Variability of Personal Names and Naming, Uppsala, 9-10 June 2022
Location
Geijersalen, ENG6-1023, Campus English Park, Uppsala University.
Conference program
Thursday, 9 June 2022
09.00–09.15 |
Welcome |
Damaris Nübling, Mirjam Schmuck |
09.15–10.00 |
Anna Balbach (Münster) |
Personal Names and Naming in Europe. Variabilities and similarities of the last 500 years |
10.15–11.00 |
Sonja Entzenberg (Uppsala) |
A Suitable Byname. Bynames of Swedish women born outside marriage between 1860-1920 |
Coffee break |
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11.30–12.15 |
Mirjam Bäßler (Mainz) |
The Naming of Illegitimate Children – A Social Stigmatization? At the limit of the patronymic principle in East Frisia from 1700 to 1900 |
Lunch break |
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13.45–14.30 |
Damaris Nübling (Mainz) |
Self-Naming as a Practice of Social Categorisation |
14.30–15.15 |
Johan Hedberg (Uppsala) |
From Andersson and Hansson to Andgarn and Hanebjär. Surname choices in Sweden between 1925–2015 |
Friday, 10 June 2022
09.15–10.00 |
Katharina Leibring (Uppsala) |
Tim, Maja and Noa – New Names in the Swedish Almanac and the History Behind |
10.00–10.45 |
Birgit Eggert (Copenhagen) |
Different Spellings as Uniqueness in Today’s Naming in Denmark |
Coffee break |
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11.15–12.00 |
Mirjam Schmuck (Copenhagen) |
Olaf Scholz der neue Merkel – Metaphorical Uses of Personal Names and the Impact of Gender |
12.00–12.30 |
Final discussion |
Book of abstracts
Here is a download link for the Book of abstracts.