Lecture: Kate Shuster Pedagogy Keynote 2008 International Conference

Kate Shuster with Zoran Jankovic, Mayor of Ljubljana, Slovenia

A speech about what we know and don't know about the links between debate and educational outcomes delivered by Kate Shuster of the Claremont Graduate School in California. For more about Kate see http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/2007/09/kate-shuster-to-keynote-at-2008.html

Click to view or right click to download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/better08shuster.m4v

From the 2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment, April 2008, held at the Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sponsored by Institute of Education Republic of Slovenia, World Debate Institute University of Vermont, and Za in Proti (ZIP) Slovenia. The next conference will be held in 2010.

Website: http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.html
Blogsite: http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/

You will need QuickTime from Apple installed on your computer to watch the video:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/

2nd Conference Held in Ljubljana

Omar Salahuddin (Malaysia), Anna Swersky (Israel) and Sam Nelson (USA)

Hello from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

As I write this the Second International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment, Thinking and Speaking a Better World, has just concluded at the Faculty of Administration at the University of Ljubljana.

With 22 countries represented and a full program of academic papers presented it would be hard not to call it a success. Exchange of ideas, learning and networking all abounded at the event. Including:

• Excellent keynote speeches by Frans van Eemeren of Netherlands, Kate Shuster of the USA and Omar Salahuddin on Malaysia.
• Wonderful reception at City Hall provided by the mayor, Zoran Jankovic, including a private tour of the city castle battlements.
• Sharp and focused interchange between panelists and audience at the many sessions.
• Wonderful breaks where plans were made for future cooperation and refinement of ideas.
• An excellent banquet featuring mountains of delicious Slovenian food.
• Videos, exhibition debates and panel discussions.

Many of these events were videotaped and will be on the web soon as well as announcements about the publication of a proceedings volume. We are proud to announce a new cooperative arrangement with the journal Controversia to seek submission to some of our papers.

Thanks to all hosts and organizers, and especially to all who attended. World Debate Institute University of Vermont and Za in Proti Slovenia were proud to be the organizers.

More to come about the next conference, now planned or 2010.

Program Booklet Available Online

From Alfred Snider:

The program booklet is now available online. Bojana Skrt will check for and change some of the characters that did not come through and add a few other things, but this is it.

You can find it at http://debate.uvm.edu/betterworldbook2008.doc

Thanks to everyone who helped with this project, and especially all of the authors of our many fine papers.

I am very excited about the conference.

See you in Ljubljana!

Final Program Update

Here it is. The booklet has now gone to the printer, but please let us know if there are problems.

2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment
11-12-13 April 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

THE HONORABLE PATRON OF THE CONFERENCE, THE PRESIDENT OF SLOVENIA, DANILO TURK

SCHEDULE (getting close to being final)

FRIDAY, 11th April 2008

12.00 – 14.00 Registration

14.00 – 14. 30 Main Hall: Opening and welcoming remarks

14.30 – 16.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Lillian Bermejo Luque

Bilal Amjarso (Netherlands): What is persuasive about dealing with anticipated counterarguments? A pragma-dialectical study of a form of strategic manoeuvring

C. Andone (Netherlands): Manouevring strategically by retracting a standpoint in what can be reconstructed as the confrontation stage of a critical discussion

Paul van den Hoven (Netherlands): Playing with the Protagonist: Strategic manipulations with discourse voices

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Steve Woods

Anna Mojca England Kerr, Debate club of Faculty of social science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: A comparison between World Schools Debate Format and British Parliamentary Debate Format

Alex Just, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK: William Gladstone: A Model British Parliamentary Debater?

Kyle Rouse, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The international debating workshop as the ideal vehicle for the learning of World's Format Debating: Personal reflections on the 2007 International Debate Academy - Slovenia

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
GLOBAL DEBATE: THE STORY OF A DEBATE BLOG

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Rozalia Bako

Manolis Polychronides, PhD Candidate, University of Athens, Greece: Does debating, as an extracurricular activity, promote democratic values and skills? An empirical study in 14 Greek High schools.

