ATTENTION !! Due to the spread of COVID-19 and the inevitable coincidence of several conferences, the dates already proposed for the next meetings could be anticipated or postponed. Please consult…

ATTENTION !!! Due to the spread of COVID-19 and the inevitable coincidence of several conferences, the dates already proposed for the next meetings could be anticipated or postponed. Please consult…

50th Anniversary of the Austrian Board on Geographical Names And GeoNames Symposium “Place Names and Migration” organized by Austrian Board on Geographical Names (AKO) UNGEGN Dutch- and German-speaking Division (DGSD)…

Session on Toponymy   Place names as a part of the cultural heritage   “What fossils are to biology, and sediments to geology, toponyms are to cultural history of a…

POSPONED TO 26-28TH MAY 2021 HERITAGE GEOGRAPHIES: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past “Cultural heritage is a group of resources inherited from the past which people identify, independently of…

Session on Toponymy Place names as indicators of human perception of space   From the perspective of geography, place names are not only explaining map symbols and cannot only serve…

Dear friends and colleagues, As already announced earlier, we have planned the 23rd UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting to take place 19-21st March 2020 in Ljublijana, Slovenia. This meeting…

  The International Symposium on Place Names  (Clarens (South Africa) from 18 to 20 September 2019). The conference team   Organizing Committee Symposium Coordinator: Carla Bester (Department Sudafrican Sign Language…