Last Modified 17 August 2008

Sunday 17 August

Welcome!

Registration, 15:00 - 18:00, Seymour Schulich Building, Foyer

17:00 - 20:00	Meeting ICOS Board, SSB Executive Learning Centre Private Dining Room

Monday 18 August

Registration, 8:30 - 11:00, Seymour Schulich Building, Foyer

A reduced staff will be available for registration for the remainder of the day.

9:00 - 10:30	Meeting, Editorial Board of Onoma, SSB-S127

11:00 - 12:00	Opening Session Robert R. McEwan Auditorium, W141
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch

NOTE: ALL MEETING ROOMS ARE IN SEYMOUR SCHULICH BUILDING (SSB)

Session A, 13:30 - 15:30
	1. Business Names	2. Jewish Names	3 a. Aboriginal, Indigenous Names	4. Personal Names	5 a. Place Names	5 b. Place Names, Canada	6. Other Names
Room	E112	E115	N105	E111	E118	N106	N107
Chair	Zilg	Demsky	Helander	Gerritzen	Hough	Kully	Davey
13:30 - 14:00	Fomenko Brand Names in Contact: Cross-Cultural Marketing Blunders	Falk On the Name of the Weekly Day of Rest	Thunderbird Wisdom of the Ages: From 'Houses' to Monsters', the Naming Practices of the Coast Tsimshian First Nation	Sundström Rodskarl, Trynta and Spænneklo. Bynames in the Records of the Town Council of Arbogo from the Name-Semantic Point of View		Kerfoot Some Challenges of Names Recognition: The Ontario Geographic Names Board, Canada, 2000-2007	Tan Building Names in Singapore: Multilingualism of a Different Kind
14:00 - 14:30	Lick / Wochele Kentucky Fried Chicken vs. Poulet Frit Kentucky: Canada and its Different National and Linguistic Identities: Implications for the Naming Strategies of Fast Food Chains and their Products	Becker Names of Jews in the Medieval Navarre (11th-15th centuries)		Vikstrand Pre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia	Redondo Lanzas Rasgos dialectales andaluces en la toponimia oficial	Rayburn Nicknames of Ontario's Cities and Towns	Neethling Lifestyle, Worldview and Identity: Names on Customized Vehicle Registration Plates
14:30 - 15:00	Leblanc «Pour éviter de nouvelles affaires Vioxx®... » Vers une vision prototypique des noms de marques		Matthews Changing Patterns in Names of Maori Representative Sportsmen in New Zealand, 1892-2007	Ryman Denoting Non-Natives in 15th Century Stockholm	Coşkun Galatian Place Names Revisited: Intercultural Toponomastics in Central Asia Minor and Galatian History	Weyers Basque Traces in the Toponymy of Newfoundland and Various Coasts of Atlantic Canada	Coates ⁽¹⁾ A Natural History of Proper Naming in the Context of Emerging Mass Production: The Case of British Railway Locomotives
15:00 - 15:30	Sefrioui Que se cache-t-il derrière les noms de marques biologiques?		Lawson / Zavyalova The Cultural and Language Effects of the Influence of Russian on West Siberian Tatars	Siliņa-Piņķe Rufnamen in Riga im 15. Jahrhundert	Foster Empire and Names: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh	Léonard Toponymie et contrepoids aux effets du paysage linguistique en situation de contact des langues	Ahrens Naming of Minivan Taxis Used for Public Transportation in the Caribbean
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Plenary Session, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, SSB-W141 André Lapierre, University of Ottawa, Canada A mari usque ad mare: Reflections on the Toponymy of Canada – Regards sur la toponymie du Canada
17:30 - 18:30	Opening Reception, SSB-Foyer/CIBC Market Place sponsored by York University
19:30 - 22:00	UNGEGN Working Group on Terminology/ ICOS Terminology Committee, SSB-S127