Kate Shuster, Claremont College, USA: Not Making the Case: A Critical Examination of Research Supporting Urban Debate Leagues.

Bojan Marjanovi_, Chairman of the Executive board, Croatian debating society.Final year student of Sociology, department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb Croatia and Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Evaluation of Croatian debating society debate program

Teodora Dubrovi_, Primary school »Milan Brozovi_«Kastav Croatia and Dr Svjetlana Koli_ Vehovec, University of Rijeka, Croatia: Debate as a strategy of teaching and discussion.



Room 4 – Pedagogy

Chair: Chris Langone

Lara Godec Sozak, Slovenia: How to Improve Students' Oral Presentations

Vida Von_ina, Slovenia: Critical literacy and motivation for responsible engagement in a community

Candace Williams, USA: Debate and Plagiarism: Do Current Debate Practices Violate School Honor Codes?

Main Hall
14.30 »Svetovci« showing the TV documentary about Slovenian highschool debate team participating at the Worlds School Debate Championship in Seoul 2007, followed by the discussion with the authors of the film and debaters.

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 18.00 Main Hall
KEYNOTE Frans van Eemeren

18.15 Buses leave for the reception given by mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovi_

19.00 Reception in the Ljubljana city hall

Saturday, 12th of April 2008

9.30 – 11. 30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Satoru Aonuma

Michael Hoppmann (Germany): On Three Kinds of Argumentative Responses

Constanza Ihnen (Netherlands): Exploiting topical potential with practical argumentation: what do arguers choose when they choose between arguments from consequences and arguments from principles or norms?

Lyudmila Kourchak (Belarus): Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation as a Background for Analyzing and Criticizing of a Cross-Cultural Business Communication.

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Manolis Polychronides

Alex Just, Program Director, QatarDebate, Qatar: QatarDebate and the future of debate education in the Arab World

Dr Ann Kirson Swersky, Founder and Chairperson, Sia’h vaSig – The Israel Debating Society, Israel: Establishing Parliamentary Debate in Modern Israel

Teodora Dubrovi_, prof. president of Croatian debate society and
Nada Kegalj, prof., member of the governing board of CDS, Croatia: Debate program in Croatia

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Steve Woods

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University: Teaching debate in non-traditional places to non-traditional audiences.

John Adams, Director of Colgate University Speaking Union, USA: Stasis, Debate, and Accountability

Donald Reape and Sam Nelson Cornell University, USA: The case against American style policy debate: A personal narrative

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Bojan Marjanovi_

Panagiota Kotarinou, Anastasia Chrisanthaki-Apostolopoulou, Despina Koutli, Greece« Using “debate” in the teaching of Science

Ivana Mijatovi_ Serbia: Empowering active participation in teaching quality management courses

George Yeoman, UK: Creating or re-kindling a 'thirst for knowledge’ about global issues in the classroom

Daniela Kozlovi_, Slovenia: Debate and skill development in the philosophy class

Main Hall

9.30 Round table discussion: Is debate the best method for teaching rhetoric in the middle school?
Chair: Bojana Skrt, speakers Kristina Stopar, Irena Lapanje and others

Room 7 Special Event

10.30 Workshop: Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Tabulating a debate tournament using TRPC program of Dr. Rich Edwards

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30 Main Hall
Keynote Kate Shuster

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch in the Faculty of Social Science cafeteria

14.30 – 16.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Henrik Bohlin

Marcin Lewi_ski (Netherlands): The straw man fallacy in the Internet discussion forums

Peter Mesarec (Slovenia): Argumentation and logical fallacies in the Slovenian presidential election debate

Bart Garssen (Netherlands): Ad hominem attacks as derailments of critical testing



Room 2 Debate

Chair: Michael Hoppmann

Conor Tucker, Student, Colgate University, USA: Rhetoric, Debate, and Deliberation: The Colgate Policy Institute

