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UNGEGN Global Events Calendar

June 2023 19-23
- International Training on Toponymy "Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage"
  Bali, Indonesia
May 2023 1 - 5
- 2023 session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
  UNHQ, New York
December 2022 5 - 7
- The Ninth Arab Conference of Arab Experts on Geographical Names, entitled: Geospatial integration between name and Location "importance and impact"
  Contact: ADEGN
September 2022 30
- UNGEGN Webinar Series
  Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
Aug. - Sept. 2022 31 Aug - 3 Sep
- UNGEGN Exonym and Terminology Working Groups Meeting
  Contact: Kohei Watanabe
May 2022 18
- ECSEED meeting
  Contact: Klara Steinerova
May 2022 10
- UNGEGN Webinar "Developing Digital Gazetteers Using Free and Open-Source Software
  Contact: Cecille Blake
November 2021 24
- Asia South-East Division
  Contact: Tika Dwi Saputri
November 2021 17 - 19
- II International Pan American Symposium on Toponymy (II SIPAT)
  Contact: Paulo Menezes
October 2021 27-28
- Centenary Conference of the Norwegian Place-Name Archive (text in Norwegian)
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
September 2021 23 - 24
- UNGEGN Baltic division meeting
  Contact: Timo Torm and Peeter Päll)
September 2021 22 - 24
- 3rd International Scientific Symposium on "Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names"
  Napoli [Naples], Italia [Italy]
  Coordinator: Andrea Cantile
August 2021 31
- UN-GGIM: Amerias CARIGEO/UNGEGN webinar, "Geographical Names Standardization Supporting National Development"
  Coordinator: Cecille Blake
August 2021 30
- UNGEGN ASE Division Webinar "Recognizing Generic Terms in Geographical Names from Local Languages"
  Coordinator: UNGEGN ASE Division
May 2021 3 - 7
- 2nd Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
  UNHQ, New York

November 2019 6 - 8
- GeoNames Symposion "Place names and migration"
  Vienna, Austria
  Coordinator: Gerhard Rampl
September 2019 18 - 20
- 5th International Symposium on Place Names "Recognition, regulation, revitalisation: place names and indigenous languages"
  larens, South Africa
  Coordinator: Chrismi Linda Loth
July 2019 15 - 20
- 29th International Cartographic Conference (ICC), session of the Toponymy Commission
  Tokyo, Japan
July 2019 11 - 12
- Pre-conference symposion of ICC Tokyo "National names boards"
  Tokyo, Japan
April - May 2019 29 Apr - 3 May
- 1st Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
  UNHQ, New York
March 2019 24 - 28
- Workshop on Geographical Names "Application of the unified Arab system of Romanization"
  Amman, Jordan
  Coordinator: Mr. Awni Khasawneh
February 2019 13
- East Central and South - East European Division
  Bratislava, Slovakia
  Coordinator: Ms. Porubčanová Darina
October 2018 10 - 13
- UNGEGN Scientific Symposium and Joint Divisions and Working Group Meetings
  Brussels, Belgium
  Coordinator: Ingvil Nordland, Peder Gammeltoft, Tjeerd Tichelaar, Jean-Yves Pirlot & Jasper Hogerwerf
March 2018 25 - 29
- Geographical Names course
  Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre (RJGC) - Amman, Jordan
  Coordinator: Dr. Eng. Awni Moh'd Kasawneh
March 2018 20
- Meeting of the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
  Paris (France, IGN Saint-Mandé)
  Coordinator: (in English) Catherine Cheetham
  Coordinator: (in French) Élisabeth Calvarin
March 2018 19
- Meeting of the UNGEGN Working Group on Country Names
  Paris (France, IGN Saint-Mandé)
  Coordinator: (in English) Catherine Cheetham
  Coordinator: (in French) Élisabeth Calvarin
March 2018 19 - 24
- Regional Training Program in Toponymy, including Marine Toponymy
  Manila, Philippines
  Coordinator: (in English) Mary Jane Montemor
October 2017 27
- World Geographic Names Day
  Italian Geographic Military Institute in Firenze, Florence, Italy
  Contact: Andrea Cantile
September 2017 18 - 20
- 2017 International Symposium on Place Names: Critical toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes
