ICOS News http://www.icosweb.net/ en Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:32:45 +0300 TYPOlight webCMS To ICOS student members travelling from abroad who are attending the 24th ICOS Congress in Barcelona The ICOS Board has decided to subsidize parts of your travel costs for attending the Congress. Please contact the Treasurer, Dr. Katharina Leibring, during the Congress (or, after the Congress by email to treasurer@icosweb.net, giving proof of your Congress attendance) to submit your details about how this grant (30 Euros) can be paid out to you. The number of grants is limited, and they will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. No grants will be paid out before Sep. 9th (see below).

If you wish to receive the grant in cash during the Congress, there will be an opportunity to do so during Friday Sep. 9th, from 11 to 11.30, and from 16 to 16.30, at the Congress venue. The exact place where the Treasurer will have her office will be posted on the Congress information board in Barcelona. Make sure that you bring proof of your student status, including the name of the university you attend.

 

Uppsala Aug. 23rd 2011,

Dr. Katharina Leibring, Treasurer of ICOS

P.S. All students travelling from abroad to the Congress, and who join ICOS before Tuesday Sep. 6th at 16.00 CET, are entitled to apply for this grant.

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/to-icos-student-members-travelling-from-abroad-who-are-attending-the-24th-icos-congress-in-barcelona.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:10:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/to-icos-student-members-travelling-from-abroad-who-are-attending-the-24th-icos-congress-in-barcelona.html The 24th ICOS Congress in Barcelona – a good place to become an ICOS member Do you wish to join ICOS as a new member, or have you forgotten to renew your subscription? The annual fee is 20 euros (10 euros if you are a student) which includes ICOS’ annual yearbook ONOMA.

 

If you are participating in the 24th ICOS Congress in Barcelona, you will have the chance to join or to renew your subscription. For those who wish to participate in the ICOS General Assembly on Thursday Sep. 8th at 18.30, the subscription for 2011 must be paid not later than Sep. 6th.

 

The ICOS Treasurer, Dr. Katharina Leibring, will be available at the Congress venue on Monday Sep. 5th from 9.00-9.30, 11.30-12.00, and on Tuesday Sep. 6th from 8.30-9.00, 14.30-17.00, accepting cash payment only. The exact place of the Treasurer’s temporary office will be posted on the Congress information board.

 

Katharina Leibring, ICOS Treasurer

Email addresses: katharina.leibring@sofi.se or treasurer@icosweb.net

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/the-24th-icos-congress-in-barcelona-a-good-place-to-become-an-icos-member.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:03:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/the-24th-icos-congress-in-barcelona-a-good-place-to-become-an-icos-member.html Nominations for the ICOS Board of Directors Nominees for the ICOS Board of Directors (2011–14)

President

Carole Hough, Scotland

I am Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where I moved in 1995 from the University of Nottingham in England. I have been involved in ICOS for most of my career. I was a member of the Scottish Advisory Committee for the organisation of the 1996 conference in Aberdeen, and I was elected to the Board in Directors in 2008. I am keen to promote name studies on both a national and international level. I am currently Convener of the Scottish Place-Name Society and a Council Member of the English Place-Name Society. I have also just completed a term of office as a Committee Member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland.

I publish extensively on English and Scottish place-names and other onomastic topics, and I was editor of the journal Nomina from 1998-2007. I am currently a member of the Editorial Board for Onoma, and I also compile annual bibliographies for the journals Anglo-Saxon England, Journal of the English Place-Name Society and Nomina.

Vice-Presidents

Richard Coates, England

I am an English toponymist and name-theoretician. My current roles are as director of the Survey of English Place-Names and as principal investigator of the project Family Names of the United Kingdom, of which Patrick Hanks is lead researcher. My allocated geographical area is Hampshire, though I have also published widely on other counties and areas, and have a special interest in the toponymic relations between Celtic and English. I have been a member of ICOS since 1999, and served as secretary from 2002-2008. I am chair of the editorial board of Onoma. Since confession is therapeutic and cathartic: I was also editorially responsible for the belated volume 41.


Milan Harvalík, Czech Republic

Milan Harvalík (PhDr., Ph.D., Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague) is a senior research scientist in the Institute for the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and head of the Department of Onomastics of the Institute. His main field of study is Czech (especially Bohemian) toponymy and relations between onomastics and dialectology. He has also special interests in the theory of proper names, methodology of proper names research, onomastic terminology, onomastic grammar, exonyms and standardisation of geographical names, and also in the history of Czech onomastics. He published several books and articles on onomastics. He teaches onomastics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University, Prague (BA, MA and Ph.D. students). He is editor-in-chief of the Czech onomastic journal Acta onomastica, member of editorial boards of the journals Onoma, Zunamen, Nomina Africana, member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Onomastic Commission, member of the ICOS Terminology Group (2004–2009 its chair) and member of the ICOS Bibliography Group. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the ICOS Board of Directors (2005–2005 non executive member, 2005–2008 Vice-President).

