The American Name Society Annual Meeting for 2021 will be held online using the Crowdcast platform. It is accessible via Mac or PC; the Google Chrome browser will give best results.
There is a sharable Google doc showing global times in a table format. You can view that document here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kvH7ip8YLJzDJdux-f8yZNTj1eXtqUb1poFa1OLcJ20/edit?usp=sharing
Conference registration is at this link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/american-name-society/register
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Friday, January 22, 2021
ALL TIMES ARE UTC -8:00, PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Conference Opening Address
1:00-1:30 PM Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding), Welcome and Opening Remarks
CHAIR: TBD
1:30 PM Wojciech Wloskowicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland}: General theory of name and naming policy: an outline
2:00 PM Gabriel Frazer-McKee & Patrick Duffley (Laval University, Quebec City, Canada): What type of cognitive mechanism is responsible for the expressed meanings of individual-denoting names in degree adverb constructions? Conclusions from a corpus-driven investigation of the expressed meanings of “very Kurt Cobain”
2:30 PM Russell Fielding (Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA): “A change of name during sickness”: surveying the widespread practice of renaming in response to physical illness
CHAIR: TBD
3:00 PM Diane Allen West (University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica): I am Human by Name: Onomastic Footprints of Identicide
3:30 PM Jong-mi Kim (Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea): Phono-onomastics of brand names: What makes brand names sound and look good?
CHAIR: TBD
4:00 PM Lindsey Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan): Naming Patterns of Pet Boarding Businesses
4:30 PM William Turner (Independent Researcher, Arlington, VA): A Critical Study of Names in MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville
5:00 PM Anna Tsepkova (Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia): Functions and Symbolism of Place Names in S. Townsend’s Adrian Mole Diary Series
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
Topic: Place Names
CHAIR: TBA
8:00 AM Phung Thi Thanh Lam (Vietnam National University Ha Noi, Vietnam): Street names in the Vietnam Innovation Context: Politics of Decommemoration, Politics of Toponymic Continuity, or Politics of Building New Future?
8:30 AM Nazmun Khatun (Kabi Nazrul Government College, Dhaka, Ministry of Education, Bangladesh): Dispel the Confusion: The name of Karatoya River remained the same after a long journey
9:00 AM Anna Isakova (University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia): Hybrid names of cafes and restaurants in the communicative space of the city
9:30 AM Becki Maddock (Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, UK): South Arabian Toponyms
10:00 AM Yliana Rodriguez (Leiden University, The Netherlands, & Universidad de la República, Uruguay): Rioplatense Spanish gaucho toponymy in the Falkland Islands
10:30 AM Dr. Iman Nick, Editor-in-Chief of NAMES: The state of the journal and the future of NAMES
CHAIR: TBD
11:00 AM Idowu Odebode (Redeemer’s University, Nigeria: Hair Moniker): A pragma-semiotic study of women hairstyles among the Yoruba Africans
11:30 AM Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (Sao Paulo University, Brazil): A classification of artificial place names in indigenous languages in Brazil
12:00 PM Linda Mëniku (Tirana University, Tirana, Albania): Street names in Tirana
12:30 PM Break
CHAIR: TBD
1:00 PM Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College, Cleveland, Ohio, USA): Renaming Cleveland Baseball: A Case Study
1:30 PM Philip Duncan (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA & Henry Zenk, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Portland, Oregon, USA): Some long overdue linguistic detective work: The origin of the name Willamette
2:00 PM Dennis Noson (Independent Scholar, Seattle, WA, USA): Extravagant Naming: A Map of Concord Places and Thoreau’s “Kalendar” Project
2:30 PM Danielle Cyr (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada): Algonquian Place Names in Canada as ancient narratives about migration roads
3:00 PM Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (Sao Paulo University, Brazil): Place Names with the Tupo Postposition–PE in Brazilian Territory
3:30 PM ANS Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Topic: Personal Names
CHAIR: TBD
10:00 AM Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): Given name popularity in The Netherlands since 1790
10:30 AM Clare Green (University of London, UK): A name in each language: creative strategies to naming children in multilingual families
11:00 AM Andrew Harvey (Leiden University, the Netherlands) & Chrispina Alphonse (University of Dodoma, Tanzania): Names and naming in Gorwaa and Iraqw: a typological Tanzanian perspective
11:30 AM Jack Keilo, Sorbonne (Independent Researcher, Créteil, France): The different names of the Levantine Christian community
CHAIR: TBD
12:00 PM Marie Reiger (University of Bologna, Italy): Names as Indicators of Cultural Heritage
12:30 PM Ayokunmi Ojebode (Ajayi Crowther University, Nigeria): Africanising Literary Nomina Propria in African Literature: Onomastic Semiosis as a Critical Theory
1:00 PM Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University, LA, USA): Pleasant Sounds for Unpleasant Ends: Ngaio Marsh’s “Killer” Names
1:30 PM Brandon Simonson, (Boston University, Boston, MA, USA): Vocabulary of Liberation in Aramaic Personal Names
2:00 PM Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California, Altadena, CA, USA): Name Change as Symbolic Reparation
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University): Reflections on the History of Name of the Year
3:30 PM Names of the Year Selection, chaired by Deb Walker
CHAIR: TBD
4:30 PM Made Sri Satyawati (Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia): Naming System in Balinese: A Lexico-Cultural Approach
5:00 PM Jennifer Meei Yau Wei, Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan): Naming candidates as preemptive discursive practice: Cases from 2016 and 2020 Taiwan presidential races
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