60th Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names
Short Title: 2026 CSSN Conference
Theme: Onomastics and Toponymy as Reflections of our World
Date: 06-Jun-2026 – 07-Jun-2026
Location: Online
Contact: Grace Gomashie
Contact Email: ggomashi@uwo.ca
Meeting URL: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/cssn-sco-2026
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature
Submission Deadline: 21-Feb-2026
The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) will hold its 60th Annual Meeting virtually from Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 7, 2026. The 2026 CSSN conference will not be held in conjunction with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada and will take place entirely online.
The general theme of this 2026 CSSN Conference is “Onomastics and Toponymy as reflections of our World”. Papers on any onomastic or toponymic topic are welcome, from any discipline, perspective, or field of study, including but not limited to linguistics, geography, history, economics, literature, archaeology, ethnology, politics, genealogy, administration, taxonomy, and related areas.
Please submit by February 21, 2026, an abstract of 150–250 words in French or English (language of the presentation, which may even be bilingual), including the title of your paper, the full name and affiliation of each author, along with a current email address for each.
Authors are encouraged to present their subject matter with clear questions, research methods and outcomes. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Presenters need not be current CSSN members to submit an abstract but must be CSSN members at the time of the presentation.
More information about membership is available at: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/cssn-sco-membership.
The full call for papers with details for submission of your abstract can be found at: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/cssn-sco-2026
Please email your abstract, written in English or French, to Marie (Aurélie) Thériault, Ph.D., at marie.theriault@umontreal.ca and Grace Gomashie, Ph.D., at ggomashi@uwo.ca by February 21, 2026, at 11:59 PM ET.