Secretary

Guy Puzey, Scotland

I am an early career researcher, having recently completed a PhD on Italian and Norwegian language policy (University of Edinburgh, 2011). In this and in previous research, I have cultivated a particular interest in the political and social implications of naming. This is demonstrated by my recent publications on the official use of Gaelic place-names in Scotland and Canada, Sámi place-names in Norway and Lombard place-names in Italy. In the summer of 2010, I was the principal organiser of the Trends in Toponymy 4 conference held at the University of Edinburgh, and I have attended many other onomastics gatherings, including ICOS 23 in Toronto in 2008. I am currently working with Laura Kostanski to edit a major volume on names and naming, as well as joining with others to establish the TopoTrends network. I am also acting as guest editor for a special section in Onoma 46 on ‘Onomastics and Linguistic Landscapes’.

 

With my background in languages and area studies, I am a natural believer in the value of fostering international academic co-operation. As such I was delighted to be nominated for the position of secretary to the ICOS Board of Directors for 2011-2014. I believe that my experience of service on other academic committees (including with the Association for the Study of Modern Italy and the Scottish Place-Name Society) would stand me in good stead, providing me with the skills to perform my duties as secretary proficiently. I would look forward to working with ICOS to promote name studies internationally and throughout all relevant disciplines.


Treasurer

Staffan Nyström, Sweden

I have been nominated to the position as treasurer in the ICOS Board 2011–2014 and I have gladly accepted the nomination. I find international cooperation, exchange of knowledge and experiences very important, and I do enjoy working with scholars from different countries and backgrounds. The official address and the registered seat of ICOS is Uppsala. The present treasurer works in the same building in Uppsala as me. Thus the way is paved for a smooth transition on the post. No doubt this continuity is beneficial and in the best interest of ICOS.

Some short facts about myself:

Born 1952. PhD in Scandinavian Languages 1988, assistant professor (Sw. docent) 1990, senior lecturer 1993–2001, all at Stockholm University. Employed as place name expert by The National Heritage Board of Sweden 2001–2008. Holder of a full professorship in Scandinavian onomastics (chair) at Uppsala university since 2008.

Chair of the Name Drafting Comittee of Stockholm (member since 1996, Secretary 2000–2010); member of The Place-Name Advisory Board of Sweden since 1989; vice chair of The Nordic cooperative committee for onomastic research (NORNA) 1998–2007; board member of The Place Name Society of Uppsala and co-editor of its annual journal since 2005; board member and secretary of The Runica et Mediævalia Society (www.medievalia.nu) and co-editor of the book series Runica et Mediævalia since 1991 (so far 51 published volumes), delegate of UNGEGN (United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names) since 2003 and convenor of its Working Group on Toponymic Terminology since 2007.

I am a paid-up member of ICOS since the late 1980s and have attended every ICOS Congress since Trier 1993. I was the guest editor of Onoma 42 on Urban Toponymy and I already take part in the work of the terminology group.

Assistant secretary / web officer

Antti Leino, Finland

I have been nominated for a second term as the assistant secretary and web officer. As my main goal for the next three years I see augmenting the current web site with a wider use of social media, both to further connections between onomasticians and to distribute information on current onomastic activities.

My academic history has been one of constant identity crisis right from the start when I was accepted to study both computer science and Finnish at the University of Helsinki. I still haven't been able to choose between the two, so these days I cling to my alma mater as an adjunct professor of Finnish language and applied computer science. My research interests revolve mainly around data mining, onomastics and cognitive linguistics, although these days the bulk of my time goes for other activities than research. I am currently working as the data security manager of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, although I also deal with electronic corpora and corpus-based research, and am half-way through my second term on the National Heraldry Council of Finland.

Non-executive members

Terhi Ainiala, Finland

Terhi Ainiala (1967) is Senior Researcher and Head of Research Department at the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. She wrote her doctoral thesis on change in place names 1997. Among her main research interests are socio-onomastics, urban place names and theoretical and methodological questions in onomastics. She is one of the three authors in the Finnish handbook "The Foundations of Onomastics" (2008). Since 2008, she is a member of the Board of directors in ICOS.