Ameila Kermis, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: Ethos, Pathos, Logos in competitive debate: Can they be balanced?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: NPPF: Combining writing with oral debate

Room 3 Debate

Chair: David Williams

Ivanka Mavrodieva, PhD, Rhetoric Department, Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Debates during the Presidential election campaigns in Bulgaria (from 1991 till 2005)

Boris Vezjak, Faculty of Arts, Maribor, Arguments, fallacies and media

Steven Woods, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Western Washington University: Arguments of Mass Destruction: The Nexus between Intercollegiate Debaters Catastrophic Impact Claims and Bush Administration Invasion Appeals

Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania and Gizela Horváth, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania: The Religious Icons‘ Scandal: Radiography of a Public Debate in Romania

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Maria Wolrath Sodeberg

Andreas Felten, Germany: New Debate Formats and “Pre-Debate-Forms“ for classroom use

Sam Greenland, Australia: Teaching English through debate in Hong Kong

Mateja Glu_i_ Lenar_i_, Slovenia: Together in diversity – promoting intercultural dialogue in language classes through debate

Room 5 Pedagogy

Chair: Alex Just

Nives Videc, Slovenia
Debate with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Maja Bregar, Slovenia: Examples of debates with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Hedvika Dermol Hvala, Slovenia
Development of rhetorical skills in primary school pupils

Veronika Hovnik, Slovenia
Philosophy for children through debate

Main Hall
Live debate on the motion »Media are responsible for anorexia and bulemia among youth.« debaters from Debate club Middle school Rodica Dom_ale, coach Irena Lapanje.

Round table discussion: MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE PROGRAMME, speakers Kate Shuster, USA Teodora Dubrovi_, Croatia, chair: Bojana Skrt, Slovenia

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17:00 – 19.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

CHAIR: Michael Hoppmann

Lillian Bermejo Luque (Spain): Rhetorical argumentation vs. the rhetorical dimension of argumentation

Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez (Chile): Metaphorical design from an argumentative point of view

Roosmaryn Pilgram (Netherlands): Characterising character: Analysing appeals to ethos in a dialectical framework

Satoru Aonuma and Naoto Usui (Japan): In Defense of Argument Culture: A Rhetorical Criticism of Asiacentric Bias in Intercultural Communication

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Miha Gartner, Gimnazija Celje – Center, Celje, Slovenia: Mentorship of debate club.

Helena Felc, Faculty of administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, under – graduate student: Promotion of a debate club - story of success or failure?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Middle Age Debate Transition - How One Coach Changed Horses in Mid Career

Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia: Debate as a subject.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Steve Woods

Javier Rodríguez Alcázar, University of Granada, Spain: Risk Assessment: the Limits of Expertise and the Role of Public Debate

Korry Harvey, Lecturer and Assistant Director of Forensic, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA USA: Beyond Competitive Decision Making: A Primer on Civil Discourse and Deliberative Dialogue Methodology

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University, USA: Debate - What its past and present can tell us about its future

Room 4 – Pedagogy

Chair: Maja Nenadovic

Natasa Makove_ki, Slovenia
Debate (techniques) through the lens of the curriculum reform of upper-secondary vocational and technical education in Slovenia

Nena Mijoc and Du_ana Findeisen, Slovenia
Reciprocal and mutual learning within study circles at the Slovenian Third Age University

Uve Poom, Estonia: Factors influencing student reflection in the experiential education context: case study of debate education

Irena Lapanje, Slovenia
Teaching Young Not to Believe Everything

Main Hall

17.00 Live debate: Worlds School Debate Format on the motion – this House should boycot the openning of the Beijing Olimpic games«

