American Name Society Annual Meeting
January 2023, held Online via Zoom
Registration is now open for the 2023 ANS Conference! The ANS conference will take place online, on Zoom, from January 20-22, 2023. The conference is being held online due to concerns about COVID-19 and to include as many members as possible who are not able to travel to the US.
Our conference will include a variety of papers from ANS members all over the world, in addition to reports on the past year’s activities of the ANS, and the Name of the Year vote. The conference will be recorded and will be available online after the conference has concluded.
You can register online here, or download a PDF of the Conference Registration Form and mail it to ANS Treasurer Saundra Wright, as per the instructions on the form.
The conference schedule is now available!
Additional details about the conference will be added to this page soon.
ANS Panel at the Modern Language Association Conference
5–8 January 2023, in San Francisco, CA
Names and Identity in Literature: Contemporary Debates
The politics of names and naming has been brought into sharp relief by several influential scholars and studies during the 21st century. Recent work in this area is exemplified by the papers in edited collections including Luisa Caiazzo and I.M. Nick’s Shifting Toponymies: (Re)naming Places, (Re)shaping Identities (2020), and Guy Puzey and Laura Kostanski’s Names and Naming: People, Places, Perceptions and Power (2016). Debates about names may be symbolic of wider cultural questions about social change and ownership, from post-colonial naming practices to the rights of an individual to (re)name themselves. Papers for this panel will explore questions about names and identity and how they are reflected in contemporary literature. Examples of themes that can be addressed include: contested place-names; post-colonial place-names; transgender names; names and raciolinguistics; names and legal status; names as political statements.
Proposal Submission Process:
- Abstracts proposals (350 words) should be sent as an email attachment (PDF format) to Dr Maggie Scott (m.r.scott@salford.ac.uk);
- Proposals should include “MLA 2023 proposal” in the subject line of the email;
- All submissions must include an abstract, title, full name(s) of the author(s), the author(s) affiliation(s), and email address(s) in the body of the email and NOT with the abstract;
- DEADLINE: Proposals must be received by 8pm GMT on Friday 18 March 2022. Authors will be notified about the results of the blind review on or by 25 March 2022;
- Contributors selected for the thematic panel must be members of both MLA and ANS in order to present their papers, and members of MLA by 7 April 2022;
- For further information, please contact Dr Maggie Scott (m.r.scott@salford.ac.uk).
Download a PDF copy of the full call for papers here
Past ANS Conferences
For programs from past American Name Society conferences, click here.
Other Onomastic Conferences
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