Thursday, January 4, 2018
3:00-6:00pm Executive Committee Meeting (Versailles)
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Friday, January 5, 2018
Room: Versailles
Conference Opening Address
8:15-8:30 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University), Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30-9:30 Institutional Naming
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
8:30-9:00 Christine De Vinne (Ursuline College): Reconciling and renaming a legacy of slavery at Georgetown University
9:00-9:30 Candace Caraco (University of Baltimore): University renaming and reshaping of American higher education
9:30-10:00 Break
10:15-10:45 Names in the News
CHAIR: Michael McGoff (SUNY Binghamton)
10:15-10:45 Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University): Elvis and Madonna and Bubba and Rogene: more things learned from writing a newspaper column on given names
12:00-1:00 Names of the Year Selection (Versailles)
CHAIR: Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech I: Fast Accurate Research for Family History
CHAIR: Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University)
Van Celaya (Family History Library, SLC)
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Naming Practices
CHAIR: Kemp Williams (IBM)
3:30-4:00 Carly Dickerson (The Ohio State University), Zef Ortegu (Independent Scholar): My father’s child: naming practices in the northern Albanian highlands
4:00-4:30 Francinah Mokgobo Kanyane (University of South Africa): Pragma-linguistic naming in Sepedi/Sesotho sa Leboa
Room: Belvedere
8:30-10:00 Name Changes
CHAIR: Saundra Wright (California State University, Chico)
8:30-9:00 Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata): Taking Columbus Day off calendar: (re)naming and identity
9:00-9:30 Yi-An Chen (University of Florida): Why do Taiwanese adopt English names? Online discourses of English naming practices
9:30-10:00 Nicholas Waters (Independent Scholar): The lost Ssons of Kansas
10:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Names in Literature
CHAIR: Kenneth Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
3:30-4:00 Cordelia Khoza (University of South Africa): An onomastic look into titles of Xitsonga literary texts
4:00-4:30 Taylor Halverson (Brigham Young University), Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University): The literary purpose of Hebrew and Egyptian paronomasia in ancient scripture
5:00-6:15 Words of the Year Vote with the American Dialect Society in the JW Marriott Grand Ballroom Salons 1 & 2
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Saturday, January 6, 2018
Room: Versailles
8:30-10:00 Interpreting Names
CHAIR: Lisa Spira (Ethnic Technologies)
8:30-9:00 Amy Franz (Ethnic Technologies): The difference between Ariel and Ariel: gender, ethnicity, and names
9:00-9:30 Ellen Osterhaus (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire): The role of syllable structure in name interpretation
9:30-10:00 Giulia Petitta (Gallaudet University), Valerie Dively (Gallaudet University), Mark Halley (Gallaudet University), Marc Holmes (Gallaudet University), Brenda Nicodemus (Gallaudet University): “Can you spell that for the interpreter?”: managing name signs in team interpreting
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Novel Names
CHAIR: Chris De Vinne (Ursuline College)
10:45-11:15 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University): The descendents: Shakespeare’s namesakes in contemporary fiction
11:15-11:45 Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria): Welcome to Trumplandia: onomastic creativity and Trumpian neologisms on Twitter.
11:45-12:30 Lunch Break
12:45 -1:45 Indigenous Names and Naming
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
12:45-1:15 Peter Raper (University of the Free State): Indigenous Bushman (san) influence on place-names in Southern Africa
1:15-1:45 Maryann Parada (California State University, Bakersfield): Indigenous personal names among U. S. Latinos: onomastic outcomes of the Chicano movement
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech II: Naming Extinctions and Navigating Extinction Borders
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
Jeff Yule (Dixie State University)
3:00-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 ANS Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
Room: Belvedere
8:30-10:00 Names and Linguistics
CHAIR: Michel Nguessan (Governors State University)
8:30-9:00 Amin Almuhanna (Kuwait University), Jean-François Prunet (Kuwait University): On the morphological complexity of English
9:30-10:00 Jong-mi Kim (Kangwon National University): Linguistics of naming
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Naming Places
CHAIR: Peter Raper (University of the Free State)
10:15-10:45 Marivic Lesho (University of Bremen), Eeva Sippola (University of Bremen): Historical changes in place names in Metro Manila and Cavite, Philippines
10:45-11:15 Adianys Collazo Allen (Swiss Society of Hispanic Studies): Two, three, or more designations to name the Havana routes: allonyms in the street naming of Cuba’s capitol
11:15-11:45 Saundra Wright (California State University, Chico), Richard Hunt (Peloton Research Partners): Residential development names: a comparison of suburban vs. urban naming trends
11:45-12:45 Lunch Break
12:45-1:15 Names and Toponymy
CHAIR: Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria)
12:45-1:15 Michel Nguessan (Governors State University), Kouamé Désiré Kouakou (Independent Scholar), Sidiki Bamba (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny): Toponymy, ethnicity, and land tenure conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire
1:15-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Names in the Work Place
CHAIR:Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
2:45-3:15 Lisa Spira (Ethnic Technologies), David Spira (AdMelora): Building better forms: It starts with how you ask for a name
3:15-3:45 Dallin Oaks (Brigham Young University), Brad Wilcox (Brigham Young University), Robert Crapo (Brigham Young University): Conversion as an onomastic strategy in advertising and marketing
3:45- 4:15 Kemp Williams (IBM Entity Analytics): Balancing onomastic integrity in threat and fraud detection
7:30-10:00 ANS Conference Dinner
Squatters
147 West Broadway, 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunday, January 7, 2018
Room: Versailles
8:00-9:00 ANS Executive Council Meeting