19.15 Buses leave for the banquet

19.45 – 22.00 Banquet in Grad Kodeljevo

Sunday, 13th of April 2008

9.30 – 11.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Bart Garssen

Henrik Bohlin (Sweden): Perspectives in critical thinking

Danilo _uster (Slovenia): Some dilemmas of informal logic

David Cratis Williams (USA): Rhetorical Approach to Problems of Education

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Sam Greenland

Bo_ena Perko, Kri_e Primary School, Slovenia: Solving conflicts in school by means of coeval mediation

Maja Nenadovi_, Fellow of the George Bell Institute, University of Amsterdam, PhD Candidate: Giving Back the Voice

Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Attitude change and need for cognition in debaters and non-debaters

Karlina Ko_elj, Master of Politology American Studies, Professor of English and Slovene at Secondary School for Catering and Tourism Celje, Slovenia: I am proud to say: these are my students.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Jerneja Domajnko. Post – gradute student at ISH, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debating and equal opportunities for everyone.

Christopher Langone, graduate student Department of Communication, Tyler Solloway, student, Cornell University, USA: Debate and the media

Veronika Hovnik, Gimnazija Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia: Tekma

Albert Mrgole, Slovenia: Multi-systemic perspectives of school discourse

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: John Adams

Maria Wolrath Soderberg, Sweden: Pedagogical consequences of viewing topoi as habits

Istvan Pusztai, Sweden
Unwanted heritage: the reminiscences of the authoritarian political system in Hungary built obstacles for practicing democratic teaching methods in schools

Darinka Vrabi_ and Alenka Gortan, Slovenia: Does matura exam restrict critical thinking and how debate can contribute to the quality of lessons

Alfred Snider & Bojana Skrt, USA & Slovenia: Teaching teachers to use debate in the classroom

Main Hall
9.30 Round table discussion: Challenges of running the university debate club,
Chair: Simon Grabrovec, Slovenia
Speakers: Sam Nelson, USA, Alex Just UK/Qatar, Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, Malaysia, Steve Woods, USA

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30
Keynote: Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, Malaysia

13.30 Main Hall
Closing ceremony

14.00 – 15.00 Main Hall
Demonstration debate: Worlds University Debate Format
Debaters: Candace Williams, USA, Sam Greenland, Honk Kong/Australia, Manolis Polychronides, Greece, Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, Malaysia, Alfred C. Snider, USA, Alex Just, UK/Qatar, Anna Mojca England Kerr, Slovenia, Sam Nelson, USA.

Map for Getting Around Ljubljana

Peter Mesarec has prepared some directions for us.

I have prepared a map of Ljubljana with the most important points in the city marked on it. The map is interactive, that means, you can zoom in or zoom out using the "+ or +) button and move around the map with your mouse.

The map can be located at www.ljudmila.org/debata/map.html 

The buses that the participants can use are the buses 6, 8, 20 and 21, and the entry and exit bus stops are marked on the map. The buses 8, 20 and 21 operate from 6 am till 10 pm and the bus 6 operates from 4 am till 12 pm.

Taxis can be reached at +386801190, this is a cheaper METRO TAXI, but they can be busy during nights. If this is the case, call +386801117 Laguna TAXI.

Walking from the city center to the Faculty of administration is not complicated, just follow the big Dunajska street and turn right at Dimičeva ulica and then left onto Gosarjeva ulica (they are all marked on the map).

Updated Schedule

Here are some minor changes to panel and chairs. Thanks to everyone who looked at the previous schedule so closely.

SCHEDULE (tentative)

FRIDAY, 11th April 2008

12.00 – 14.00 Registration

14.00 – 14. 30 Main Hall: Opening and welcome speeches

14.30 – 16.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Lillian Bermejo Luque

Bilal Amjarso (Netherlands): What is persuasive about dealing with anticipated counterarguments? A pragma-dialectical study of a form of strategic manoeuvring

C. Andone (Netherlands): Manouevring strategically by retracting a standpoint in what can be reconstructed as the confrontation stage of a critical discussion

Paul van den Hoven (Netherlands): Playing with the Protagonist: Strategic manipulations with discourse voices

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Maja Nenadovi_

Anna Mojca England Kerr, Debate club of Faculty of social science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: A comparison between World Schools Debate Format and British Parliamentary Debate Format

Alex Just, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK: William Gladstone: A Model British Parliamentary Debater?

