ANS 2008

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