Lidia Becker, Germany

I have been a member of ICOS since 2004. Since then I successfully defended my PhD thesis dedicated to medieval anthroponyms on the Iberian Peninsula, attended various onomastic conferences as well as the ICOS congresses in Pisa and Toronto and developed an interest for the names of Sephardic Jews and for toponyms and anthroponyms as a marker of regional and national identity.

In the coming fall semester 2011 I will start working as an Assistant Professor (Junior Professor in German terminology) of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Hannover and I will be happy to continue my onomastic research and teach different aspects of onomastics.

I do think that I can be considered a full blooded and a passionate onomastician! It seems to me that it is about the right time to become a really ‚active‘ member of ICOS.

My goals as a Non-executive Member would be the following:
  1. Make ICOS more attractive for underrepresented disciplines (e.g. history) in order to encourage interdisciplinary research within the Council. For this purpose the next ICOS congress could offer a special section for interdisciplinary projects.
  2. Initiate and foster contacts with our colleagues in Latin American countries.
  3. Look for solutions to increase the efficiency of the Bibliographical Database Group as a certain stagnation was observed in the ICOS Newsletter 20. At least an essential bibliography (handbooks and textbooks) for toponyms and anthroponyms of different etymologies should be made available on the ICOS website for general public.
I hope that my experience as a ‚practising‘ onomastician, my current position as a young professor and my numerous international contacts in the fields of Romance, Latin, Indoeuropean, German, Slavic, English Philology and History will be useful to the Council!

Ian Clark, Australia

I have been researching aspects of toponyms since 1982, and have published various dictionaries of Victorian Aboriginal Placenames and numerous papers in topics such as micro-toponymy, rock art site names, dual naming, and the restoration of indigenous names.  In 1989-1990 I was responsible for a major campaign to reinstate Indigenous place names in and around a National Park in Victoria.  I served as chair of the Victorian committee of the Australian National Place Names Survey from 2002 until 2008, and am currently a member of the Geographic Place Names Advisory Panel that provides policy advice to the Victorian Surveyor General.  I have supervised doctoral research into toponymy.  My own doctoral studies were in Aboriginal historical geography.  I am currently an Associate Professor in Tourism, in the Business School, University of Ballarat.
 
I first joined ICOS in 2005 when I attended the congress in Pisa, and have attended every congress since, as well as being instrumental in the decision by a group of toponymists with an interest in Indigenous toponymy and emerging trends to hold annual 'trends in toponymy' conference between the ICOS congresses.  In 2007 along with Dr Laura Kostanski, I hosted a successful Trends in Toponymy conference at the University of Ballarat.
 
The diversity and richness of the toponymic research that we are pursuing around the world, that is showcased at every ICOS, never ceases to amaze and impress me, and it would be an honour if I was elected to the Board as a non-executive member.  As a researcher who is passionate about topophilia and place name attachment and identity, I would strive to ensure that ICOS continues to advance, represent and co-ordinate name-research on an international level and in an interdisciplinary context. If elected I would be the first Australian to serve on the Board, thus adding to its internationalisation and interdisciplinary composition.  I appreciate your support.
 
Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, Poland

I am professor  in  the  Institut  of  Polish  Language  Polish  Academy  of Sciences in Kraków. I am the vice-direktor of this Institut and the head  of onomastic department. My main fields of research are toponymy,  anthroponymy and language contacts in the light of proper  names.  I  am  member  of  the Commitee of Polish Onomastics and a member  of  the  Board  of  Commitee  of Slavonic onomastics by International Commitee of Slavists. I  am  member  of ICOS and I have participated  in  almost  all  ICOS  Congresses  since  13th Congress in Kraków in 1978. Since the Congress in Toronto I am a  member  of Board. The Board has appointed me as the head of the Bibliography  Group.  I am ready to serve the next term and to continue work on our Bibliography.

Artur Gałkowski, Poland

Laura Kostanski, Australia

I am standing for election to the ICOS board for many reasons.  Firstly, I believe I'm in a unique position to represent not only academic researchers but also naming practitioners. My substantive role is as a project manager for the Office of Geographic Names in Victoria, Australia, I am also Secretary of the Committee for Geographic Names Australasia and in my spare time I am an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat. I have also commenced collaborating with other scholars to develop the TopoTrends group- which is aiming to form a collective research network for toponymic theory researchers.

My main area of onomastic interest is toponymy, in which I am particularly interested in theory, branding, data collection, policy development and Indigenous or minority language representation.  I completed my PhD in 2009, and while I do not have decades of experience behind me, as an early career researcher I propose that I can bring creative energy to the ICOS Board and hopefully represent the interests of onomastic scholars starting in this area of research.  I am fluent in French (a bit rusty though) and being from Australia I would be able to increase the scope of the ICOS Board by representing through my networks the interests of south-eastern hemisphere onomasticians.

