International Training on Toponymy "Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage"

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Overview

The International Training on Toponymy is one of the goals set out in the UNGEGN Asia South-East (ASE) Division Work Plan 2019-2022 to be achieved during Indonesia's chairmanship. Initially, the training should have been held in conjunction with the 8th Divisional Meeting of the UNGEGN ASE Division in 2020. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the training had to be postponed for safety reasons.

Indonesia's chairmanship ended in April 2022 during the 10th Divisional Meeting of the UNGEGN ASE Division. However, Indonesia is still committed to convening the International Training on Toponymy in 2023, as discussed with the UNGEGN Secretariat and the UNGEGN Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy.

The International Training on Toponymy is open to all UNGEGN member countries, with a limit of up to 75 international participants. The training is co-organized by the Indonesian Geospatial Information Agency (Badan Informasi Geospasial - BIG), the UNGEGN Secretariat, and the UNGEGN Working Group on Training Courses in Toponymy. The training will be held face-to-face in Bali, as it has a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage that would suit the theme of the training: Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage. As part of the training activities, Indonesia designed a one-day visit to several cultural geographical features, which will offer participants a full immersion into the field collection of geographical names.

Trainers

Module 1: Peder Gammeltoft (Norway)

Module 2: Cecille Blake (USA) and Ade Komara Mulyana (Indonesia)

Module 3: Tjeerd Tichelaar (The Netherlands)

Module 4: Ni Komang Aniek Purniti (Indonesia)

Module 5: Peder Gammeltoft (Norway) and Harry Ferdiansyah (Indonesia)

Module 6: Jasper Hogerwerf (The Netherlands).

Onomastics Training Week by Persia & Babylonia project

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From 29 May to 1 June, the Persia & Babylonia project (ERC project at Leiden University) is organising an interactive Onomastics Training Week in Venice, Italy. During this week, participating graduate students (MA/PhD) will learn from experts about the many-faceted name material in Neo-Babylonian and Late Babylonian sources. This includes names in other languages such as Egyptian, Anatolian, Greek, Old Persian and Elamite. Each topic will be explored in a lecture, followed by a workshop allowing students to deal with concrete examples.

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Registration

As a graduate student (MA/PhD), you can register to join the training week free of charge! Please send an e-mail with your name and affiliation to persiababylonia@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

Please note that travel and accomodation is not provided.

Regional Training Program in Toponymy, 19-24 March 2018

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Regional Training Program in Toponymy, including Marine Toponymy, Manila Philippines, 19-24 March 2018

1. Objectives

The objective of the Regional Training Program in Toponymy is to support capacity building for members of the UNGEGN Asia South East Division responsible for the standardization of geographical names. The course is aimed at increasing the knowledge and understanding of the principles and concepts of geographical naming and the standardization of a country’s toponyms with special emphasis on marine toponymy; transfer methods and best practices in geographical names data collection; toponymic database building, the design and development of gazetteers, geographical names servers, practices in cartographic applications and procedures in creating and managing a geographical names bureau.



The course is coordinated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, UNGEGN working group on Training Courses in Toponymy,  in collaboration with the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Philippines (NAMRIA).



2. Draft Training Programme 




3. Resource Guide 




4. Course Participants List (forthcoming)