Canadian Society for the Study of Names
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
35th Annual Meeting
25-26 May 2001
Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec

LE JEUDI 24 MAI / THURSDAY, 24 MAY
Location to be announced / lieu à confirmer
19:00 - Réunion de la direction / Executive Meeting

LE VENDREDI 25 MAI / FRIDAY, 25 MAY
Toutes les séances / All sessions:
Université Laval, pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault 4275

08:30–09:00 Séance d'ouverture / Opening remarks
Présidente / Chair: Helen Kerfoot (Présidente de la SCO / President of CSSN)
Christian Bonnelly (Commission de toponymie du Québec)
Discussion: Excursion toponymique / Field trip, Québec et environs

09:00–09:30 Première séance / Session 1
09:00 Donald J. Orth (Former Exec. Sec. Domestic Names, US Board on Geographic Names)
Toponymy: how far can we go?
09:30 Helen Kerfoot (Emeritus, Natural Resources Canada)
For the birds! "Ornitho-toponymy" across Canada

10:00–10:30 Pause / Break
Bons compliments de / Compliments of : la Commission de toponymie du Québec

10:30–12:00 Deuxième séance / Session 2
10:30 Adrian Pablé (University of Ottawa)
Bellinzona – Bellenz – Blizuna: exonymic evidence from Switzerland
11:00 Zofia Kaleta (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Symbolic sense of stems meaning ‘light, shine' in ancient Indo-European compound first names
11:30 Claude Lucette Evans (University of Toronto at Mississauga)
Noms dans les chartes de l'abbaye de Bégard (1156-1463)

12:00–13:30 Dîner / Lunch

13:30–15:00 Troisième séance / Session 3
13:30 Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb)
Revisiting generics and specifics
14:00 Robert K. Herbert (Binghamton University - SUNY)
Cross-cultural anthroponomy: methods and data
14:30 Varijakshi Prabhakaran (Researcher, Durban, South Africa)
Doc! My dog is not barking: a socio-onomastic study of some South African Zulu codes and registers taken from a doctor-patient interaction

15:00–15:30 Pause / Break

15:30–17:10 Quatrième séance / Session 4
15:30 Edwin D. Lawson (State University of New York at Fredonia)
and Irina Glushkovskaya (Researcher, Toronto)
Russian naming patterns 1874-1990
16:10 Assemblée générale / Business Meeting
Présidente / Chair: Helen Kerfoot (Présidente de SCO / President of CSSN)

17:00–19:00 Réception du président / President's Reception

19:30 Souper amical / Informal Dinner

LE SAMEDI 26 MAI / SATURDAY, 26 MAY
Toutes les séances / All sessions:
Université Laval, pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault 4275

08:30–10:00 Cinquième séance / Session 5
08:30 Michael Falk (National Research Council, Retired)
Why so many matronymic-derived Jewish surnames?
09:00 Ken Tucker (Manotick, Ontario)
By their friends you shall know them
09:30 Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Dew Drop Inn and Lettuce Entertain You: onomastic sobriquets in the food and beverage industry

10:00–10:30 Pause / Break

10:30–12:00 Sixième séance / Session 6
10:30 Alan Rayburn (Writer, Ottawa)
Review of the language treatment of Quebec's place names in English print-media: twelve years later
11:00 Louis-Edmond Hamelin (Professeur émérite, Université Laval, Québec)
Le nord chez Mercator. 8 – peut-on actualiser les choronymes du XVIe siècle?
11:30 Jean Poirier (Retraité de la Commission de toponymie du Québec)
Note sur des odonymes d'usage et de création de la Ville de Québec

12:00–13:00 Dîner / Lunch

13:00–14:00 Septième séance / Session 7
13:00 Natalia Aponiuk (University of Manitoba)
Names as a literary device in Maara Haas' The Street Where I Live>
13:30 Sarat Kumar Phukan (Researcher, Assam, India)
Place names of fauna origin in Assam

14:00 Excursion toponymique / Field trip (Québec et environs)
Christian Bonnelly (Commission de toponymie du Québec)

The CSSN gratefully acknowledges the funds received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under its Program of Aid and Attendance Grants to Scholarly Associations.