Carol Leonard, Canada

I am currently an Associate Professor in Education, in the Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta where my colleagues and my students see me as a person who is impassioned by the study of toponyms. In 2006, I defended my PhD thesis dedicated to the Francophone minority toponymy in Saskatchewan (Western Canada). I am presently conducting a research program into the French toponymic stratum of Manitoba and Alberta; program that is supported through funding from the government of Canada. I am serving as vice-president of the Canadian Society for study of names and also as board member of Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta.
 
As the world embarks into the 21st century and moves toward globalization, challenges are looming on the horizon and we are getting through an exciting period. As we see day after day, year after year, there is an increasing interest for the conservation, presentation of the world intangible cultural heritage.  Linguistic landscapes are among the social dimensions in which toponymy may in the future be called upon to play a strategic role. There is certainly a bright future for the onomastic sciences. I am thinking in particular of the studies focusing on synchronic research as they are paving the way to experimental research, modelling and designing in toponymy. There are new possible ways forward. Being on the lookout for these trends and new possibilities represents challenges. It is my hope to contribute significantly to this mission by serving on the ICOS board.

Kaisa Rautio Helander, Norway
]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/nominations-for-the-icos-board-of-directors.html Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:35:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/nominations-for-the-icos-board-of-directors.html XVIe Colloque d'Onomastique http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/xvie-colloque-donomastique.html Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:18:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/xvie-colloque-donomastique.html Newsletter 20 is out http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/newsletter.html Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:11:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/newsletter.html Call for Papers: Challenges in synchronic toponymy http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/cist-cfp.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:09:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/cist-cfp.html Call for Papers: Trends in Toponymy 5
This call for papers invites abstracts addressing issues concerning place names within the framework of toponomastics, linguistics and connected approaches. The abstract should state the main point of the paper and give an outline of its argument. It should make explicit on which empirical data and/or theoretical concepts it is based and describe the way in which the paper contributes to the development of the field.

Papers should address issues of particular importance in place name research. For instance, we would be interested in papers exploring such topics as:
  • epistemology of toponomastics
  • language and name contact in multilingual societies and at language boundaries
  • name theory with an emphasis on toponyms
  • typologies of toponymic systems
  • collection and documentation of place names
  • social attitudes towards place names and naming practices in past and present
  • toponyms in discourse and conversation
  • new approaches to place name research
  • visualisation of toponymic data via Geographic Information Systems.
Of course this is just a sample of topics; we hope to include a wide variety of papers on diachronic and synchronic research on place names.

Abstracts for three kinds of submissions can be proposed: panels, individual papers, and posters. All abstracts have to be anonymous. Only one abstract as single/first author and a second as co-author can be submitted by one person.

Panels (deadline: September 30, 2011):
Proposals for panels with 3–6 speakers are welcome. Panel proposals should be submitted in two steps:
  1. a general description of the panel (400 words) with the name(s) of the panel conveners and the names of the expected speakers should be submitted via e-mail (contact@topotrends2012.org) by September 30, 2011.
  2. if the panel is accepted, abstracts of the panel’s papers (max. 400 words) should be submitted individually by the speakers through the Conference website by November 30, 2011.

Papers (deadline: November 30, 2011):
Spoken presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion.
Individual presentations should be submitted with an abstract of max. 400 words. The submission will be done through the Conference website.

Posters (deadline: November 30, 2011):
A specific slot will be provided within the programme for poster sessions.
Poster proposals should be submitted with an abstract of max. 400 words. The submission will be done through the Conference website.
]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/tit5-cfp.html Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:38:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/tit5-cfp.html Call for papers: Names in the Economy IV Names in the Economy IV

International symposium, Turku 14–16 June 2012

Names are a pervasive part of human culture. We are continuously reminded of their existence by our surrounding environment. Names always come about and are used in interaction between people and a language community. We give names to referents worth naming – to objects that are meaningful or valuable for us. Also organizations are increasingly aware of the importance of naming; brands and their names are powerful tools in today’s commercial environment. The approval of names for common use always requires a community with a fairly similar vision of the surrounding world. Culture produces names and names produce culture.


Call for papers

 

Turku School of Economy at the University of Turku kindly invites the submission of paper proposals for the fourth symposium of Names in the Economy in Turku, Finland 12-14 June 2012. We welcome proposals for both oral and poster presentations.

Contributions may cover the fields of product names, company names, brand names and all other proper names that are of economic interest. The focus of the conference will be on the theme Names and cultures in a commercial environment. Our purpose is to invoke discussion about commercial names from an interdiciplinary pespective, and therefore we warmly welcome paper proposals by scholars from a broad range of disciplines, for instance economics and marketing, onomastics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics and semiotics, cultural sciences, law and cultural geography.