Kyle Rouse, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The international debating workshop as the ideal vehicle for the learning of World's Format Debating: Personal reflections on the 2007 International Debate Academy - Slovenia

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
GLOBAL DEBATE: THE STORY OF A DEBATE BLOG

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Rozalia Bako

Manolis Polychronides, PhD Candidate, University of Athens, Greece: Does debating, as an extracurricular activity, promote democratic values and skills? An empirical study in 14 Greek High schools.

Kate Shuster, Claremont College, USA: Not Making the Case: A Critical Examination of Research Supporting Urban Debate Leagues.

Bojan Marjanovi_, Chairman of the Executive board, Croatian debating society.Final year student of Sociology, department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb Croatia and Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Evaluation of Croatian debating society debate program

Room 4 – Pedagogy

Chair: Sam Greenland

Lara Godec Sozak, Slovenia: Analysis of students' oral presentations in the second year of primary education at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana

Vida Von_ina, Slovenia: Critical literacy and motivation for responsible engagement in a community

G. Rhydian Morgan, UK: Critical Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Candace Williams, USA: Debate and Plagiarism: Do Current Debate Practices Violate School Honor Codes?

Main Hall
14.30 »Svetovci« showing the TV documentary about Slovenian highschool debate team participating at the Worlds School Debate Championship in Seoul 2007, followed by the discussion with the authors of the film and debaters.

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 18.00 Main Hall
KEYNOTE Frans van Eemeren

18.15 Buses leave for the reception given by mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovi_

19.00 Reception in the Ljubljana city hall

Saturday, 12th of April 2008

9.30 – 11. 30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Satoru Aonuma

Michael Hoppmann (Germany): On Three Kinds of Argumentative Responses

Ivan Mikirtumov (Russia): The Arguments driving to the Responsible Knowledge: Logical Representation

Lyudmila Kourchak (Belarus): Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation as a Background for Analyzing and Criticizing of a Cross-Cultural Business Communication.

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Manolis Polychronides

Alex Just, Program Director, QatarDebate, Qatar: QatarDebate and the future of debate education in the Arab World

Dr Ann Kirson Swersky, Founder and Chairperson, Sia’h vaSig – The Israel Debating Society, Israel: Establishing Parliamentary Debate in Modern Israel

Teodora Dubrovi_, prof. president of Croatian debate society and
Nada Kegalj, prof., member of the governing board of CDS, Croatia: Debate program in Croatia

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Steve Woods

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University: Teaching debate in non-traditional places to non-traditional audiences.

John Adams, Director of Colgate University Speaking Union, USA: Statis

Rhydian Morgan, UK: Zen & the Art of Debating

Donald Reape, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The case against American style policy debate: A personal narrative

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Bojan Marjanovic

Panagiota Kotarinou, Anastasia Chrisanthaki-Apostolopoulou, Despina Koutli, Greece« Using “debate” in the teaching of Science

Ivana Mijatovi_ Serbia: Empowering active participation in teaching quality management courses

George Yeoman, UK: Creating or re-kindling a 'thirst for knowledge’ about global issues in the classroom

Daniela Kozlovi_, Slovenia: Debate and skill development in the philosophy class

Main Hall

9.30 Round table discussion: Is debate the best method for teaching rhetoric in the middle school?
Chair: Bojana Skrt, speakers Kristina Stopar, Irena Lapanje and others

Room 7 Special Event

10.30 Workshop: Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Tabulating a debate tournament using TRPC

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30 Main Hall
Keynote Kate Shuster

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch in the Faculty of Social Science cafeteria

14.30 – 16.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Henrik Bohlin

Marcin Lewi_ski (Netherlands): The straw man fallacy in the Internet discussion forums

Peter Mesarec (Slovenia): Argumentation and logical fallacies in the Slovenian presidential election debate

Bart Garssen (Netherlands): Ad hominem attacks as derailments of critical testing

Constanza Ihnen (Netherlands): Exploiting topical potential with practical argumentation: what do arguers choose when they choose between arguments from consequences and arguments from principles or norms?

