American Name Society
2008 Annual Meeting
Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
January 3 – 6, 2008
Thursday, 3 January
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Private Dining Room 4
12:00 – 3:30 PM
Personal Names
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh, Emeritus)
4:00 Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University): Crimson Tide and Wolverines, Antebellum Style: A Comparison of Given Names in the 1850 United States Census in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Washtenaw County, Michigan
4:30 Herbert Barry III (University of Pittsburgh, Emeritus) and Aylene S. Harper (Community College of Allegheny County, South Campus): Gender and Racial Differences in Recently Popular First Names
Women and Naming
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College)
5:15 Donna L. Lillian (East Carolina University): Regional Variation in Women’s Surname Preferences
5:45 Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College): Renaming and Gender-Unmarking: Transition in U. S. Women’s Colleges
Names, Nicknames, and Pet Names
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Priscilla A. Ord (McDaniel College)
6:30 Idowu O. Odebode (Redeemer’s University): A Lexico-Semantic Interpretation of Names and Nicknames in Soyinka’s King Baabu (2008 American Name Society Emerging Scholar Award Recipient)
American Name Society Co-Presidents’ Meet and Greet Reception
Room: Astoria
9:00 – 10:30 PM
Friday, 4 January
U. S. Place Names
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Dwan L. Shipley (Western Washington University)
8:30 Ernest L. Abel (Wayne State University): Going to the Devil
9:00 Frank Abate (Dictionaries International): Cincinnati Names and Naming: From Settlement to Today
9:30 Dwan L. Shipley (Western Washington University): Reminisces and Personal Findings Regarding Place Names in and Around the Town of Mannington, Marion County, West Virginia.
Italian and British Surnames
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: D. Kenneth Tucker (Carleton University)
10:15 Jack Shreve (Allegany College of Maryland, Emeritus): The Surnames of a Southern Italian Town
Invited Speaker
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Moderator: Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition)
11:30 – 12:30 AM
Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University): Presentation Names as Indices of Social Trends
Respondents: Donna L. Lillian (East Carolina University), Frank Nuessel (University of Louisville)
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Places: TBA
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Personal Names: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University)
Place Names: Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Research Associates)
Presidential Assigned Nicknames and Personal Name Matching
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition)
2:00 Michael Adams (Indiana University): Nicknames, Interpellation, and Dubya’s Theory of the State
2:30 Kemp Williams (IBM Global Name Recognition): Improved Name Matching Using Regularized Name Forms
Name of the Year Voting
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Cleveland Kent Evans (Bellevue University)
3:15 – 4:15 PM
Names, Personality, and Children’s Name Perception
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Michael F. McGoff (State University of New York at Binghamton)
American Dialect Society Word of the Year/American Name Society Name of the Year Celebration
Room: Private Dining Room 2
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Annual Banquet
Place: The Italian Village, 71 West Monroe Street, Chicago, IL
7:00 PM Social Hour
7:45 PM Dinner
Saturday, 5 January
Annual Business Meeting
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University) and Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University), Co-Presidents
8:30 – 10:00 AM
Names and Identity
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Terrence M. Potter (Georgetown University)
10:15 Karen Duchaj (Northeastern Illinois University) and Jeanine Ntihirageza (Northeastern Illinois University): The Role of Names in Refugee Identity: Search for Invisibility, Not Citizenship Among Burundians in Tanzanian Camps
Musical Groups and Their Names
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Margaret G. Lee (Hampton University)
11:30 Lynn C. Westney (University of Illinois at Chicago): From Aerosmith to the Zombies:
Naming Patterns of Rock and Roll Groups
12:00 Margaret G. Lee (Hampton University): Appeasing While Rebelling: Names of Male and Female Singing Groups in the Malt Shop Memories Collection
Lunch – Interest Group Gatherings
Places: TBA
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Branding: Chris De Vinne (Ursuline College)
Literary Onomastics: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University and Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University)
Invited Speaker
Room: Private Dining Room 3
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Moderator: Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University)
Eric Hamp (University of Chicago, Emeritus): Names and No Names
Respondents: Thomas J. Gasque (University of South Dakota, Emeritus), Alan Rayburn (Alan Rayburn Research Associates)
Personal Name Frequency and Meaning
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Edwin D. Lawson (State University of New York at Fredonia, Emeritus)
3:15 Giovanni R. Ruffini (New York University): Medieval Nubian Names: A Study of Name Frequency and Cultural Colonialism
4:15 Break
4:30 Carol Lombard (University of South Africa): Names Tell Us Stories: Personal Naming in the Niitsitapi Oral Tradition
5:00 Edwin D. Lawson (State University of New York at Fredonia, Emeritus), Raivo Seppo (Viimsi Vald, Estonia), and Richard F. Sheil (State University of New York at Fredonia): Estonian Given Names: Their Pronunciation, Meaning, and Frequency
Executive Council Meeting
Room: Private Dining Room 3
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Linguistic Society of America Reception
Room: International Ballroom (South)
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Sunday, 6 January
Personal and Proper Names Among the Shona, Yoruba, and Baoulé
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Michel Nguessan (Governor’s State University):
9:30 Michel Nguessan (Governor’s State University): The Semantic of Personal Names Among the Baoulé (Ivory Coast)
Literary Onomastics
Room: Private Dining Room 3
Chair: Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University)
9:45 Alleen Pace Nilsen (Arizona State University): Naming as a Literary Technique in Prize-Winning Realistic Fiction for Teens
10:15 Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University): Onomastic Schemes and Tropes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows