Conference Announcements

OSSA 2013 -- Call for Proposals

Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences. See link for details.

First Croatian International Conference on Rhetoric

We are announcing the first Croatian International conference on Rhetoric(Days of Ivo Skaric) which will be held in April 19th TO 22nd 2012 on theisland of Brac (Postira) in Croatia. Further on we are sending you Callfor papers. It would be helpful if you could forward it to people youthink might be interested in participating. If you have any questionsregarding the conference feel free to contact me on gkisicek@ffzg.hr ordis@ffzg.hr Detailed information about the Conference you can see on our official websitehttp://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/dis/

Rhetoric in Society 4: “Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, and Perspectives”

Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication

Section of Rhetoric

University of Copenhagen

January 15-18, 2013

This is the first bulletin of the fourth biennial Rhetoric in Society Conference to be held January 15-18, 2013 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

With this bulletin, we want to invite you to do two things: mark your calendars and start thinking about how you might contribute to the conference with your scholarship.

Below, we introduce the theme of the conference and provide basic information about the various presentation formats.

Within a few weeks, we will contact you again with more information about the conference program, keynote speakers, and how to submit an abstract.

In the planning of the conference we wish to promote discussion among conference attendees. One way is to set time aside for discussion in all meetings, another is to allow for regular breaks, and a third way is to arrange social gatherings suitable to networking and amicable conversation. We hope you will come and be part of the discussion!

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THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD
Fourth International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment

11-13 January 2013, Doha, Qatar
Qatar National Convention Center

Organized by QatarDebate Center

Affiliate organizations:

-World Debate Institute, University of Vermont, USA

-Za in Proti Institute for a Culture of Dialogue, Slovenia

-International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Netherlands

-International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation, USA

WEBSITE
http://www.qatardebate.org/en/Home/fourth-ICARD-PE/fourth-ICARD-PE.aspx

Further information

7-8 June, 2012

Name of Conference: 12th Annual Conference on Rhetoric «Giornate Tridentine di Retorica 12 – GTR 2012»
Where: University of Trento, Faculty of Law, Italy.
Additional information: contact Dr. Federico Puppo (federico.puppo@unitn.it)
Link to website: http://www.cermeg.it/eng/
 

III Chilean Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking Conference

This Conference, organized by the Centre for the Study of Argumentation and Reasoning (CEAR) of the Faculty of Psychology at Diego Portales University, would like to generate tools, approaches and solutions to apply in those fields in which the uses of reason is fundamental: communication, law, education, etc. We do not have an official theoretical position, but rather we value the diversity of angles and proposals. We invite the scientific international community, which works in the topics of the Conference, to participate and share its knowledge, experience and current challenges.

website: http://www.cear.udp.cl/conferencia/2012/papers_en.html

Where & When: Santiago, on 8-11 of January, 2013.

June 1-2, 2012

Name of Conference: GPSSA, 'Between Scientists & Citizens: Assessing Expertise in Policy Controversies'
Where: Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Proposals by: October 31, 2011
Submit to: GPSSARG@gmail.com
Link to website: http://sites.google.com/site/gpssarg/
Conference Organizers: Jean Goodwin, Kevin de Laplante, Jeanie Elise Aune, Michael Dahlstrom, Kevin Blankenship, Robert Craig, Hans Hansen, Beth Innocenti, Assimakis Tseronis.

First Croatian International Conference on Rhetoric

We are announcing the first Croatian International conference on Rhetoric(Days of Ivo Skaric) which will be held in April 19th TO 22nd 2012 on theisland of Brac (Postira) in Croatia. Further on we are sending you Callfor papers. It would be helpful if you could forward it to people youthink might be interested in participating. If you have any questionsregarding the conference feel free to contact me on gkisicek@ffzg.hr ordis@ffzg.hr Detailed information about the Conference you can see on our official websitehttp://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/dis/

Rhetoric in Society 4: “Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, and Perspectives”

Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication

Section of Rhetoric

University of Copenhagen

January 15-18, 2013

This is the first bulletin of the fourth biennial Rhetoric in Society Conference to be held January 15-18, 2013 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

With this bulletin, we want to invite you to do two things: mark your calendars and start thinking about how you might contribute to the conference with your scholarship.

Below, we introduce the theme of the conference and provide basic information about the various presentation formats.

Within a few weeks, we will contact you again with more information about the conference program, keynote speakers, and how to submit an abstract.

In the planning of the conference we wish to promote discussion among conference attendees. One way is to set time aside for discussion in all meetings, another is to allow for regular breaks, and a third way is to arrange social gatherings suitable to networking and amicable conversation. We hope you will come and be part of the discussion!

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Upcoming 4th Tokyo Argumenation Conference

The 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation will be held August 10-12, 2012, in Tokyo, Japan. The conference is sponsored by the Japan Debate Association (JDA). The conference is designed to encourage exchanges of views on the theory, practice and instruction of argumentation across the disciplines. Presentations related to the convention theme "The Role of Argumentation in Society" are encouraged, but proposals are not restricted to it. Potential topics of interest include: argumentation and rhetoric, forensic pedagogy, the philosophy and psychology of reasoning, practical studies, and studies of historical argumentative texts. Qualified papers will appear in our Proceedings to be distributed at the Conference.

On-line submission of abstracts will be accepted starting November 16, 2010. Submit your title, affiliation and abstract (200-300 words) by January 15, 2012, the form below. Acceptance will be notified by February 20, 2012. Accepted authors who wish to have their papers considered for publication in the Proceedings must submit full manuscript by May 20, 2012. 

If you have questions, please contact Planning Committee Chair Takeshi Suzuki, School of Information and Communication, Meiji University, 1-9-1 Eifuku, Suginami, Tokyo 168-8555 JAPAN, or send your question on line,

The conference website URL is:  http://japan-debate-association.org/tokyo_conference/