  Windhoek, Namibia
  Contact: Peter Raper
September 2017 5 - 7
- 4th International Conference on Onomastics Name and Naming (ICONN 4)
  Baia Mare, Romania
  Organized by: Centre of Onomastics, County Library
Aug - Sept 2017 27 Aug - 1 Sept
- 26th ICOS Congress
  Debrecen, Hungary
  Organized by: ICOS and University of Debrecen
August 2017 8 - 17
- 11th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
  New York, NY
July 2017 2 - 7
- 28th International Cartographic Conference (ICC)
  Washington D.C., USA
  Organized by: International Cartographic Association (ICA)
June 2017 28 - 30
- Joint ICC Pre-Conference Workshop: Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History - Names - Atlases
  Washington D.C., USA
  Organized by: ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in coâ€operation with the ICA Commission on Atlases and the Joint ICA/IGU Commission Toponymy
May 2017 15 - 19
- Toponymy training course for the UNGEGN Portuguese-speaking Division and Latin America Division
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Organized by: Portuguese-speaking Division and Latin America Division
May 2017 3 - 5
- International Pan-American Symposium on Toponymy, in cooperation with PAIGH
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Organized by: Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy, PAIGH, IBGE
April 2017 19 - 22
- Joint Meeting, UNGEGN WG on Evaluation and Implementation and WG on Publicity and Funding
  Innsbruck, Austria
  Organized by: University of Innsbruck
April 2017 6 - 8
- 19th Meeting, UNGEGN WG on Exonyms and WG on Romanization Systems
  Prague, Czechia
  Organized by: Czech Geodetical Office
March 2017 24
- Norden Division Meeting
  Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway
  Organized by: Ingvil Nordland, Norwegian Language Council
  Contact: Ingvil Nordland

April 2016 29
- Romano-Hellenic Division meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Andrea Cantile
- WG on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Annette Torensjö
- WG on Romanization Systems meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Peeter Päll
April 2016 28
- French-speaking Division meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Élisabeth Calvarin
- WG on Training Courses on Toponymy meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Ferjan Ormeling
- Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Peter Jordan
- Norden Division meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Annette Torensjö
April 2016 27
- Workshop on Implementing Resolutions: Experiences of Commemorative Naming
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Sungjae Choo
- WG on Country Names meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Élisabeth Calvarin
- WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazeetteers meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
April 2016 26
- WG on Pronunciation meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Tjeerd Tichelaar
- WG on Exonymys meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Peter Jordan
- Arabic Division meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Awni Khasawneh
April 2016 25
- Dutch-and German-speaking Division meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
- Task Team for Africa meeting
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Brahim Atoui
- Asia South East Division
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Contact: Peter Tiangco
November 2015 26
- 21st Session of teh East Central and South-East Europe Division (ECSEED)
  Contact: Marija Brnot
October 2015 8 - 10
- International Workshop on Toponymy "Place names to the public" organized by National Geographic Information Institute
  Jeju, Republic of Korea
  Contact: Sungjae Choo
September 2015 17 - 18
- Joint ICA/IGU Working Group/Commission on Toponymy: 2015 International Symposium on Place Names "Place names, diversity and heritage"
  Clarens, Free State Province, South Africa
  Contact: Chrismi Loth
