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ICOS-23: last moment thoughts……….……………………………..2

Elections to the Board of Directors…………………………………..3

Reports on recent onomastic activities in Italy and Sweden...4 and 6

Calls for papers……………………………………………………......9

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ICOS-23

York University, Toronto, Canada, 17-22 August 2008

Third circular

See http://icos2008.yorku.ca/

Helpful hints from the organizers:

1) If you are coming to York University from the airport , please consult the information about this on our website. It is best to take a taxi.

2) Money exchange . It is easiest to change money while at the airport. If you have a card that will work in a automated money dispensing machine in North America, you will find some of these machines. There are also money exchange booths that exchange most currencies. Banks in the neighbourhood of York University will exchange money, but probably will only do so for currencies such as Euro, British Pound or American Dollar and they will only do so during banking hours.

3) If you have reserved a hotel room while at York University, please be aware that the hotels are not within easy walking distance. They are about five minutes by car and about half an hour or more on foot. So, you will probably need to use a taxi each time. Hotel accommodation is fine for people who are driving to the conference or for those who are renting a car.

THE AGENDA FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL BE PUBLISHED AT THE CONGRESS

Elections to the Board of Directors of ICOS

Elections for the following posts will take place at the General Assembly of ICOS, 21 August 2008, York University, Toronto, Canada:

President

Two Vice-Presidents

Treasurer

Secretary

Assistant Secretary and Web Officer [one post]

Six non-executive officers (also called at-large members)

The following candidates have been nominated and have formally accepted nomination:

Thank you to those members who have told us when they have changed their address or any other personal details. It makes the life of the Treasurer and Secretary much less problematic! Use email – it saves ICOS time and money.

A tous les collègues/To all colleagues/An alle Kolleg/innen

Dites-nous votre adresse pour courriel/Tell us your e-address

/Teilen Sie uns Ihre E-Adresse mit

The Secretary wishes to apologize for the problems in maintaining the ICOS web-site. Because of continuing technical difficulties, he can do this

only during visits to his old institution.

Members will notice nevertheless that some changes and additions have been made, and that it is more or less up to date as of 3 July 2008.

Reports on onomastic activities

Bericht

über die onomastische Tätigkeit

in Italien

Donatella Bremer

Seitdem wir uns in Dubrovnik getroffen haben, fanden in Italien mehrere Veranstaltungen und Unternehmungen statt.*

Was die verschiedenen Veranstaltungen betrifft,

1. wurden Tagungen, innerhalb des Dottorato di ricerca , in Turin (22-23.11.2007), und in Pisa (5-8.03.2008). Anlässlich dieser wissenschaftlichen Vortragsreihen sind nicht nur von den Dozenten, sondern auch von den Doktoranden, verschiedene Themen ( Die Beinamen in der Zeit und Der Beiname ) behandelt worden.

1. vom 19. bis 21.04.2007 wurde in Rom von Enzo Caffarelli ein internationales Zusammentreffen über L’onomastica di Roma. Ventotto secoli di nomi organisiert.

1. vom 31.05. bis 1.06.2007 wurde in Pisa das XII internationale Zusammentreffen für literarische Onomastik organisiert, das jährlich von der pisaner Gesellschaft „Onomastica & Letteratura“ gefördert wird (Thema: Der gefundene Name ).

1. vom 8. bis zum 10. Oktober 2008 wird das XIII internationale Zusammentreffen für literarische Onomastik in Sassari (Sardinien) stattfinden (siehe ICOS Website). Bis heute haben sich schon 22 Referenten gemeldet.

Was die Veröffentlichungen betrifft, sind die folgenden Texte erschienen:

1. Die Akten des internationalen Zusammentreffen von O&L ( Il nome trovato , Atti del XXII Convegno Internazionale di Onomastica e letteratura, Torino, 16-18 novembre 2006, in: “il Nome nel testo”, IX (2007) 270 S.).