Tuesday 19 August

Session B, 8:30 - 10:30
	1. Names in Literature	2. Jewish Names	3 a. Aboriginal, Indigenous Names	4. Place Names	5 a. Personal Names	5 b. Personal Names	6. Proper Names in Social Encounters
Room	E112	E115	N105	E118	E111	N106	N107
Chair	Ahrens	Lawson	Pedersen	Nilsson	Kuhn	Vizmuller-Zocco	Ainiala / De Stefani
08:30 - 09:00	Barry III First Names of Fictional Characters in Novels by Charlotte Bronte		Louis Hawaiian Storied Place Names: The Journey from Un-naming to Re-placing	Balode Livonian - The Less Spoken Indigenous Language in Latvia and its Toponymical Heritage	Baldetti Un document inédit sur l'anthroponymie des Marches en 1312	Rodriguez Estranjeros y sus nombres en Alemania. Tendencias en el proceso de elegir y poner nombres entre familias extranjeras o biculturales en Alemania	Ainiala / De Stefani Proper Names in Social Encounters: A Theoretical and Methodological Introduction
09:00 - 09:30	Smith Ethnic, Class, and Occupational Identities in Shakespeare's Names	~~Odebode~~ ~~A Socio-semantic Interpretation of Selected Jewish and African Names in Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horseman"~~ Paper Not Given	Nash One Territory, Many Maps: Aspects of Place Names and Naming on Norfolk Island	Cekula / Gitendorfa Village Names of Latgale and Līvu Krasts in the Book, "Villages of Latvia. Names, Geographical Location"	Yasyba Türkische Namen in Deutschland: zwischensprachliche und multikulturelle Beziehungen	Catledge Identifying Feminine Names in Medieval Lombardy	De Stefani Constructing the Social Space: Toponyms and Place Descriptions in Interaction
09:30 - 10:00	Entzenberg With Another Name: The Use of Pseudonyms among Writers 1870-1920	Hamidovic Do Qumran Inscriptions Show the Hellenization of Qumran Residents ?	Clark Multiple Aboriginal Place Names in Western Victoria, Australia	Alas The Changing of Place Names in Pöide Parish, Saarema, Estonia	Farkas ⁽¹⁾ Surnames of Foreign Origin in Language Contact Situations: The Reasons and Ways of their changes and their Influence on the Surname Stock in Hungary	Schorr Greek Personal Names in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul. A Survey
10:00 - 10:30	Le Guillou Essai d'onomastique sandienne	Demsky Jewish Names and the Shoah: Implementation and Recollection	Helander Renaming Indigenous Toponymy in Official Use in the Light of Contact Onomastic Theories	Saar Die meistgebrauchten Wege der Ortsnamengebung in Võrumaa, Estland	Aldrin Adaptation, Conservation or Something Else? The Choice of First Names in Multilingual/Multicultural Families in Contemporary Sweden.	Dell'Aira St. Benedict from San Fratello (Messina, Sicily): An Afrosicilian Hagionym on Three Continents	Pepin La catégorie du nom propre dans les interactions sociales à l'exemple d'activités scolaires
10:30 - 11:00	Break