September 2015 12
- Meeting of the UNGEGN Norden Division at the Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen
  Denmark
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
September 2015 10 - 12
- Joint Meeting of UNGEGN Working Groups (Evaluation and Implementation and Publicity and Funding), at the Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen
  Denmark
  Contact: Sungjae Choo or Peder Gammeltoft
September 2015 9 - 10
- Meeting of UNGEGN Working Group on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage, at the Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen
  Denmark
  Contact: Annette Torrensjö or Leif Nilsson
Aug - Sept 2015 30 Aug - 2 Sept
- Joint ICA/IGU Working Group/Commission on Toponymy: Session in the framework of 5th EuGeo Budapest (Hungary)
  Hungary
  Contact: Peter Jordan
May 2015 14 - 16
- 17th Meeting, Working Group on Exonyms
  Zagreb (Croatia)
  Contact: Peter Jordan
March 2015 26 - 27
- International scientific symposium on "Place names as intangible cultural heritage"
  Florence, Italy
  Contact: Andrea Cantile
March 2015 6
(13:30 - 17:30)
- Meeting of the Dutch- and German speaking Division (DGSD) of UNGEGN
  Frankfurt Main, Germany
  Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
November 2014 17 - 18
- Symposium on Place-names changes
  Rome, Italy
  Contact: Peter Jordan and Cosimo Palagiano
November 2014 5 - 7
- International symposium on toponymy â€œGeographical Names as Cultural Heritage
  Seoul, Republic of Korea
  Contact: Sungjae Choo
August 2014 25 - 29
- 25th International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) Congress
  Glasgow, UK
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
August 2014 18 - 22
- IGU Regional Geographic Conference
  Cracow [Kraków], Poland
  Contact: Peter Jordan
June 2014 5 - 7
- Working Group on Exonyms meeting devoted exclusively to the endonym/exonym divide
  Carinthia, Austria
  Contact: Peter Jordan
Mar - Apr 2014 31 March - 1 April
- Asia South-East Division Meeting
  Lombok, Indonesia
  Contact: P Dr. Peter N. Tiangco, Chair, Philippines

November 2013 6 - 8
- NORNA's 43rd Symposium: Innovations in names and name pattern
  Halmstad, Sweden
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
September 2013 18 - 20
- Joint UNGEGN Division meeting and seminar
  Baltic Division
  Norden Division
  Integration of onomastic data in National Spatial Data Infrastructure
  
  Tallinn, Estonia
  Contacts: Peeter Päll and Peder Gammeltoft
July 2013 4 - 6
- WG on Evaluation and Implementation
  Seoul & Suwon, Republic of Korea
  Contact: Sungjae Choo
- WG on Publicity and Funding
  Seoul & Suwon, Republic of Korea
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
June 2013 17 - 21
- UNGEGN Training Course
  Antananarivo, Madagascar
  Contact: Ms. Nivo Ratovoarison
June 2013 20
- Africa East Division
  Antananarivo, Madagascar
  Contact: Ms. Nivo Ratovoarison
May 2013 25
- WG on Toponymic Terminology
  Kerkira (Corfu), Greece
  Contact: Staffan Nyström
May 2013 23 - 24
- WG on Exonyms
  Kerkira (Corfu), Greece
  Contact: Peter Jordan
September 2012 17 - 21
- UNGEGN Training Course
  Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  Contact: Widodo Edy Santoso
August 2012 26 - 30
- International Geographical Congress (IGC)
  Köln, Germany
  Contact: Cosimo Palagiano, Paulo Márcio Leal de Menezes and Peter Jordan
July 2012 10 - 13
- Arabic Division, 6th Arab Conference on Geographical Names
  Amman, Jordan
  Contact: Mr. Ibrahim Al Gaber
June 2012 10
- Norden Division
  Copenhagen, Denmark
  (In association with the Fifteenth Nordic Name Research Congress, 6-9 June)
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
May 2012 18
- WG on Romanization Systems
  Gdańsk, Poland
  Contact: Peter Päll and Katarzyna Przyszewska
May 2012 16 - 18
- WG on Exonyms
  Gdańsk, Poland
  Contact: Peter Jordan and Katarzyna Przyszewska
April 2012 12 - 14
- Africa South Division
  Gauteng, South Africa
  Contact: Trueman Kubheka
March 2012 28 - 30
- UNGIWG