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Michael Hoppmann

Rhydian Morgan, UK: The changing nature of rhetoric - looking at the way rhetorical styles develop and alter over time

Conor Tucker, Student, Colgate University, USA: Rhetoric, Debate, and Deliberation: The Colgate Policy Institute

Ameila Kermis, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: Ethos, Pathos, Logos in competitive debate: Can they be balanced?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: NPPF: Combining writing with oral debate

Room 3 Debate

Chair: David Williams

Ivanka Mavrodieva, PhD, Rhetoric Department, Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Debates during the Presidential election campaigns in Bulgaria (from 1991 till 2005)

Boris Vezjak, Faculty of Arts, Maribor, Arguments, fallacies and media

Steven Woods, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Western Washington University: Arguments of Mass Destruction: The Nexus between Intercollegiate Debaters Catastrophic Impact Claims and Bush Administration Invasion Appeals

Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania and Gizela Horváth, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania: The Religious Icons‘ Scandal: Radiography of a Public Debate in Romania

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Maria Wolrath Sodeberg

Andreas Felten, Germany: New Debate Formats and “Pre-Debate-Forms“ for classroom use

Sam Greenland, Australia: Teaching English through debate in Hong Kong

Albert Mrgole, Slovenia: Multi-systemic perspectives of school discourse

Mateja Glu_i_ Lenar_i_, Slovenia: Together in diversity – promoting intercultural dialogue in language classes through debate

Room 5 Pedagogy

Chair: Alex Just

Maja Bregar, Slovenia: Examples of debates with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Nives Videc, Slovenia
Debate with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Hedvika Dermol Hvala, Slovenia
Development of rhetorical skills in primary school pupils

Veronika Hovnik, Slovenia
Philosophy for children through debate

Main Hall
Live debate on the motion »Media are responsible for anorexia and bulemia among youth.« debaters from Debate club Middle school Rodica Dom_ale, coach Irena Lapanje.

Round table discussion: MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE PROGRAMME, speakers Kate Shuster, USA Teodora Dubrovi_, Croatia, chair: Bojana Skrt, Slovenia

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17:00 – 19.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

CHAIR: Michael Hoppmann

Lillian Bermejo Luque (Spain): Rhetorical argumentation vs. the rhetorical dimension of argumentation

Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez (Chile): Metaphorical design from an argumentative point of view

Roosmaryn Pilgram (Netherlands): Characterising character: Analysing appeals to ethos in a dialectical framework

Satoru Aonuma and Naoto Usui (Japan): In Defense of Argument Culture: A Rhetorical Criticism of Asiacentric Bias in Intercultural Communication

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Miha Gartner, Gimnazija Celje – Center, Celje, Slovenia: Mentorship of debate club.

Helena Felc, Faculty of administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, under – graduate student: Promotion of a debate club - story of success or failure?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Middle Age Debate Transition - How One Coach Changed Horses in Mid Career

Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia: Debate as a subject.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Rhydian Morgan

Javier Rodríguez Alcázar, University of Granada, Spain: Risk Assessment: the Limits of Expertise and the Role of Public Debate

Korry Harvey, Lecturer and Assistant Director of Forensic, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA USA: Beyond Competitive Decision Making: A Primer on Civil Discourse and Deliberative Dialogue Methodology

Donal Carbaugh, professor at Department of communication, University of Massachusetts, USA: Debate, Dialogue and Rhetoric as Cultural Discourse: Di-ciphering Codes for Communication Conduct

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University, USA: Debate - What its past and present can tell us about its future

