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Programme - 2002

Canadian Society for the Study of Names
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
36th Annual Meeting

25-26 May 2002
University of Toronto (University College A101)


LE VENDREDI 24 MAI / FRIDAY, 25 MAY
Édifice Cara Benson / Cara Benson Building
18:45 - Réunion de la direction / Executive Meeting


LE SAMEDI 25 MAI / SATURDAY, 25 MAY
Toutes les séances / All Sessions: University College A101

08:30-09:00 Séance d'ouverture / Opening remarks
Présidente / Chair: Helen Kerfoot (Présidente de la SCO / President of CSSN)
Wolf Ahrens (York University)
Discussion: Excursion toponymique / Field trip

09:00-10:30 Première séance / Session 1
Hommage à Frank Hamlin / Frank Hamlin Special Session
Part I
09:00 Joseph Gulsoy (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto)
Notes on Frank Hamlin's scholarship and methods of research
09:30 Tim Nau (NSERC/CRSNG, Ottawa)
The abbreviation of first names in the signatures of Eighteenth- century American men
10:00 Alan Rayburn (Writer, Nepean)
The names and limits of Ontario's primary and secondary regions

10:30-11:00 Pause / Break

11:00-12:30 Deuxième séance / Session 2
Hommage à Frank Hamlin / Frank Hamlin Special Session
Part II
11:00 Jean Poirier (Membre du Comité d'honneur de la Nouvelle Revue d'Onomastique)
Contribution à l'étude du toponyme Sault-au-Matelot à Québec
11:30 André Lapierre (Université d'Ottawa)
Le toponyme Trois-Rivières est-il un anglicisme?
12:00 Edwin Lawson (SUNY College at Fredonia) and Farid Alakbarov (Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences)
Azeri naming patterns, 1900-2001

12:30-13:30 Dîner / Lunch

13:30-14:40 Troisième séance / Session 3
Hommage à Frank Hamlin/Frank Hamlin Special Session
Part III
13:30 Michael Nogrady (Canada Centre for Mapping, Retired)
Buda: its origin and meaning
14:00 Donald J. Orth (Former Exec. Sec. Domestic Names, US Board on Geographic Names)
Open Roundtable Discussion: What is "Meaning" and "Origin" in Toponymy?
(a) The "meaning" of a geographic name
(b) Are there several levels of "meaning" for geographic names? If so, what do we call those levels of meaning?
(c) The meaning of "origin" of a geographic name (Suggested by the Toponymy Interest Group, American Name Society)

14:40-15:10 Pause / Break

15:10-17:00 Quatrième séance / Session 4
15:10 Christian Bonnelly (Commission de toponymie du Québec)
Kanesatake : si la montagne ne vient pas à vous ...
15:40 Assemblée générale / Business Meeting
Présidente / Chair: Helen Kerfoot (Présidente de la SCO / President of CSSN)

17:30-19:00 Réception du président / President's Reception

19:30 Souper amical / Informal Dinner


LE DIMANCHE 26 MAI / SUNDAY, 26 MAY
Toutes les séances / All sessions: University College A101

09:00-10:00 Cinquième séance / Session 5
09:00 Michael Falk (National Research Council, Retired)
The names of the days in Romance and Germanic languages
09:30 Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Try it, You'll Like it! Origins of Ambiguous Recipe Names

10:00-10:30 Pause / Break

10:30-12:00 Sixième séance / Session 6
10:30 Tom Gasque (University of South Dakota, Vermillion)
Lewis and Clark and the naming of the West, 1804-1806
11:00 Edward Callary (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb)
Treatment of French place names in the Midwest
11:30 Louis Duchesne (Institut de la statistique du Québec)
Le mur du son et le sexe : les prénoms homonymes français et anglais au 20e siècle aux États-Unis, au Canada et en France

12:00-13:30 Dîner / Lunch

13:30 Excursion toponymique / Field trip
Wolf Ahrens (York University / Université York)


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.


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