36.3281, Confs: International Workshop: The Social Life of Names and Naming Practices in Migration Contexts (France)

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Date: 27-Oct-2025
From: Camille Simon [camille.simon2 at gmail.com]
Subject: International Workshop: The Social Life of Names and Naming Practices in Migration Contexts


International Workshop: The Social Life of Names and Naming Practices
in Migration Contexts

Date: 20-Nov-2025 - 21-Nov-2025
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Maria Coma-Santasusana
Contact Email: maria.coma-santasusana at u-paris.fr
Meeting URL: https://diascotib.hypotheses.org/2382

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics

This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on
names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety
of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present
or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies.
Dates: November 20-21, 2025.
Venue: Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de
Lille, 75007 Paris), and online
No registration required, in-person or online.
The conference programme with abstracts and Zoom link can be found on
: https://diascotib.hypotheses.org/2382
Day 1 – Thursday 20 November 2025
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 10:00 Opening remarks from the DIASCO-TIB team
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1. Social mobility and empowerment
Chair: Xénia de Heering
- Soumya Talbioui | Les pratiques de (re)nomination chez les femmes
migrantes à Casablanca comme moyen de négociation et d’affirmation
identitaire
- Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Machunwangliu Kamei | Becoming through
naming: Applying southern thinking to trouble imaginaries that link
land–peoples–culture–language (online)
- Bhawani Buswala | Migration and onomapolitics of the urban poor in
India
12:00 – 13:00 Panel 2. Claiming places through toponyms
Chair: Sanchuan (Samten) Wang
- Tenzin Saldon | Politics of cultural identity: A comparative study
of the names of Tibetan refugee settlements in India, Nepal, and
Bhutan
- Jean-Cosme Rouzaud, Julien Blanco and Stéphanie Carrière | Naming
the land through migration: Toponymic dynamics and power struggles in
the Central Highlands of Madagascar (online)
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3. Place-making in urban contexts
Chair: Camille Simon
- Qiang Zhang | The flow of names: Naming practices and coexistence in
multiethnic Penang, Malaysia (online)
- Nicola Schneider | From Changistan to Bubble Tea: the Tibetan
quarter of Majnu-ka-Tilla in Delhi
- Françoise Robin | Tibet-on-Seine? Relocating Tibet in Paris through
restaurant names
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 4. Naming systems and identities
Chair: Maria Coma Santasusana
- Miyako Hayakawa | Le (non)emploi du prénom chez les migrants
japonais en France : persistance, acculturation, et transgression des
mœurs langagières
- Sonja Entzenberg, Leila Mattfolk and Lena Wenner | Personal names in
a multicultural context: Names as markers of identity
- Annamária Ulla Szabó T. | Names and heritage identity
Day 2 – Friday 21 November 2025
9:30 – 11:00 Panel 5. Multi-ethnic/cultural encounters in medieval
sources
Chair: Françoise Robin
- Sébastien Gréal | Diversity of names and titles used in the Tarim
Basin: The case of the colophon of the Khotanese
Mañjuśrī-nairātmyāvatārasūtra
- Chang Yui Cheong Richards | Those who serve the Sun lineage: A study
the names of the five clans of Zhang Zhung in the 10th-11th century
(online)
- Pascal Chareille and Pierre Darlu | Migrations et pratiques
anthroponymiques au IXe siècle au sein des familles de dépendants de
l’abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Prés
11:30 – 13:00 Panel 6. Multiple renaming
Chair: Ornella Puschiasis
- Lucile Lebrette | Se nommer soi-même. L’usage des pseudonymes en
migration, entre peur du contrôle et reprise de pouvoir
- Mathilde Weibel | Se nommer en mouvement. Changements et choix de
noms dans la migration des Afghans vers l’Europe
- Ana Fiod | Unfixing the name: Delaying recognition in children’s
naming practices in Haiti
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 7. Naming people and places in colonial and
post-colonial times
Chair: Anne-Sophie Bentz
- Mark Turin | Naming, re-naming, un-naming: Colonial onomastics in
the context of movement and migration
- Ngọc Linh Giang | Les erreurs de traduction des prénoms des Chinois
du Vietnam : trajectoires migratoires et stratégies identitaires
durant la période coloniale française et la République du Vietnam
- Asa Synn | Name and naming in migration contexts: The case of
Macao’s gardens (online)
16:30 – 17:30 Documentary screening & discussion
- Zozan Balci | Say our names (Australia, 17 min., English subtitles):
Naming, Mispronunciation, and the Decolonisation of Linguistic
Practice in Anglophone Contexts
17:30 – 18:00 Closing remarks by Mark Turin



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