33.3813, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 33.3813, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:22:12
From: Miriam Lind [miriamlind at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Names and Politics

 
Full Title: Names and Politics 

Date: 20-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Mainz, Germany 
Contact Person: Miriam Lind
Meeting Email: namentagung2023 at uni-mainz.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2022 

Meeting Description:

The conference will take place 20.-22. of september 2023 at the Academy of
Sciences and Literature in Mainz, Germany.

Organisation committee: Dr. Daniel Kroiß (TU Darmstadt), Dr. Miriam Lind
(University of Mainz), Lena Späth (University of Mainz)


Call for Papers: 

Names and Politics (20.-22.09.2023, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz,
Germany)

The naming of people and places has always been entwined with the political.
This politics of onomastics has been engaged with since the late 1980s (ALIA
1989), with BOURDIEU (1991, 105) writing of “the permanent power to name and
to create the world through naming” (Bourdieu 1991, 105) as an activity to
which all social agents aspire. Despite these early acknowledgements of the
political and social significance of names and naming, however, political
onomastics has not attracted broad attention, particularly in the
German-speaking world. An exception is the field of (post-)colonial
toponomastics, which critically studies onomastic place-taking in former
colonies and its commemoration in street and place names in the colonising
countries (e.g. STOLZ/WARNKE 2018, EBERT 2021). While political toponomy has
found disparate engagement in the English academy (e.g. BERG/VUOLTEENAHO 2009,
BIGON 2016, JORDAN ET AL. 2021), the politics of personal naming has rarely
been studied at all, even though colonial naming regulations have heavily
impacted the inventory of and attitudes towards personal names in different
areas (e.g. ALIA 2006, LINDGREN 2011).

The politics of personal names and naming features across myriad contexts: in
relation to migration (e.g. when the acquisition of a ‘local’ name is required
for naturalisation); regarding marital or family name choices; regulations on
permissible/legal first name choices (e.g. regarding onymic gender marking or
offensiveness of names); the banning of certain names (e.g. bans on names
denoting particular religious or ethnic belongings as is discussed in
Tajikistan, see THIBAULT 2016); or the obligation for certain groups to bear
socially marked names (e.g. for the Jewish population during the Nazi regime
in Germany, see FRIEDLÄNDER 1998). The politics of naming is further tied to
the politics of memory and nationhood, with streets, places, and buildings
named after individuals or historical events, and emergent disputes regarding
these names and figures that are memorialised (cf. NEMEC/WENNINGER 2019).

Proper names, naming and name usage are embedded in power constellations and
between societal systems of values and beliefs. It is these intersections of
names, power, and politics that this conference intends to address. The
conference takes place on the 20.-22. September 2023 at the Academy of
Sciences and Literature in Mainz, Germany. We welcome theoretical and
empirical papers in English or German from all fields within and across the
social sciences and humanities that address names, naming and name usage from
a political perspective. Abstracts (max. 500 words, English or German) should
be submitted to namentagung2023 at uni-mainz.de. The deadline is 31 Dec, 2022.

Organisation committee: Dr. Daniel Kroiß (TU Darmstadt), Dr. Miriam Lind
(University of Mainz), Lena Späth (University of Mainz)




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