The American Name Society will be holding its annual conference, online,  on February 20, 2027.  Interested names researchers are warmly invited to submit an abstract for possible presentation.

The American Name Society will be holding a special session called "Academics on Fire: Controversies over
(Re)Naming Educational Institutions" at the 2027 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (San Francisco, CA; 6-9 January 2027) 

The current call for book chapter proposals is for an upcoming publication on Forensic Onomastics for  the Bloomsbury book series, “Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities”.   

An E-interview with the authors of the Best Article of the Year, 2025, “Mapping Place Names” NAMES A Journal of Onomastics 74, no. 2: 1-19.9