L'evento proseguirà nei due giorni successivi presso la Sala delle Adunanze di Palazzo Loredan, sito in Campo Santo Stefano e nelle disponibilità dell'Istituto Veneto per le Lettere Scienze ed Arti.

La partecipazione al simposio, che si terrà all'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, è solo su invito.

Venice, 26th September 2018, 14:30-18:00
Special presentation
The Italian Geographic Military Institute and the Veneto Region for a new geographical names database
Veneto Region Palace
Fondamenta S. Lucia, Cannaregio 23
The session will be in Italian
14:30' Registration of participants
15:00' Local session chaired by Eng. Maurizio De Gennaro, Veneto Region (Italia)
- Welcome speeches, greetings and introductory remarks by
Dr. Cristiano Corazzari, Veneto's Regional Minister of territory, culture and security (Italia)
Ms. Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (Canada)
Maj. Gen. Pietro Tornabene, Commander of the Italian Geographic Military Institute (Italia)
Prof. Gherardo Ortalli, President of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Italia)
Presidents of the Italian Scientific Associations of Cartography and Geography.
- Andrea Cantile, Chairman of the UNGEGN, Romano-Hellenic Division (Italia)
The standardization of geographical names in Italy and the joint project IGMI - Veneto Region.
- Franco Alberti et alii, Veneto Region, Responsible for urban and regional planning (Italia)
Presentation of the project "The Italian Geographic Military Institute and the Veneto Region for a new geographical names database".
17:00' Closing

PROGRAMME
27th September 2018
Venue: Palazzo Loredan, headquarters of the Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti,
Campo Santo Stefano, 2945 - Venezia.

10:00' First session chaired by Andrea Cantile, UNGEGN-RHD (Italia)
- Andrea Cantile, Chairman of the UNGEGN, Romano-Hellenic Division (Italia)
"Toponymy and Cartography between History and Geography"

Andreas Hadjiraftis, President of Permanent Committee for the Standardisation of Geographical Names of Cyprus (Kýpros)
Modern maps, Geographic Information Systems and toponymy in Cyprus.

Vania de Oliveira Nagem, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brasil)
State of the art on the standardization of geographical names in Brazil.

Gil Tiago, University of Brasilia and Ca' Foscari Università di Venezia (Brasil) and Vinicius Maluly Université de la Rochelle (France)
The significance of native experience in the creation of colonial toponymy in the Portuguese America.

Cosimo Palagiano, Sapienza Università di Roma, Accademia dei Lincei (Italia)
The activity of the Joint Commission on Toponymy

International Geographical Union - International Cartographic Association.
Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the UNGEGN (Canada)
Where are you flying? On-board airline magazines and their route map toponymy.

Alberto Nocentini, Università di Firenze, Accademia della Crusca (Italia)
Preservation vs. innovation in the toponymy of Europe.

Laura Cassi, Università di Firenze (Italia)
Territorial Identity and Place Names.

Andrea Masturzo, Università di Bergamo (Italia)
Toponymy and colonization, the case of Italian colonial villages in Libya.

Stefano Piastra, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italia)
Urban Toponymy in Shanghai and Tianjin before the Rise of the People's Republic of China. The Presence of Italian Road Names.

Discussion

14:00' Memory picture of the symposium participants in Campo Santo Stefano.

15:00' Second session chaired by Laura Cassi, Università di Firenze (Italia)

Élisabeth Calvarin, Chair of the UNGEGN, French-speaking Division (France)
Dialectical terms and geographical locations.

Lorenzon Arianna (Italia)
Vernacular places names in the Venetian cartography (XVII-XVIII century): a case study.

Silvia Siniscalchi, Università di Salerno (Italia)
The transformations of the place names of Naples in historical and contemporary cartography, between landscape changes and territorial identity.

Furio Ciciliot, Società Savonese di Storia Patria - Progetto Toponomastica Storica (Italia)
The precise toponymy of descriptive cadastre (before XVIII Century).

Giuseppe Scanu (Coordinator), Cinzia Podda, Caterina Madau, Salvatore Lampreu,
Università di Sassari (Italia)
Geo-cartographic aspects of the toponymy of Sardinia between conservation and enhancement.

Elena Dai Prà, Università di Trento (Italia)
Place names as sources to identify landslides risk areas: a diachronic approach to the Trentino case study.

Ayokunmi Ojebode, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State (Nigeria)
Toponymy, History and Geographical System of Selected Place Names in the Cognomen of the Alaafin of Oyo.

Discussion


28th September 2018
Venue: Palazzo Loredan, headquarters of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti,
Campo Santo Stefano, 2945 - Venezia.

11:00' Third session chaired by Élisabeth Calvarin,
Chair of the UNGEGN, French-speaking Division (France)

Marcos Pavo Lopez, Instituto Geográfico Nacional (España)
A gazetteer in the 2nd century: Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia.

Marco Martin, Geography and Historiography in Antiquity (Italia)
The greek ethnonym Romanoi in the Administrando Imperio of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

Viviana Ferrario, Università IUAV - Venezia (Italia)
19th Century cadastres as a source for the toponymy of the Venetian region.

Sergio Pinna, Massimiliano Grava, Giancarlo Macchi Janica, Università di Siena (Italia)
The cadastral particle toponymy of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Nicola Gabellieri, Università di Trento (Italia)
Place names as historical products: boundary conflicts and toponyms disputes in XVIII c. Liguria.

Lucrezia Iacuzzi, Martina Simeone, Università di Firenze (Italia)
Phitonyms, phitotoponyms and landscape's history. The case of the municipalities of Borgo San Lorenzo and Vicchio.

Discussion

12:45' Closing remarks and greetings by
Umberto Trivelloni, Veneto Region, Responsible for regional mapping and GIS
Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the UNGEGN
Maj. Gen. Pietro Tornabene, Commander of the IGMI
Andrea Cantile, Chairman of the UNGEGN-RHD.

14:30' Visit to the "Gallerie dell'Accademia", Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050, Venezia

17:00' End of activities.

Scientific Committee
Andrea Cantile, UNGEGN-RHD, IGMI, Università di Firenze (Italia)
Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the UNGEGN (Canada)
Peter Jordan, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (Österreich).
Carla Marcato, Università di Udine, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Italia)
Alberto Nocentini, Università di Firenze, Accademia della Crusca (Italia)
Cosimo Palagiano, Sapienza - Università di Roma, Accademia dei Lincei (Italia)