleys, and relationships between them. How are such places referred to in language? Is their linguistic categorization clear-cut or vague, on which factors does this depend and what implications does this have for communication? Talks in this session will address categorization of geographic objects from multiple perspectives including (cognitive) semantics, deixis and expression of spatial relations in language, linguistic diversity and onomastics, and work linking representations of geographic objects to language.

Session 4 concerns shifting boundaries in time and space, the diffusion and disappearance of linguistic features in dialect contact (with regard to syntax, morphology, phonology, and the lexicon), but also the dissolution of boundaries as in virtual space or as a consequence of migration. As mobility and migration are at last blurring the boundaries between linguistic regions, how do people describe themselves and how does this conform to regions as they are conventionally thought of? In a wider perspective, research questions in this session also concern self assignment and identity construction: what labels do we assign ourselves in cultural, ethnic and linguistic terms? Topics of this session may also include: qualitative and quantitative methods in linguistic geography and variational linguistics, the description/determination of boundaries with regard to linguistic change.
See the PDF-version of the call for papers for submission details and further information:

http://www.spur.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:0c8bb3a1-39d2-4b21-bea0-585db54f737e/CfpBoundaries2017-MonteVerita.pdf

Organization:


Elvira Glaser, Heiko Hausendorf (both University of Zurich, Department of German Studies and URPP Language and Space), Paul Longley (University College London, Department of Geography), Agnes Kolmer, Charlotte Meisner, Raffaela Zaugg (URPP Language and Space)

Scientific Committee:
Wolfgang Behr, Christa Dürscheid, Elvira Glaser, Susanne Günthner, Jonathan Harrington, Heiko Hausendorf, Christian Heath, Marianne Hundt, Wolfgang Kesselheim, Alfred Lameli, Adam Ledgeway, Angelika Linke, Paul Longley, Anke Lüdeling, Damaris Nübling, Dennis Preston, Ross Purves, Hanna Ruch, Joe Salmons, Tanja Samardžić, Daniel Schreier, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Bernhard Tschofen, Rik van Gijn, Richard Watts, Robert Weibel, Paul Widmer

Contact:
URPP Language and Space
University of Zurich
Freiestrasse 16
CH-8032 Zürich
Phone: +41 44 634 57 47
E-Mail: boundaries2017@spur.uzh.ch

Call for Papers: ANS Conference Special Panel on Onomastics Beyond Academia

http://www.americannamesociety.org/call-for-papers-ans-conference-special-panel-on-onomastics-beyond-academia/

The ANS is inviting abstract submissions for a special panel on “Onomastics Beyond Academia” for the 2017 annual conference to be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America. The purpose of the panel is to highlight professional applications of onomastics outside of the university setting.


All professional names enthusiasts are invited to submit an abstract for a 20-minute presentation. Abstracts proposals should answer one or more of the following questions:

1. How did your training in onomastics help your professional life, outside of academia (e.g. finding a job or building your own business)?
2. How do you work with onomastic data in your profession?
3. What are some of the most interesting challenges which you (and your colleagues) face in using names data?
4. What new markets are opening for names enthusiasts?
5. What practical recommendations would you give to other names enthusiasts who are interested in working outside of academia?

To submit a proposal, simply send a 250-word abstract proposal and a 100-word professional biography to Laurel Sutton [laurel@catchwordbranding.com] by the 15th of July 2016. For organizational purposes, please be sure to include the phrase “ANS 2017: Panel” in the subject line of your email.


All proposals will be subjected to blind review. Official notification of proposal acceptances will be sent on or before September 30, 2015. All authors whose papers have been accepted must be current members of the ANS and need to register with both the ANS and the Linguistic Society of America. Please feel free to contact Laurel Sutton should you have any questions or concerns.
We look forward to receiving your Submission!

Сonference "Names of north-east England and beyond"

http://snsbi.org.uk/2016_Newcastle.html

SNSBI 2016 Autumn day conference  —  Saturday October 15, 1000–1700

The SNSBI 2016 Autumn day conference on Names of north-east England and beyond will be held on Saturday 10th October 2015 at the Stephenson Suite in the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne (Neville Hall, Westgate Road, NE1 1SE).



The programme will include papers on place-names and personal names, with an emphasis on north-east England and southern Scotland. Speakers are:

• Paul Cullen on locative surnames of Northumberland
• Peter McClure on surnames like Northumbrian Surtees and Del Strother
• Fiona Edmonds on Gaelic place-names and personal names in north-eastern England
• Diana Whaley on the naming of Northumberland forts and castles
• Leonie Dunlop on coastal names of Berwickshire
• Simon Taylor & Alison Grant on names of islands and rocks in the Firth of Forth

The day will begin with a brief introduction to the Mining Institute, and end with a walk around historic Newcastle led by Colm O'Brien. The Mining Institute is in Neville Hall, a Grade-II*-listed Victorian Gothic building 3 minutes walk from Newcastle Central Station. Please note that the venue is on the first floor, presently without lift.
The registration fee, including lunch, is £15 for members of SNSBI, SANT and Explore, £18 for non-members. Please book your place by 8th October by completing this form and sending it, with a cheque, to: Julia Stanbridge, 5 St Edwards Drive, Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 1AW. The form can also be returned by email to treasurer at snsbi.org.uk. Payment can be made using Paypal below.

