Dead line has been extended for this panel.
SCMLA New Orleans – American Name Society 10/28/04 to
10/30/04
The American Name Society affiliate of SCMLA seeks
proposals for a multiethnic special session panel to
be part of the annual SCMLA Convention, "Cultural
Confluence" to be held in New Orleans, October 28-30,
2004.
"Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on,
no one has discovered how to take off." Landor
The effect of a name or label has had and continues to
have enduring effects on Americans of different
cultures. Asian Americans are often given American
names to replace their first name, Becky for
Chiu-Hsia. Names are Anglicized, shortened JLo, ARod,
mispronounced, and changed for protection, German
Jewish names, Arab names.
Please consider submitting a proposal detailing a
personal, literary, rhetorical, creative non-fiction
situation that has changed the individual or group
causing a cultural confluence due to names and naming.
Deadline: June 1, 2004
Send a 150 word proposal by email to:
bj.manriquez@ttu.edu.
or hardcopy to:
BJ Manríquez
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Box 43091
Lubbock, Tx 79409-3091
806-742-2500x260
FAX 806-742-0989
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