1. Eine dem Präsidenten von O&L gewidmete Festschrift: Studi di onomastica e letteratura offerti a Bruno Porcelli , a cura di D. De Camilli, Pisa-Roma, Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, Pisa, 2007, 380 S.

1. Die Akten der Tagungen, die, innerhalb des Dottorato di ricerca in Onomastica , in Turin und Bari veranstaltet wurden ( Da Torino a Bari . Atti delle Giornate di Studio di Onomastica, Torino, 28-29 aprile 2006 e Bari, 25-26 maggio 2006, a cura di Elena Papa, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2007, 262 S.

1. Die Akten der Tagungen, die innerhalb des Dottorato di ricerca in Onomastica , in Turin veranstaltet wurden ( Da Torino a Pisa . Atti delle Giornate di Studio di Onomastica, Torino, 16-18 novembre 2006, a cura di Alda Rossebastiano, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2007, 270 S.)

1. Alessio Bologna, Studi di letteratura “popolare” e onomastica tra Quattro e Cinquecento , Pisa, ETS 2007, 120 S.

1. Giovanni Repelli , I cognomi del territorio veronese , Verona, Cierre edizioni, 2007, 852 S. (mit einem Vorwort von M.G. Arcamone ).

1. Franco Finco (a cura di) , Atti del Secondo Convegno di Toponomastica friulana , Udine, Società Filologica Friulana (Quaderni di Toponomastica friulana 6-7) 2007, pp. 2 voll., 382+442 p.

1. Lydia Flöss (a c. di), Genius loci, I nomi di luoghi dalle fonti antiche alle banche-dati attraverso la tradizione popolare , Atti del Convegno, Trento, 12-13 novembre 2004, Trento, Provincia autonoma di Trento, Soprintendenza ai beni librari e archivistici, 2006, 241 S.

1. Lydia Flöss (a c. di), Dizionario toponomastico trentino , 2 voll.: I, I nomi locali di Bizzecca Concei ; II, I nomi locali di Molina di Ledro, Pieve di Ledro, Tiarno si sopra, Tiarno di sotto , Trento, Provincia autonoma di Trento, Soprintendenza ai beni librari e archivistici, 2006.

1. Anna Ferrari , Dizionario dei luoghi letterari immaginari , Torino, UTET 2007, XXI+655 p.

1. Wolfgang Schweickard , Deonomasticon Italicum (di). Dizionario storico dei derivati da nomi geografici e da nomi di persona , vol. ii. Derivati da nomi geografici (F-L) , Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag 2006, VII+802 p.

1. Patrizia Calefato , Che nome sei? Nomi, marchi, tag, nick, etichette e altri segni, Roma, Meltemi 2006, 190 p.

In ca. vier Monaten, und zwar vor ICOS XXIII, werden folgende Bände erscheinen:

1. Die Bände I, II und IV der Akten des XXII ICOS-Kongresses (herausgegeben von M.G. Arcamone, D. Bremer, D. De Camilli und B. Porcelli), die in der von M.G. Arcamone gegründeten Reihe Nominatio veröffentlicht werden.

Vorgeplant ist auch die Veröffentlichung der

1. Akten der Tagungen, die, innerhalb des Dottorato di ricerca , in Turin und in Pisa (s.o.) stattgefunden haben.

1. Akten des internationalen Zusammentreffen von O&L ( Il nome trovato , Atti del XXII Convegno Internazionale di Onomastica e letteratura, Pisa, 31.05.-1.06.2007, in: “il Nome nel testo”, X (2008).

Pisa, den 30. März 2008

Report on recent onomastic activities in Sweden

(Katharina Leibring)

Most onomastic research in Sweden is to be found in Uppsala as both the university chair in Scandinavian onomastics and the Institute for Language and Folklore (SOFI) are situated there, but there has also been activities in Gothenburg, Lund and Umeå during the last 18 months.

