February 2017

The Rome Symposion Proceedings have been published

Symposion on Place-name Changes organized by Joint IGU/ICA Commission on Toponymy.
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome [Roma], Italy, November 17-18, 2014.

Peter Jordan/Paul Woodman (eds.) (2016), Place-Name Changes. Proceedings of the Symposion in

Rome, 17-18 November 2014. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač.

Using this link you can find the proceedings of our symposion in Rome:  http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-8423-5.htm.


IGU ICA Commission of Toponymy Forthcoming meetings

Pan-American symposium on place names, Rio de Janeiro, May 3-5 2017 (http://eventos.ibge.gov.br/sipat2017)

International Cartographic Conference, Washington D.C. 2-7 July 2017 (http://icc2017.org).

Location:  Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, District Of Columbia 20008 USA.

In conjunction with the 28th International Cartographic Conference, held in Washington DC on 2–7 July 2017, the Library of Congress’ Geography & Map Division and the three ICA Commissions on the History of CartographyToponymy, and Atlases would like to invite you to attend their joint pre-conference Workshop Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History – Names – Atlases. The workshop will be held at the Library of Congress (Madison Building) in Washington DC (USA), from Wednesday, 28 June to Friday, 30 June 2017 (history.icaci.org/Washington-dc-2017)

2017 International Symposium on Place Names: Critical toponymy, place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes .
Windhoek, Namibia, 18-20 September 2017 (www.ufs.ac.za).

Contacts

Cosimo Palagiano (IGU Chair)

cosimo.palagiano@uniroma1.it

Paulo Menezes (ICA Chair)

pmenezes@acd.ufrj.br

Peter Jordan (common Vice-Chair)

peter.jordan@oeaw.ac.at