Session C, 11:00 - 12:30
	1. Street Names	2. Jewish Names	3 a. Place Names	3 b. Place Names	3 c. Place Names	4. Personal Names	5. Proper Names in Social Encounters
Room	N105	E115	E111	E112	E118	N106	N107
Chair	Wahlberg	Demsky	Schneider	Löffler	Kremer	Brylla	De Stefani / Ainiala
11:00 - 11:30	Päll Historical Multilingualism of Street Names in Estonia		Kully 'Guotmann' und 'Bonhomme': Ein nicht ganz neuer Deutungsvorschlag	Nguessan / Kouadio ⁽¹⁾ Toponymy and Natural Environment: A Retrospective Study of Environmental Changes Based on Toponyms	Zschieschang Ortsnamen, Siedlungslandschaften und Ethnien in der nordböhmischen Elbtallandschaft	Gerritzen First Names and Globalization	Ainiala Use of Toponyms in Spoken Language: the Case of Vuosaari in Helsinki
11:30 - 12:00	Lehtonen Street Names in Two Languages - Bilingualism in Helsinki	Farkas ⁽²⁾ Jewish Surname Changes in Hungary (19th-20th century)	Jansone Lexemes 'sala' and 'āres' in Latvian Toponyms	Nilsson Standardization of Swedish Place Names Yesterday and Today	Harvalík Czech Toponyms of Foreign Origin as Witnesses of Multicultural Contacts in Central Europe	Virkkula International First Names in South-Slavonic Europe	Eskelinen Functions of Urban Place Names
12:00 - 12:30	Vincze Probleme der deutschen Straßennamenchronologie und -typologie im Zeitabschnitt von 862 bis 1711 auf dem von Madjaren besiedelten Gebiet des Karpatenbeckens	Ben-Amos A Jewish Surname between Family Tradition and Scholarly Analysis	Fridell Old English "meresteall" and Old Swedish "*marstall". A Northwest Germanic Compound and Place Name Element?	Munteanu Das choronymische Mikrosystem des Rumänischen. Eine historische Darstellung	Štěpán Oppositions in Toponymy	Lillian Regional Variation in North American Women’s Surname Choices	Thériault Linguistic Social Encounter in Oral Microtoponymy
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch

Session D, 14:00 - 15:30
	1 a. Other Names	1 b. Other Names	2. Alpine and Mountain Names	3. Toponymy within Cartographic Language	4 a. Personal Names	4 b. Personal Names	5. Names in an Educational Setting	6. ICOS Bibliography Session
Room	E112	N107	E115	E111	N105	N106	E118	S335
Chair	Ahrens	Lillian	Hausner	Ferland	Embleton	Balode	Smith
14:00 - 14:30	~~Oha~~ ~~An Enquiry into Chieftaincy Titles among the Igbos of Southeastern Nigeria~~ Paper Not Given	Trudel Sémantique différentielle du théonyme Dieu Très Haut dans la Genèse : une étude exploratoire	Rampl Alpkultur - A Project with New Methods in Onomastics	Wolodtschenko Atlas Index: Structure, System and Name Collection	Czopek-Kopciuch Vornamen von polnischen Immigranten im Ruhrgebiet	Bramwell Names in Multi-Cultural Scotland: Personal Naming in the Muslim Pakistani Community in Glasgow	De Vinne / Johnson Name Histories of U.S. Women's Colleges: Local Imprint, Global Impact	Gerritzen / van Dalen-Oskam 14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to the Use of the New ICOS Bibliography Project ICOS Internet Cafe, Seymour Schulich Building
14:30 - 15:00	~~Abbasova~~ ~~Some Aspects of Personal Names in Proverbs and Sayings~~ Paper Not Given		~~Schneitberger~~ ~~Berg-, Alm- und Flurnamen von Chamonix/Frankreich im Lichte der Mehrsprachigkeit und Multikulturalität~~ Paper Not Given	Sipkova Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms -A New Project of Czech Linguistics	Parfyonova / Savinykh Human Evaluation in Russian Appellative Anthroponymy (on Zauralye Archival Sources of the XVI-XIX Centuries)	Brylla Female Names and Male Names. Equality between the Sexes	Wright The Effects of Informal Address in the College Classroom
15:00 - 15:30	Hlongwa Nicknames of South African Soccer Teams and Players as Symbols of Approbation in a Multilingual and Multicultural Country		Kathrein Interdisziplinäre Verankerung der Onomastik im Spezialforschungsbereich: "HiMAT --- History of Mining Activities in the Tyrol and Adjecent Areas"	Cizmarova Interactive Digital Version of a Dictionary of Minor Place Names	Joalaid Balto-Finnic Personal Name Suffixes		Tuzlukova Proper Names in Education: Local Traditions and Global Tendencies
15:30 - 16:30	Canadian Society for the Study of Names/Société canadienne d’onomastique, General Meeting, E112				Richard Coates, Special Report on the Survey of English Place Names Project, E111
16:30 - 17:30	Plenary Session, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, SSB-W141 Lynn Peplinski and Sheila Oolayou, Inuit Heritage Trust, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada Not an Empty Wasteland: Renaming in the Canadian Arctic. Names, Language and Orthography Reflecting Centuries of Inuit Land Use and Occupancy
17:30 - 18:30	Reception, SSB-Foyer/CIBC Market Place Sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Names/Société canadienne d’onomastique