The chair in Scandinavian onomastics at the university of Uppsala has recently got a new holder: Staffan Nyström from Stockholm, as Professor Svante Strandberg has retired. For ICOS members Professor Nyström will be familiar as the editor of volume 42 of Onoma on Urban toponymy. At present, about half a dozen doctoral students in Uppsala are doing active work on onomastic subjects. Their research is devoted to: parents’ attitudes to today’s given names (Emilia Aldrin), women’s choice of surnames around 1900 (Sonja Entzenberg), soldiers’ names (Roland Andersson), the development of Saami family names (Märit Frändén), the formation of Scandinavian bynames and hypochorisms (Stefan Jacobsson), settlement names in Bohuslän (Catarina Röjder) and microtoponyms in Uppland (Elin Forsberg).

Two doctoral dissertations in onomastics, both at the Department of Scandinavian languages at the University of Uppsala were published in 2007: by Kristina Neumüller on hydronomic name-complexes and by Carina Johansson on urban names and name-users’ perceptions of these.

Among recent publications the four annual periodicals: Namn och Bygd, Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavia, Ortnamnssällskapets i Uppsala årsskrift and Sydsvenska ortnamnssällskapets årsskrift , all have published new volumes containing articles and reviews that together cover a broad onomastic field. All of these periodicals have summaries in English and occasional articles are published in English or German.

Some new books (apart from the above-mentioned dissertations) are Smeknamn och öknamn på personer nämnda i dagspressen by Reinert Kvillerud, Nordiskt runnamnslexikon by Lena Peterson, Bebyggelsenamnen i Mörbylånga kommun by Per Vikstrand, and volume 3 of Proceedings of the ICOS Conference in Uppsala 2002. Volume 4 is scheduled to appear this autumn.

The largest conference for Swedish and Scandinavian onomasticians in 2007 was the 14th Scandinavian Onomastic Congress in Borgarnes, Iceland in August, which gathered over 50 participants. The annual meeting of Scandinavian language planners, held in Uppsala in September, was devoted to names and name planning. A smaller symposium concerning the place-name element torp was held in Malmö/Lund, and two symposia in Uppsala and Umeå in late 2006 were devoted to names and multiculture. The proceedings from the Uppsala symposium were published last year under the title Namn och mångkultur –flerspråkiga miljöer och kulturella influenser.

Apart from the four long-running large place-name projects Sveriges Ortnamn, Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län, Skånes ortnamn and Ortnamnen i Övre Norrland, and the Lexikon över Sveriges Medeltida Personnamn [Dictionary of Medieval Personal Names in Sweden] there are several newly started onomastic projects, all based in Uppsala.

a) From Nora-Anna to Foppa is a project on nicknames in Swedish sports during the 20th century. One of its aims is to let the nicknames of sports idols reflect the development of Swedish sports as well as society in general (Leif Nilsson).

b) A project on the historical naming of persons is Denotations of individuals or “name phrases” in Sweden ca 1300 - 1750, i.e. name phrases consisting of both names and non-proprial designations, e.g. wife Anna, Anna Jonsdotter (‘Jon’s daughter’), Olaf´s wife or Anna in the gate (Lennart Ryman).

c) Settlement names and the new settlement archaeology aims at understanding the genesis and continual life of settlement names in the Iron Age landscape of central Sweden (Per Vikstrand)

More and more of the material in the large place-name archives is being made available on the Internet. For example, much of the main Uppsala collection on Swedish place-names can be accessed via www.sofi.se. It consists of about 4 millions of name excerpts from oral or written sources that have been collected during the last 100 years.

