The social life of names and naming practices in migration contexts

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Thèmes principaux : 
• Naming and placing selves in migration: the use of names in an individual's or a community's construction;
• Naming and place-making in migration;
• Effects of encounters between different naming systems and their possible coexistence;
• Language contact in names and naming practices, including linguistic transfers and copies;
• Endonymy and exonymy in and by migrant communities;
• Actual use of names and alternative linguistic expressions in everyday interactions, in the cross-cultural context of migration;
• Names, naming and memory in migration contexts;
• Evolution of the connotations and associative meanings of names in the context of migration;
• Agency and contestation in naming practices in migration;
• Name giving and de-naming in migration.

Comité scientifique :
This workshop is convened as part of DiasCo-Tib, ANR 23 CE41 0017 (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-23-CE41-0017), a multidisciplinary research project that examines various processes of linguistic and social convergence and divergence at play in the Tibetan diaspora, mainly in France but also in other geographical spaces.
• Anne-Sophie Bentz, contemporary history, CESSMA, Université Paris Cité
• Maria Coma-Santasusana, anthropology, CESSMA, Université Paris Cité
• Xénia de Heering, sociology, CESSMA, Université Paris Cité
• Françoise Robin, Tibetan studies, IFRAE, Inalco
• Nicola Schneider, anthropology, IFRAE, Inalco
• Camille Simon, linguistics, LACITO, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
• Wang Sanchuan, linguistics, IFRAE, Inalco


Lieu : 
Inalco, Maison de la Recherche, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France.
In-person participation is preferred (please contact us if impossible).


Soumission des résumés : 
Send your 300- to 500-word abstract in English or French (for other languages, please approach the committee) to maria.coma-santasusana@u-paris.fr.


Dates importantes : 
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2025
Workshop: November 20-21, 2025

 

Bibliographie : 
Bramwell, Ellen S. 2016. ‘Ch. 18 Personal names and anthropology.’ In: Hough, Carole (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, 263-278. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.001.0001.
De Stefani, Elwys. 2016. ‘Ch. 4 Names and Discourse.’ In: Hough, Carole (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.001.0001.
Khosravi, Shahram. 2012. ‘White Masks/Muslim Names: Immigrants and Name-Changing in Sweden.’ Race & Class 53, no. 3: 65–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396811425986.
Pennesi, Karen. 2019. ‘Differential Responses to Constraints on Naming Agency among Indigenous Peoples and Immigrants in Canada.’ Language & Communication 64: 91–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2018.11.002.
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Rose-Redwood, Reuben. 2021. ‘The Social and Political Life of Names and Naming: Concluding Commentary.’ Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics 1: 187–198. https://doi.org/10.59589/noso.12021.14734.
Rymes, Betsy. 1999. ‘Names.’ Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9, no. 1/2: 163–66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43102455.
Waldispühl, Michelle. 2024. ‘Personal Names and Migration: An Overview.’ Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics 4, no. 3: 15–58. https://doi.org/10.59589/noso.42024.17635.