Wednesday 20 August

Excursion Day

Niagara Falls Tour

Pick up for Niagara Falls tour will be at York University, 8:30 am; returning at approximately 7:00 pm

Thursday 21 August

Session E, 8:30 - 10:00
	1. Personal Names	2 a. Place Names	2 b. Place Names	2 c. Place Names	3. Toponymy in Cartographic Language	4. Other Names	5. Sign Language
Room	N105	E115	E112	N107	E111	E118	N106
Chair	Sundström	Helleland	Vizmuller-Zocco	Kerfoot	Wolodtschenko	Neethling	Ahrens
08:30 - 09:00	Brouwer Why Many Dutch Surnames Look So Archaic: The Exceptional Orthographic Position of Names	~~Alpatov~~ ~~English Place-Names with Christian Associations~~ Paper Not Given	Saura Rami La toponimia como reserva lingüística de un espacio recesivo: el caso del aragonés (España)	Van Langendonck / Van deVelde Functions of the Definite Article with Proper Names	Ferland Geospatial Ontologies : Entity Labelling vs. Generic Feature Names	~~Ivashchyshyn / Andreychuk~~ ~~The Names of Concepts for Multilingual Communication: Ukrainian Experience~~ Paper Not Given
09:00 - 09:30	Hagåsen Restrictions against Alliteration and End Rhyme in the Swedish System of Personal Names	Hough 'Find the Lady': The Term "Lady" in English and Scottish Place Names	Casanova Valencian Toponymy in the Arab, Aragon and Catalan World Presented in Spanish	Gasque The Definite Article 'The' in U. S. Place Names	Dehlin Presentation of Saami Place Names on Swedish Maps during the Last 100 Years	~~Kolesnyk~~ ~~Folklore Onomastics: The Present State and Perspectives~~ Paper Not Given	P. Matthews / D. McKee / R. McKee Country Names in Sign Languages
09:30 - 10:00	Dechief Forms and Norms: Theorizing Immigration-Influenced Name Changes in Canada	Coates ⁽²⁾ A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of the Northwest European Islands	Tort Donada Agrarian Landscapes and Toponymy in the European Mediterranean Region	Tempan Towards a Chronology of Topographical Elements in Irish Place Names	Ormeling Names in a 17th Century Atlas of the Dutch East India Company	Vasileva Proper Names in the Russian Word Associative Net	Reck Pointy Helmets and Buckteeth - Naming in Sign Language. An Exploration
10:00 - 10:30	Break