 The official conference language is English.

Abstract submission

If you want to present a paper at the symposium, please send an abstract by 30 September 2011 to NITE4@tse.fi. Abstracts should briefly (max 400 words) show the purpose, perspective and findings of the proposed paper.

Paper proposals will be reviewed by the members of the International scientific committee. The acceptance of proposals and the invitation to the conference will be sent in December 2011.

Registration and payment

The closing date for registration and payment is 15 April 2012. The conference fee for participants is 120 € (students 90 €). The registration fee includes the whole program, the conference material as well as the lunches and coffee, the welcoming reception on Thursday and the conference dinner on Friday. Note that after the closing date the payment will be 170 € (students 120 €).

Publication

A selection of papers presented in the symposium will be published in the Proceedings of the symposium short after the conference. Deadline for manuscripts of full papers is 15 July 2012. The contributions are subject to acceptance by two referees. More details will be informed later.

 

More information about the conference: http://www.tse.fi/EN/units/otherunits/names-in-the-economy/Pages/NITE4.aspx

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/nite4-cfp.html Tue, 03 May 2011 11:05:00 +0300 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/nite4-cfp.html Subscription time for 2011 The ICOS Treasurer, Katharina Leibring, wants to inform you that it is now subscription time for ICOS members. The membership fee for 2011 is 20 euros. For anyone showing evidence of current doctoral student status the membership fee is 10 euros.

The ICOS Board wants to draw your attention to the fact that nominators and nominees for the next Board of Directors (2011–2014) must be paid-up members of ICOS by March 31, 2011. All candidates must be nominated by two ICOS members.

Only paid-up members of ICOS will be allowed to vote at the General Assembly at the ICOS Congress in Barcelona. We recommend that you pay well in advance. The deadline for voting will be payment made before Congress Tuesday, September 6, 1600 CET. Anyone paying after that will not be entitled to vote. During Congress only cash payment will be possible.

Please contact the Treasurer (katharina.leibring@sofi.se or treasurer@icosweb.net) if you want to join ICOS as a new member or if you haven’t received any invoice through e-mail.

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/subscription-time-for-2011.html Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:25:00 +0200 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/subscription-time-for-2011.html XXIV ICOS Congress http://barcelona.onomastica.cat/en/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:41:00 +0300 http://barcelona.onomastica.cat/en/ Web site migration finished The ICOS web site update is now finally over. Over the winter the site was transferred from a server offered by the University of Sussex to a web hosting service in Finland, and at the same time the site layout and underlying support structures were changed extensively. The process did not go completely smoothly, but as of today the transition is over. Welcome to the new site, and please share any ideas you have about the further development of the site.

 

Antti Leino

Assistant secretary and web officer

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/web-site-migration-finished.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:22:00 +0200 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/web-site-migration-finished.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Names Congress of the NSA The Names Society of Southern Africa (NSA), jointly with the Centre for African Names Research (CANR) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will be hosting the 15th Names Congress of the NSA, which will also include the follow-up to the two Trends in Toponymy conferences held recently in Ballarat, Australia and Karasjohka, Norway. The conference will be held over five days from Monday 6th to Friday 10th July 2009, in Durban on the Howard College Campus, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

 

 

Papers are invited on any aspect of Onomastics – The study of proper names.

 

 

Abstract Guidelines:

  • Approximately 200 words

  • MS Word format

  • Font: 12pt Times New Roman

  • Applications should indicate whether they wish their paper to be included in the main part of the congress, or in the “Trends in Toponymy” section.

 

 

Submit to: The Conference Secretariat

nsa2009@ukzn.ac.za

 

Deadline: 31stMarch 2009

 

 

Another circular will be sent out later this year with conference fees, details of accommodation, etc.

 

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/final-call-for-papers-15th-names-congress-of-the-nsa.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:02:00 +0200 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/final-call-for-papers-15th-names-congress-of-the-nsa.html Philip Dance RIP Colleagues:

 

It is with deep regret that I forward the news of the untimely death of Philip Dance of the University of Portsmouth, UK on October 21, 2008. Dance was 59 and had a blood clot on his bowel. After surgery, he died of septic shock.

 

Dance was a bibliographer of onomastics. During the past week, I had announced some of his bibliographic work available on the web. We had also collaborated on a major bibliography also on the web.

 

He will be missed.

 

Edwin D. Lawson

]]> http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/philip-dance-rip.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0200 http://www.icosweb.net/index.php/Current_news/items/philip-dance-rip.html