La vie sociale des noms et les pratiques de nomination dans les contextes migratoires
Abstract
This workshop aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies. It is convened as part of the multidisciplinary research project DIASCO-TIB project (ANR 23 CE41 0017) that examines various processes of linguistic and social convergence and divergence at play in the Tibetan diaspora, mainly in France but also in other geographical spaces.
Announcement
This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies.
- Dates: November 20-21, 2025.
- Venue: Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online: https://page.hn/neu86w
- No registration required, in-person or online.
Program
Day 1 – Thursday 20 November 2025
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 10:00 Opening remarks from the DIASCO-TIB team
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1. Social mobility and empowerment
Chair: Xénia de Heering
- Soumya Talbioui | Les pratiques de (re)nomination chez les femmes migrantes à Casablanca comme moyen de négociation et d’affirmation identitaire
- Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Machunwangliu Kamei | Becoming through naming: Applying southern thinking to trouble imaginaries that link land–peoples–culture–language (online)
- Bhawani Buswala | Migration and onomapolitics of the urban poor in India
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Panel 2. Claiming places through toponyms
Chair: Sanchuan (Samten) Wang
- Tenzin Saldon | Politics of cultural identity: A comparative study of the names of Tibetan refugee settlements in India, Nepal, and Bhutan
- Jean-Cosme Rouzaud, Julien Blanco and Stéphanie Carrière | Naming the land through migration: Toponymic dynamics and power struggles in the Central Highlands of Madagascar (online)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3. Place-making in urban contexts
Chair: Camille Simon
- Qiang Zhang | The flow of names: Naming practices and coexistence in multiethnic Penang, Malaysia (online)
- Nicola Schneider | From Changistan to Bubble Tea: the Tibetan quarter of Majnu-ka-Tilla in Delhi
- Françoise Robin | Tibet-on-Seine? Relocating Tibet in Paris through restaurant names
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 4. Naming systems and identities
Chair: Maria Coma Santasusana
- Miyako Hayakawa | Le (non)emploi du prénom chez les migrants japonais en France : persistance, acculturation, et transgression des mœurs langagières
- Sonja Entzenberg, Leila Mattfolk and Lena Wenner | Personal names in a multicultural context: Names as markers of identity
- Annamária Ulla Szabó T. | Names and heritage identity
19:00 Dinner
Day 2 – Friday 21 November 2025
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 5. Multi-ethnic/cultural encounters in medieval sources
Chair: Françoise Robin
- Sébastien Gréal | Diversity of names and titles used in the Tarim Basin: The case of the colophon of the Khotanese Mañjuśrī-nairātmyāvatārasūtra
- Chang Yui Cheong Richards | Those who serve the Sun lineage: A study the names of the five clans of Zhang Zhung in the 10th-11th century (online)
- Pascal Chareille and Pierre Darlu | Migrations et pratiques anthroponymiques au IXe siècle au sein des familles de dépendants de l’abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Prés
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel 6. Multiple renaming
Chair: Ornella Puschiasis
- Lucile Lebrette | Se nommer soi-même. L’usage des pseudonymes en migration, entre peur du contrôle et reprise de pouvoir
- Mathilde Weibel | Se nommer en mouvement. Changements et choix de noms dans la migration des Afghans vers l’Europe
- Ana Fiod | Unfixing the name: Delaying recognition in children’s naming practices in Haiti
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 7. Naming people and places in colonial and post-colonial times
Chair: Anne-Sophie Bentz
- Mark Turin | Naming, re-naming, un-naming: Colonial onomastics in the context of movement and migration
- Ngọc Linh Giang | Les erreurs de traduction des prénoms des Chinois du Vietnam : trajectoires migratoires et stratégies identitaires durant la période coloniale française et la République du Vietnam
- Asa Synn | Name and naming in migration contexts: The case of Macao’s gardens (online)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Documentary screening & discussion
- Zozan Balci | Say our names (Australia, 17 min., English subtitles): Naming, Mispronunciation, and the Decolonisation of Linguistic Practice in Anglophone Contexts
17:30 – 18:00 Closing remarks by Mark Turin
18:00 Closing cocktail reception
Places
- Auditorium Dumézil - 2, rue de Lille Paris, France (75007)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Thursday, November 20, 2025 + Friday, November 21, 2025
Attached files
Keywords
- migrations, diasporas, naming practices, pratiques de nomination, onomastique, onomastics
Contact(s)
- Françoise Robin courriel : frobin [at] inalco [dot] fr
- projet DIASCO-TIB courriel : diascotib [at] protonmail [dot] com
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