Bibliographic references

i Neumüller, Kristina: Vattensjön och Vattenån . Samband mellan sjönamn och ånamn i Medelpad. [Vattensjön and Vattenån. Relationships between lake and river names in Medelpad, northern Sweden .] Uppsala: Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2007. 226 p. (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 96.)

ii Johansson, Carina: I gatuplanet . Namnbrukarperspektiv på gatunamn i Stockholm . [ At street level . A name user perspective on the street names of Stockholm .] Uppsala: Univ., 2007. 250 p. (Namn och samhälle 20.)

iii Kvillerud, Reinert: Smeknamn och öknamn på personer nämnda i dagspressen . [ Petnames and nicknames on persons mentioned in Swedish newspapers .] Göteborg : Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning, Göteborgs universitet, 2007. 173 p. (Meijerbergs arkiv för svensk ordforskning 33.)

iv Peterson, Lena: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon . [ Dictionary of proper names in Scandinavian Viking Age runic inscriptions .] 5 th , rev. ed. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 2007. 345 p.

v Vikstrand, Per: Mörbylånga kommun . Bebyggelsenamn . [ Settlement names in Mörbylånga , Öland .] Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 2007. 239 p. (Sverige Ortnamn. Ortnamnen i Kalmar län 7.)

vi Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Vol. 3 . Editors Eva Brylla and Mats Wahlberg in collab. with Rob Rentenaar. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 2007. 446 p.

vii Namn och mångkultur – flerspråkiga miljöer och kulturella influenser . Föredrag vid Ortnamnssällskapets i Uppsala 70-årssympoisum 21–22 oktober 2006 . [ Names and multiculture – multilingual environments and cultural influences .] Ed. by Katharina Leibring, Staffan Nyström and Mats Wahlberg. Uppsala: Ortnamnssällskapet i Uppsala, 2007. 123 p.

Uppsala May 2008

Calls for papers

and other announcements

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NAMES AND IDENTITIES II

Friday November 21, 2008

University of Oslo

Georg Sverdrups hus, Universitetsbiblioteket, Blindern, 08.45–17.00

Organized by the Research Group on Names and Identities

Department of Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies/Name Research

University of Oslo

PROGRAM

08.45 Opening

09.00 Silvio Brendler (Schwarzenbek, Germany): Identity of names as a crucial problem in name studies

09.45 Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo): Names in a multicultural society

10.15 Peter Jordan (Vienna, Austria): Place-names as space related identity

10.45 Coffee break

11.15 Richard Coates (Bristol, Great Britain): Place-name alternants and their cultural significances

11.45 Aud-Kirsti Pedersen (Tromsø): Can the choice of a name form be an act of identity?

12.15 Ingvil Nordland (Oslo): Normering av stedsnavn – et brudd på navnebrukernes identitet? (Standardising place-names: a breach against the name users’ identities?)

12.45 Lunch break

13.45 Inge Særheim (Stavanger): Road/street names and cultural identity

14.15 Solveig Wikstrøm (Oslo): Investigating the relationship between names and identities by use of questionnaire: some methodological considerations

14.45 Maria Giovanna Arcamone (Pisa, Italy): Namen and Identität in den modernen italienischen Krimiromanen (Names and identities in the modern Italian crime novels).

15.15 Coffee break

15.30 Benedicta Windt (Oslo): Literary onomastics in the light of identity

16.00 Astrid Sann Evensen (Tromsø): Place-names, memory, and identity in Tor Jonsson’s poetry

16.30 Botolv Helleland (Oslo): Names and identities – what next?

16.45 Closing

19.00: Reception by the Mayor of Oslo at the Town Hall of Oslo (Oslo rådhus).

On the eve of the conference, Thursday November 20 at 7 p.m. participants and accompanying persons are invited to a social gathering with ”rjomegraut” on the menu.

Most of the papers and the following discussions, questions and comments will be in English. Some of the participants who are not on the speakers’ list will prepare comments to the various papers to start the discussion.

There are no conference fees. Registration by 15 November 2008: Name Research, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, P.O. 1011 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo. Fax (++47) 22 85 43 81. Phone (++47) 22 85 43 78. e-mail: botolv.helleland@iln.uio.no

Speakers and their professional background (in chronological order):

Silvio Brendler ( silviobrendler@hotmail.com ) has a PhD in onomastics and is author/editor of a number of books on name research including the onomastic journal Zunamen/Surnames. Thomas Hylland Eriksen ( t.h.eriksen@culcom.uio.no ) is professor at the Department of Soci

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