Room 4 – Pedagogy

Chair: Zora Rutar

Natasa Makovecki, Slovenia
Debate (techniques) through the lens of the curriculum reform of upper-secondary vocational and technical education in Slovenia

Nena Mijoc, Slovenia
Reciprocal and mutual learning within study circles at the Slovenian Third Age University

Uve Poom, Estonia: Factors influencing student reflection in the experiential education context: case study of debate education

Irena Lapanje, Slovenia
Teaching Young Not to Believe Everything

Main Hall

17.00 Live debate: Worlds School Debate Format on the topic: »We should apologise for colonialism.«

19.15 Buses leave for the banquet

19.45 – 22.00 Banquet in Grad Kodeljevo

Sunday, 13th of April 2008

9.30 – 11.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Bart Garssen

Henrik Bohlin (Sweden): Perspectives in critical thinking

Danilo _uster (Slovenia): Some dilemmas of informal logic

David Cratis Williams (USA): Rhetorical Approach to Problems of Education

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Rozalia Bako

Bo_ena Perko, Kri_e Primary School, Slovenia: Solving conflicts in school by means of coeval mediation

Maja Nenadovi_, Fellow of the George Bell Institute, University of Amsterdam, PhD Candidate: Giving Back the Voice

Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Attitude change and need for cognition in debaters and non-debaters

Karlina Ko_elj, Master of Politology American Studies, Professor of English and Slovene at Secondary School for Catering and Tourism Celje, Slovenia: I am proud to say: these are my students.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Jerneja Domajnko. Post – gradute student at ISH, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debating and equal opportunities for everyone.

Christopher Langone, graduate student Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA: Debate and the media

Veronika Hovnik, Gimnazija Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia: Tekma

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Zora Rutar

Maria Wolrath Soderberg, Sweden: Pedagogical consequences of viewing topoi as habits

Istvan Pusztai Hungary
Unwanted heritage: the reminiscences of the authoritarian political system in Hungary built obstacles for practicing democratic teaching methods in schools

Darinka Vrabi_ and Alenka Gortan, Slovenia: Does matura exam restrict critical thinking and how debate can contribute to the quality of lessons

Alfred Snider & Bojana Skrt, USA & Slovenia: Teaching teachers to use debate in the classroom

Main Hall
9.30 Live debate: Worlds University Debate Format, the motion and the speakers TBA

10. 30 Round table discussion: challenges of running the university debate club

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30
Keynote Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, Malaysia

13.30 Main Hall
Closing ceremony

Tentative Schedule Released for Conference

2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment

YOU CAN STILL ATTEND! A FEW SLOTS FOR PRESENTATIONS ARE STILL AVAILABLE. CONTACT BOJANA SKRT AT bojana.skrt@siol.net.

11-12-13 April 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

THE HONORABLE PATRON OF THE CONFERENCE, THE PRESIDENT OF SLOVENIA, DANILO TURK

SCHEDULE (tentative)

(Please excuse the lack of national alphabet translations, we are working on that. It will be correct in the booklet distributed at the conference.)

Chairs are tentative.

FRIDAY, 11th April 2008

12.00 – 14.00 Registration

14.00 – 14. 30 Main Hall: Opening and welcome speeches

14.30 – 16.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Lillian Bermejo Luque

Bilal Amjarso (Netherlands): What is persuasive about dealing with anticipated counterarguments? A pragma-dialectical study of a form of strategic manoeuvring

C. Andone (Netherlands): Manouevring strategically by retracting a standpoint in what can be reconstructed as the confrontation stage of a critical discussion

Paul van den Hoven (Netherlands): Playing with the Protagonist: Strategic manipulations with discourse voices

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Maja Nenadovi_

Anna Mojca England Kerr, Debate club of Faculty of social science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: A comparison between World Schools Debate Format and British Parliamentary Debate Format

Alex Just, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK: William Gladstone: A Model British Parliamentary Debater?