  12th annual meeting
  Vienna, Austria
  Contact: secretariat@ungiwgsec.org
February 2012 27 - 28
- Asia South-East Pacific South-West Division (ASEPSW)
  19th Division meeting and seminar
  Manila, Philippines
  Contact: Ng Eng Guan (Secretariat, Malaysia)
November 2011 25
- Africa East Division
  Gaborone, Botswana
  (in association with the Consultative Workshop in Gaborone)
  Contact: Nivo Ratovoarison
November 2011 23 - 25
- Consultative Workshop on the Future Orientation of Geographical Names in Africa
  Gaborone, Botswana
  Contact: Chukwudozie Ezigbalike
November 2011 14 - 18
- Planning Meeting for IGU/ICA Commission on Toponymy
  During the IGU Regional Conference 2011
  Santiago, Chile
October 2011 27
- WG on Evaluation and Implementation and WG on Publicity and Funding
  Seoul, Republic of Korea
  Contact: Sungjae Choo; David Munro; Ki-Suk Lee
July 2011 5
- Meeting of the planned ICA/IGU Working Group on Toponymy
  during the 25th ICC, Paris, France
Feb - Mar 2011 28 February - 1 March
- Asia South-West Division (other than Arabic) - Ninth Regional Meeting
  Tehran, Iran
  Contact: Division Chair, Mr. Mahmoud Ilkhan
February 2011 22
- Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division (ASEPSW) - 18th divisional meeting
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Contact: Sr Hj Mazlan bin Ashaari
  - International Seminar of Geographical Names, 22 February 2011
February 2011 11
- Workshop of the EuroGeoNames community
  Zagreb, Croatia
  Contact: Željko Hećimović and Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
February 2011 10 (pm)
- WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers....Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
  Zagreb, Croatia
  Contact: Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
February 2011 9 (10am)
- East Central and South-East Europe Division
  Zagreb, Croatia
  Contact: Željko Hećimović

November 2010 22 - 27
- UNGEGN Training Course (Français / English)
  Yaoundé, Cameroon
  Contact: Brahim Atoui, Michel Simeu Camdem (local organizer)
October 2010 27 - 29
- WG on Terminology and Norden Division
  Uppsala, Sweden
  Contact: Staffan Nyström, Peder Gammeltoft
June 2010 21 - 23
- WG on Evaluation and Implementation and WG on Publicity and Funding
  Vancouver, Canada
  Contact: Ki-Suk Lee, Sungjae Choo, David Munro
May 2010 26 - 29
- Arabic Division, 5th Arab Conference on Geographical Names
  Beirut, Lebanon
  Contact: Maroun Khraish
May 2010 10 - 11
- Second Preparatory Meeting of the Proposed United Nations Committee on Global Geographic Information Management
  New York, United States
  Contact: Amor Laaribi
May 2010
- Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division
  Belogradchik, Bulgaria
  Contact: Vladimir Boginsky
April 2010 28 - 30
- WG on Exonyms
  Tainach, Austria
April 2010 28 (evening)
- Dutch- and German-speaking Division
  Tainach, Austria
  Contact: Peter Jordan
- East Central and South-East Europe Division
  Tainach, Austria
  Contact: Željko Hećimović
April 2010 10
- Meeting of the UNGEGN Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division (in connection with XXIV FIG International Congress 2010)
  Sydney, Australia
  Contact: secre.ungegn.asepsw@bakosurtanal.go.id
October 2009 26 - 29
- 18^th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific
  Bangkok, Thailand
October 2009 25
- 16^th Meeting of the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping(ISCGM)
  Bangkok, Thailand
October 2009 1 - 2
- Baltic Division
  Vilnius, Lithuania
  Contact: Aule Kikas
August 2009 10 - 14
- 9^th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas
  New York, United States
August 2009 5
- International Symposium on Geographical Names
  Bali, Indonesia
  Contact: Widodo Edy Santoso, Bakosurtanal
August 2009 4 - 7
- 10^th South East Asian Survey Conference (SEASC'09)
  Bali, Indonesia
August 2009 4
- Meeting of the UNGEGN Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division
  Bali, Indonesia
May 2009 5 - 12
- 25^th UNGEGN Session
  Nairobi, Kenya