25th Annual Conference of Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

SOCIETY FOR NAME STUDIES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND 25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 15–18 April 2016

The 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland will be held at Maynooth University, Ireland, from Friday 15 April to Monday 18 April 2016. The Society exists to promote the study of names, both place-names and personal names. This year's conference is being organised by Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn of the Department of Modern Irish, Maynooth University and Dr Aengus Finnegan, School of Culture and Communication, University of Limerick. If you are interested in attending the conference, please contact Aengus Finnegan (confsec@snsbi.org.uk).

Conference fees:

Day delegate, member £20/

30 per day (Sat. & Sun.) Day delegate, non-member £25/

35 per day (Sat. & Sun.) Dinner (excluding wine) £20/

25 Sunday excursion £10/

15 Additional information regarding the conference can be found on the Society's website: www.snsbi.org.uk

Please see the programme below.

Programme

DÉ hAOINE/ FRIDAY 15 April 2016

3.30pm          Clárú/Registration

6.00-8.00pm       Dinnéar/Dinner     (Pugin Hall)

Léacht an Bhreathnaigh/Paul Walsh Lecture (Renehan Hall)

8.00-9.00pm       Mícheál Ó Mainnín (QUB) 'Annexing Irish names to the English tongue: language contact and the anglicisation of Irish place-names'

DÉ SATHAIRN/ SATURDAY 16 April 2016

Oscailt/Opening (Renehan Hall)

9.00-9.20am       Ruairí Ó hUiginn (Maynooth U.) 'The Irish language and onomastics'

 Session 1: Scottish & Irish Personal Names

9.20-9.50am    Alice Crook (U. of Glasgow) 'From Abram Meassone Mansone to Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce Nivison: the usage of middle names in Early Modern Scotland'

09.50-10.20am    Sofia Evemalm Kalamakis (U. of Glasgow) 'Theorising the study of personal names as place-name elements in a Lewis context'

10.20-10.50am    Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUI Galway) 'Morose and mirthful: adjectival epithets in Irish personal names'

10.50-11.10am    Tae agus Caifé / Tea and Coffee

Session 2: Irish Personal Names & Surnames

11.10-11.40am    Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich (Placenames Br.) 'Personal names and surnames in Wicklow as found in the 16th century Fiants'

11.40-12.10pm Niall Comer (Ulster U.)  'Personal names and surnames in the barony of Coleraine'

12.10-12.40pm Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Mich al Boleslav Mechura & Katie Ní Loingsigh (DCU) 'Towards a database of Irish surnames'

12.40-2.00pm   Lón/Lunch    (Pugin Hall)

Session 3: Irish Place-Names

2.00-2.30pm    Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill  (Placenames Br.) 'Some fishery names on the River Shannon'

2.30-3.00pm   Conchúr Mag Eacháin   (DCU) 'Dúchas.ie as a toponymical resource'

3.00-3.30pm   Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig  (Placenames Br.) 'The element machaire

 in Irish place-names'

3.30-4.00pm    Tae agus Caifé  /  Tea and Coffee

Session 4: Aoiléacht/Guest Lecture

4.00-5.00pm Fiachra Mac Gabhann (Castlebar College of Further Ed.) 'A turf-bank of toponymy: Mayo place-names and the publication of Logainmneacha Mhaigh Eo'

5.00-6.00pm Walking tour of campus/Maynooth Castle

6.30-8.00pm Dinnéar na Comhdhála /Conference Dinner (Pugin Hall)

Session 5: Project Reports

8.00-8.15pm  Josefin Devine  (Umeå U. & Institute for language and folklore, Uppsala)   'Ubbe, Gök and Fjäder. Personal names within place-names in the county of Jämtland, Sweden'

8.15-8.30pm   Justin Ó Gliasáin & Mairéad Nic Lochlainn  (DCU) 'Project report on logainm.ie – the Placenames Database of Ireland and Meitheal Logainm.ie

8.30-8.45pm   Carole Hough   (U. of Glasgow) 'Project report: Cognitive Toponymy: People and Places in Synergy'

8.45-9.00pm   Postgraduate Workshop Report  (Rebecca Gregory & Alice Crook)

DÉ DOMHNAIGH/ Sunday 17 April 2016

9.15-10.00am AGM (Renehan Hall)

Session 6: English Place-Names

10.00-10.30am  Eleanor Rye  (U. of Nottingham)  & Stuart Brookes  (UCL) 'New approaches to old roads: travel and communication in Anglo Saxon England'

10.30-11.00am   Rebecca Gregory  (U. of Nottingham) 'The specificity of generics: semantic development and differentiation in some East Midland field-name elements'

11.00-11.20am  Tae agus Caifé/Tea and Coffee

Session 7:  Place-Names & Streetnames

11.20-11.50am   Pat McKay  (QUB) 'Heaney Country: celebration of place- names in the poetry of Seamus Heaney'

11.50-12.20pm   Graham Collis  (U. of Nottingham)   'St. Patrick – born in the Pas-de-Calais?'

12.20-12.50pm   Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD) 'Irish-language street-names pre 1900: sources and functions'

12.50-1.40pm   Lón/Lunch

1.40-6.00pm   Turas go Baile Átha Troim  /Excursion to Trim

6.30-8.00pm   Dinnéar/Dinner   (Pugin Hall)

Session 8: Hydronyms

8.00-8.30pm  Keith Briggs  (Independent) 'The river-names of Suffolk'

8.30-9.00pm Paul Tempan   (Independent) 'Gaoth – a Brittonic element in Irish hydronyms?'

DÉ LUAIN/   Monday 18 April 2016

10.00-11.00am Committee meeting