Session F, 10:30 - 12:00
	1 a. Personal Names	1 b. Personal Names	2. Aboriginal, Indigenous Names	3 a. Place Names	3 b. Place Names	3 c. Place Names	4. Names in Contact
Room	E112	E115	N105	E118	E111	N106	N107
Chair	Becker	Hagåsen	Clark	Coates	Léonard	Leino	Leibring
10:30 - 11:00	Wirth Les noms de famille composés en Lorraine	N. Felecan Baptismal Names and their Inflectional Forms in the Subdialect of Maramureş	Walsh Political Issues in Australian Aboriginal Toponymies	Schweickard Prolegomena zu einer historischen Variationsgrammatik der italienischen Toponyme		Puzey Opportunity or Threat? The Role of Minority Toponyms in the Linguistic Landscape	Kuhn Nomination als Phänomen am Schnittpunkt zwischen Onomastik und kritischer Diskursanalyse
11:00 - 11:30	Hussar Changes of Estonian First Names in the 19th Century	Balodis Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present.	Kagami Changes and Traces of Ainu Place Names in Contact with Japanese	Helleland Place Names and Identities	Germain La toponymie comme pomme de discorde dans un pays «multilingue»: le cas de la Belgique	Jordan Use of Place Names on Road Signposts. Examples of Practice in Central Europe	Laîné Modifications phonétiques et morphologiques affectant les toponymes et les anthroponymes d’origine scandinave lors de leur introduction en français
11:30 - 12:00	O. Felecan Romanian-Ukrainian Connections in the Anthroponymy of the Northwestern Part of Romania	~~Fercsik~~ ~~The Classification of Hungarian First Names by Origin~~ Paper Not Given	Pedersen Toponymy and Identity in a Language Shift Situation	Nguessan / Kouadio ⁽²⁾ A Study of the Semantics of Baoulé Toponymy	Hughes When Onguiaahra Became Niagara (and 'The Mountain' Became 'The Escarpment')	Nyström Urban Name Environments in a Multicultural Perspective	Ngeow / Kong Understanding Chinese Students' Naming Culture: What's up with Wing-Yu and Fish?
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 17:30	ICOS General Meeting, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, SSB-W141
18:00 - 19:00	Reception, SSB-Foyer/CIBC Market Place Sponsored by the American Name Society Co-hosted by the Society and by the following members: Derek and Donna Alderman, Aaron Demsky, Christine De Vinne, Tom and Alice Gasque, Helen Kerfoot, André Lapierre, Ed and Irene Lawson, Donna Lillian, Michael McGoff and Donna Pylypciw, Jane Messenger, Alleen and Don Nilsen, Don and Martha Orth, Alan Rayburn, Richard Randall, Jenny Runyon, Grant and Lelia Smith, Ken Tucker and Brenda Esson, and Kemp Williams.
19:00	Banquet Seymour Schulich Building Executive Learning Centre Dining Room

Friday 22 August

Session G, 8:30 - 10:30
	1 a. Business Names	2. Other Names	3. Theory, Linguistic Aspects of Names	4 a. Place Names	4 b. Place Names	5 a. Personal Names	5 b. Personal Names	6. ICOS Bibliography Session
Room	E112	E111	E115	N105	E118	N107	N106	S335
Chair	Leblanc / Hoffman	Lillian	Embleton	Van Langendonck	Tort Donada	Lapierre	Arcamone
08:30 - 09:00	Hoffmann How Onomastics Can Contribute to Solving a Marketing Problem: the Case of Eurasia	Beaulieu Traduction multilingue de toponymes en botanique		Fetzer 'Fremdes Namengut': Nachbenennungen in neueren Toponymen. Nebraska und weitere Namen aus Übersee	Tóth Settlement Name Strata in the Multilingual Carpathian Basin		Kremer Doppelvornamen in Westfalen. Beobachtungen zur historischen Vornamengeographie
09:00 - 09:30	Rieger 'VERGNANO' is not Italian, because I Can't Understand It. The Perception of Pseudo-Italian Product Names by German Speakers	Leibring Zwartje, Flight of Delight and Chikai: Borrowed Names for Domestic Animals in Sweden	~~Ivanova~~ ~~Problèmes de la terminologie des sciences onomastiques~~ Paper Not Given	Dimitrova-Todorova Die Toponyme in einer bulgarischen Bilingualismus-Situation	Győrffy Old Hungarian Hydronyms in the Multilingual Carpathian Basin	López Franco La prénomination à Tlalnepantla de Baz, État de Mexico, au Mexique, tout au long du XXe siècle	~~Selimski~~ ~~Chronological Strata of Christian Names in Bulgarian Anthroponymy~~ Paper Not Given	Gerritzen / van Dalen-Oskam Introduction to the Use of the New ICOS Bibliography Project 9:30 - 10:30 ICOS Internet Cafe, Seymour Schulich Building
09:30 - 10:00	Zilg WULEVU wuerstel? Eine Darstellung produktgruppenspezifischer Aspekte italienischer Markennamen des Lebensmittelmarktes	~~Westney~~ ~~Culinary Toponyms: Place Names in North American Recipes~~ Paper Not Given	Skybina / Muzya Ontological Characteristics of Toponyms and Methods of their Lexicographic Description	Wahlberg Landskrona, Sibirien and Jeriko. Borrowed Place Names in Sweden down through the Ages	Særheim Urban naming and Cultural Identity	Mamazhakypova Some Main Peculiarities of Modern Kyrgyz Personal Names.	Adams Power and the Pragmatics of Nicknames
10:00 - 10:30		Pandey "It's Feng, not Fang!" and "Was it Borat or Boris?" Examining the Orthography of Onomastic Insult in 21st Century Hollywood		Agertz Name Change due to Monastic Ownership		Ntihirageza / Duchaj Survival by Loss of Identity: The Power of Names among Burundian Refugees in Tanzania	D. Felecan / O. Felecan Postcommunist Political Satire Illustrated in the Nicknames of Romanian Politicians
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary Session, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, SSB-W141 Adrian Koopman , University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Southern African Onomastic Research
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch

