A PDF of the program is available for download here.
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
Room: Union Square
3:00-6:00pm Executive Committee Meeting
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Room: Union Square
Conference Opening Address
8:15-8:30 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University), Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30-10:00 Names in Literature Part I
CHAIR: Susan Behrens (Marymount Manhattan College)
8:30-9:00 Susan Behrens (Marymount Manhattan College): Literary Onomastics: an introduction
9:30-10:00 Stephen da Silva (Independent Scholar): ‘What a strange name for a dog’: Hugh Walpole’s appropriation and revision of Hamlet
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Names in Literature Part II
CHAIR: Susan Behrens (Marymount Manhattan College)
10:15-10:45 James Butler (Lancaster University): The intent, content, and context narratives of literary namescapes: mapping textual chronotopes of spatial inference
10:45-11:15 Grant Smith (Eastern Washington University): Naming as art in Shakespeare’s Tempest
11:15-11:45 Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University): Naming the creature in Frankenstein in Baghdad.
12:00-1:00 Names of the Year Selection (Union Square)
CHAIR: Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech I:From Ulalume to Hiawatha: the aesthetics of naming in Poe and Longfellow
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
Dr. Andrew C. Higgins (SUNY New Platz)
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Names and Tourism
CHAIR: Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata)
3:15-3:45 Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata): Tourist sites identity: nicknamed and unnamable places.
3:45-4:15 Lindsey Chen (National Taiwan Normal University): Marketing hospitality: an analysis of English names of Taipei hotels
Room: Sutton Place
8:30-10:00 Symbolic Naming Strategies
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
8:30-9:00 Nicholas Waters (Independent Scholar): Wakarimasen: It’s English— but not as we know it
9:00-9:30 Rebecca Lurie Starr (National University of Singapore), Stephanie S. Shih (University of Southern California), Alan C. L. Yu (University of Chicago): Sound symbolic effects in Mandarin and Cantonese Pokémon names
10:00-10:15 Break
10:45-11:15 Cross-Cultural Toponymy
10:45-11:15 Ivan Roksandic (University of Winnipeg, Canada) Indigenous Toponomastics in the Western Caribbean
11:15-11:45 Rizwan Ahmad (Qatar University) Renaming during the Hindu nationalist rule: Marginalization of Dalits and minorities
3:15-4:45 Systems of Onomastic Inquiry
CHAIR: Lisa Spira (Ethnic Technologies)
3:15-3:45 Lisa Spira (Ethnic Technologies): Access India: parsing Indian names by culture
3:45-4:15 Karen Pennesi (University of Western Ontario), Nadja Schlote (Yorkville University): Newsworthy: names as discursive figures in online discourse
4:15-4:45 Brian D. Joseph, Christopher G. Brown, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Micha Elsner, Alexander H. Erdmann, Petra Ajaka, Matias D. Grioni, Andrew Kessler, Hannah Young, James C. Wolfe, Colleen Kron, William Little, Benjamin Allen (The Ohio State University): What’s in a name? Issues in Named Entity Recognition
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 Words of the Year Vote with the American Dialect Society
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Saturday, January 5, 2019
Room: Union Square
8:00-9:30 Names, Naming, Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Part I
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding)
8:00-8:30 Sharon N. Obasi, Richard Mocarski, Natalie Holt, Debra A. Hope, Nathan Woodruff (University of Nebraska-Kearney): I call myself: assessing gender identity and renaming strategies among Transgender or Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Adults
8:30-9:00 Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong) Medicalized naming practices and the pathologization of intersex bodies
9:00-9:30 Al Crowley (University of South Carolina): Trans enough? Nonbinary YouTubers and the transgender label.
9:30-9:45 Break
9:45-11:15 Names, Naming, Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation Part II
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding)
10:15-10:45 Carly Dickerson (The Ohio State University): Naming Albania’s Sworn Virgins.
10:45-11:15 Chloe Brotherton (UC Davis): The construction of asexual and non-binary identities on Tumblr through naming practices.
11:15-11:30 Break
12:45 -1:45 Onomastic Curiosities
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
12:00-12:30 Catherine Davies (The University of Alabama): Epithetic nicknames as insults directed at Trump by online citizen-satirists
12:30-1:00 Joseph Pentangelo (CUNY): Grizzel Greedigut: a name “no mortall could invent”
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech II:Inconvenient Truths in Brand Naming
CHAIR: Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding)
Aaron Hall (Siegel+Gale)
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Toponymy and Cultural Identity
CHAIR: Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata)
3:45-4:15 Olena Fomenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine): Ukraine or the Ukraine? The power of naming and national identity
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 ANS Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation
Room: Sutton Place
8:00-9:30 Naming Trends
CHAIR: Yi-An Chen (Indiana University Bloomington)
8:00-8:30 Andoveloniaina Rasolofo (Purchase College): A linguistic perspective on Malagasy proper names and identity
8:30-9:00 Jong-Mi Kim (Kangwon National University): Phonological trends of naming simplification and globalization
9:30-9:45 Break
9:45-11:15 Naming as Marketing
CHAIR: Amy Franz (Ethnic Technology)
9:45-10:15 Alessia Cherici (Indiana University), Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University): Genderization, beautification, or dudeification? Different approaches to beer naming
10:15-10:45 Lisa Abney (Northwestern State University): Naming practices in alcohol and drug recovery centers, adult daycares, and private hospitals
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Names, Gender, and Culture
CHAIR: Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University)
11:30-12:00 Cleveland Evans (Bellevue University): Empire State Babies: the top 100 given names in New York, 1960-2017
12:00-12:30 Yi-An Chen (Indiana University Bloomington): Social expectations, gender roles, and gendered names in Taiwan
12:30-1:00 Masahiko Mutsukawa (Nanzan University, Japan): Japanese disyllabic and bimoraic given names
3:15-4:45 Names in the Work Place
CHAIR: Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Louisiana Tech University)
3:15-3:45 Enkhjargal Purev (National University of Mongolia), Purevsuren Bazarjav (National University of Mongolia): Color words as geographic names in the Mongolian language
3:45-4:15 Wenchuan Huang (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan): Renaming the past in Postcolonial Taiwan: Translation of streetscapes in the cities of Taiwan
7:00-9:30 ANS Conference Dinner
Carragher’s Pub and Restaurant
228 West 39th Street, New York, NY
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
Room: Union Square
8:00-9:00 ANS Executive Council Meeting