AGM & SPRING CONFERENCE
Saturday, 3 May 2025
The Wynd Centre
6 School Wynd, Paisley, PA1 2DB.
The Society’s Spring Conference will take place on Saturday, 3 May 2025 at the Wynd Centre, Paisley.
AGM & CONFERENCE PLAN
| 10:30 – 11:15 | AGM |
| CONFERENCE (11:15 – 16:30) |
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| 11:15 – 11:40 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11:40 – 11:45 | Welcome! |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | ‘Some interesting Renfrewshire place-names.’ Denis Rixson |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | ‘Place-names and the dating of settlement and peat clearance on the Carse of Stirling.’ Peter McNiven |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | ‘Berwickshire and beyond: Old English in Borders place-names’ Carole Hough |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | ‘Gaelic names in Gaelic orthography from OS name book in Highland / Lowland border counties’ Iain Mac an Tàilleir |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | ‘Machrikil and Kilkerran: a case of saintly misinterpretation’ Michael Ansell |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | ‘Real and fictional place-names in 21st century literature’ Maggie Scott |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Summing Up & Fin |
SPNS 2025 AGM
The conference will be preceded by the Society’s Annual General Meeting. All members are welcome to attend. The materials to be discussed at the AGM, including a voting form for those who cannot be there in person, can be accessed on the AGM page of the SPNS website.
If any member is interested in joining the SPNS Committee, nominations must be received by the Secretary, prior to the Annual General Meeting. Nominations must be made in writing and signed by the nominee, the proposer and seconder, both of whom must be SPNS members. E-mails are acceptable if the e-mail addresses of the proposer and seconder are included.’
STUDENT TRAVEL BURSARY - CULTURAL CONTACTS FUND
Travel grants of up to £200 may be available for helping students who have been invited to speak at SPNS conferences, or who will be presenting papers on Scottish onomastic topics at international conferences.
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
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