Mercoledì 22, giovedì 23, venerdì 24 settembre – Castel dell’Ovo – Convegno “Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names”
1871-2021 – 150° anniversario del CAI Napoli
Mercoledì 22 – giovedì 23 – venerdì 24 settembre 2021
Castel dell’Ovo – Sala Francesco Compagna
UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
3rd International Scientific Symposium
Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names
Programma
22nd September 2021
14:00 Welcome drink and registration of participants.
14:30 Special session reserved for Italian municipal technicians responsible for local toponymy.
Andrea Cantile, IGMI, University of Firenze (Italia) Collection and treatment of geographical names: Italian rules and best practices (in italian
15:45 Comfort break
16:00 Opening of 3rd International Scientific Symposium of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names – Romano-Hellenic Division (UNGEGN-RHD). Session chaired by Ferdinando Rodriquez, Director of the Campania Region’s Geographic Information System (Italia)
16:30 Introduction to the 3rd International Scientific Symposium of the UNGEGN-RHD
17:10 Visit to the cartographic exhibition “Naples, land and sea. From ancient to contemporary toponymy” The exhibition will close on September 24th, 2021.
18:00 Closing
23rd September 2021
10:00 Session chaired by Domenico Proietti, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italia)
The relevance of place names as an intangible heritage
State of the art in the IGMI and Veneto Region joint toponymic database project
Mapping place names in time and space: an approach for toponyms collection and analysis using historical cartography and GIS. A case study in Trentino (XIX-XXI century)
‘A passi andanti’, along the River Po: cartographic and toponymic heritage (XVI-XX century)
Island place names and historical cartography. Italian small islands in the Modern Age
Anti-mafia toponyms and odonyms in Italy: commemorative policies, contradictions and spatial effects
A matter of springs: Storga’s eternal genius loci, from the Venetian dominion to nowadays
Keltoi, Keltai and Galatians: a complex Celtic World in the ancient Greek sources
Gela sive Philosophianis: two place names for a mansio, or a mansio for two places?
12:40 Discussion
13:00 Light lunch
15:00 Session chaired by Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Co-Chair of IGU-ICA Joint Commission on Toponymy (Austria)
Human rights and sustainable naming
Letters from Postmasters 1905-06: providing some insight into naming Canada’s communities
Microtoponyms as a part of the cultural heritage and a challenge for standardization
Indigenous toponymy in official mapping: from standardization toward reconciliation in Québec
The evolution of geographical names within the long history of Cyprus
City-related affixes in naming patterns of Asian countries
Toponymy, a powerful tool for orientation and location, but a formidable pharmakon
The structure of toponyms in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan
Angry river goddesses speak: river names, memory and national identity in
Tess Onwueme’s “Then she said it!”
17:40 Discussion
18:00 Closing
24th September 2021
10:00 Session chaired by Cosimo Palagiano, Sapienza University of Roma, Accademia dei Lincei (Italia)
Landscape and place names
Toponymy and “longue durée”: Terra di Lavoro from late antiquity to the present day
Continuity and novelty in the toponyms of the Terra di Lavoro territories from 1860 to today
A short history of Napoli through the affirmation of its toponym in historical cartography
Leonardo’s toponymy for the reconstruction of the historical landscape of Tuscany in the 16th century
Invented toponymy for invented lands. Placenames and reclamation in the Emilia-Romagna Sector of the Po River Delta (Northern Italy), 1920s-1960s
Mapping the Walser toponymy in the western Italian Alps. State of the art and project proposals
Rewriting the territory. The use of toponymy in the dynamics of dominion, the Italian experience.
Mapping micro-toponymy in Alpine linguistic minorities languages. Historical GIS as a meeting point
12:40 Discussion
13:00 Light lunch
14:30 Souvenir photo of the participants and closing