Session H, 13:30 - 15:00
	1. Terminology	2 a. Place Names	2 b. Place Names	2 c. Place Names	3 a. Personal Names	3 b. Personal Names; Projeccts, Data Bases	4. Names in Literature	5. Bibliographies
Room	E111	E112	E115	E118	N105	N106	N107	S335
Chair	Lapierre	Gasque	Nyström	Löffler	Casanova	Schweickard	van Dalen-Oskam
13:30 - 14:00	Faster Contractions in Balto-Finnic Place Names	~~Alpatov~~ ~~Conceptual Structure of Emergent Place Names~~ Paper Not Given	Ainiala / Vuolteenaho Slang Toponyms in Early Twentieth Century Helsinki	Schneider „Munie-Mauri-Mort”. Neue Fundstücke aus der romanisch-germanischen Sprachmischzone in der westlichen Schweiz	Accolla Contacts médiatiques et migrations onomastiques à Catane (Italie)	Schmuck / Dräger The German Surname Atlas Project - Computer-Based Surname Geography	Kvašytė Proper Names in Recent Lithuanian Translations of Canadian Authors	Lawson Introduction to various bibliographies and discussion. 13:30 - 14:30 Internet Cafe, Seymour Schulich Building
14:00 - 14:30	Torensjö Inappropriate Place Names -- Do They Exist?	Bušs Once Again about the Theoretical Aspects of the Difference between Exonyms and Endonyms	Reinsma New Names for Municipalities Merging from Two or More Villages or Towns	Platt Multiethnische Aspekte in den Flurnamen Wiens und Niederösterreichs	Imomova / Begmatov La formation des prénoms ouzbeks	Hausner FamOs - Österreichische Familiennamen Online	Piemonti The Destiny in the Name
14:30 - 15:00		Molchanova The Correlation between Part and Whole in Altai (South Siberia) River Names	Leino Multilingual Names on the Finnish Basic Map	Gendron Oralité et microtoponymie dans le canton de Grand-Bourg (Creuse, France)	~~Tomás Arias~~ ~~La onomástica sefardí como testimonio de algunos términos léxicos aragoneses~~ Paper Not Given	Jochum-Godglück Das Saarbrücker Forschungsprojekt 'Onomastik und Akkulturation'	Arhip Proper Names in Camil Petrescu's Work
15:00 - 15:15	Break

15:15 - 16:45	Closing Session, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, SSB-W141