February 2009 5 (half day)
- EuroGeoNames (closing workshop of Consortium and Reference Group)
  Brussels, Belgium
  Contact: Randall Flynn (WGTDFG), Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu (EGN, meeting arrangements)
February 2009 4 (half day)
- WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers
  Brussels, Belgium
  Contact: Randall Flynn, Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
December 2008 2
- Portuguese-speaking Division, as part of the 1st Seminar on Geographical Names of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries held within the 3rd Statistical Conference of the Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)
  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  Contacts: José Elias Mucombo, Moema Augusto
November 2008 24 - 25
- Asia South-East and Pacific South-West Division
  Jakarta, Indonesia
  Contact: Mr. Widodo Edy Santoso
November 2008 19 - 21
- East Central and South-East Europe Division
  Zagreb, Croatia
  Contact: Željko Hećimović
  Other material: Invitation letter, General agenda, General program, Registration form, Logistic support, Hotel information
October 2008 7 - 9
- Norden Division, meeting and symposium
  Jakarta, Indonesia
  Contact: Peder Gammeltoft
September 2008 16 - 18
- Baltic Division
  Kaliningrad, Russia
  Contact: Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia
  Website: http://roskart.gov.ru/, https://email.nrcan.gc.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://roskart.gov.ru/
September 2008 12 - 13
- ICA Commission on national and regional atlases
  Timişoara, Romania
  Contact: Peter Jordan, Serban Dragomirescu
September 2008 9 - 10, 14:00 hours
- Working Group on Exonyms
  Timişoara, Romania
  Contact: Peter Jordan, Serban Dragomirescu
September 2008 6 - 8
- UNGEGN Toponymy Training Course
  Timişoara, Romania
  Contact: Remus Cretan
August 2008 18 - 22
- 23^rd International Congress on Onomastic Sciences
  Toronto, Canada
  Website: http://www.icos2008.yorku.ca
August 2008 12 - 15
- 31^st Congress of the International Geographical Union, Special UNGEGN session relating to Africa
  Tunis, Tunisia
  Contact: Brahim Atoui
August 2008 4 - 8, 14:00 hours
- UNGEGN Training Course (en français)
  Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  Contacts: Brahim Atoui, Claude Obin Tapsoba (local organizer)
June 2008 16 - 22
- 4^th Arab Conference on Geographical Names
  Beirut, Lebanon
  Contact: Maroun Khraish
  Website: http://www.adegn.org/
June 2008 3
- EuroGeoNames (EGN) Workshop of the Consortium and the Reference Group
  Sofia, Bulgaria
  Contacts: Randall Flynn, Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
June 2008 2, 14:00 hours
- WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers (WGTDFG)
  Freising (near München), Germany
  Contacts: Randall Flynn, Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu
May 2008
- ISO TC211 26th plenary session, Involvement of WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers
  Copenhagen, Denmark
  Contacts: Randall Flynn
May 2008 22
- Working Group on Pronunciation and Working Group on Terminology
  Sofia, Bulgaria
  Contacts: Peter Jordan, Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig (Pronunciation), Staffan Nyström (Terminology)
May 2008 19 - 21
- Symposium GeoNames08 (DGSD)
  Vienna, Austria
May 2008 13 - 14
- South-West Division (other than Arabic)
  Tehran, Iran
  Contact: Mr. Yahya Djamour, National Cartographic Center of Iran (NCC), Tehran
May 2008 12 - 17
- Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division
  Sofia, Bulgaria
  Contact: Ms Veneta Fakalieva
April 2008 21 - 23
- Working Group on Evaluation and Implementation, Working Group on Publicity and Funding
  San Francisco, United States
  Contacts: Ki-Suk Lee, David Munro
April 2008 15 - 19
- Association of American Geographers - Involvement of WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers
  Boston, United States
  Contact: Randall Flynn

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