Kyle Rouse, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The international debating workshop as the ideal vehicle for the learning of World's Format Debating: Personal reflections on the 2007 International Debate Academy - Slovenia

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
GLOBAL DEBATE: THE STORY OF A DEBATE BLOG

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Rozalia Bako

Manolis Polychronides, PhD Candidate, University of Athens, Greece: Does debating, as an extracurricular activity, promote democratic values and skills? An empirical study in 14 Greek High schools.

Kate Shuster, Claremont College, USA: Not Making the Case: A Critical Examination of Research Supporting Urban Debate Leagues.

Bojan Marjanovi_, Chairman of the Executive board, Croatian debating society.Final year student of Sociology, department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb Croatia and Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Evaluation of Croatian debating society debate program

Room 4 – Pedagogy

Chair: Sam Greenland

Lara Godec Sozak, Slovenia: Analysis of students' oral presentations in the second year of primary education at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana

Vida Von_ina, Slovenia: Critical literacy and motivation for responsible engagement in a community

G. Rhydian Morgan, UK: Critical Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Candace Williams, USA: Debate and Plagiarism: Do Current Debate Practices Violate School Honor Codes?

Main Hall
14.30 »Svetovci« showing the TV documentary about Slovenian highschool debate team participating at the Worlds School Debate Championship in Seoul 2007, followed by the discussion with the authors of the film and debaters.

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 18.00 Main Hall
KEYNOTE Frans van Eemeren

18.15 Buses leave for the reception given by mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovi_

19.00 Reception in the Ljubljana city hall

Saturday, 12th of April 2008

9.30 – 11. 30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Satoru Aonuma

Michael Hoppmann (Germany): On Three Kinds of Argumentative Responses

Ivan Mikirtumov (Russia): The Arguments driving to the Responsible Knowledge: Logical Representation

Lyudmila Kourchak (Belarus): Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation as a Background for Analyzing and Criticizing of a Cross-Cultural Business Communication.

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Sam Greenland

Alex Just, Program Director, QatarDebate, Qatar: QatarDebate and the future of debate education in the Arab World

Dr Ann Kirson Swersky, Founder and Chairperson, Sia’h vaSig – The Israel Debating Society, Israel: Establishing Parliamentary Debate in Modern Israel

Teodora Dubrovi_, prof. president of Croatian debate society and
Nada Kegalj, prof., member of the governing board of CDS, Croatia: Debate program in Croatia

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Steve Woods

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University: Teaching debate in non-traditional places to non-traditional audiences.

John Adams, Director of Colgate University Speaking Union, USA: Statis

Rhydian Morgan, UK: Zen & the Art of Debating

Donald Reape, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The case against American style policy debate: A personal narrative

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Maja Nenadovi_

Panagiota Kotarinou, Anastasia Chrisanthaki-Apostolopoulou, Despina Koutli, Greece« Using “debate” in the teaching of Science

Ivana Mijatovi_ Serbia: Empowering active participation in teaching quality management courses

George Yeoman, UK: Creating or re-kindling a 'thirst for knowledge’ about global issues in the classroom

Daniela Kozlovi_, Slovenia: Debate and skill development in the philosophy class

Main Hall

9.30 Round table discussion: Is debate the best method for teaching rhetoric in the middle school?
Chair: Bojana Skrt, speakers Kristina Stopar, Irena Lapanje and others

Room 7 Special Event

10.30 Workshop: Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Tabulating a debate tournament using TRPC

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30 Main Hall
Keynote Kate Shuster

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch in the Faculty of Social Science cafeteria

14.30 – 16.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Henrik Bohlin

Marcin Lewi_ski (Netherlands): The straw man fallacy in the Internet discussion forums

Peter Mesarec (Slovenia): Argumentation and logical fallacies in the Slovenian presidential election debate

Bart Garssen (Netherlands): Ad hominem attacks as derailments of critical testing

Constanza Ihnen (Netherlands): Exploiting topical potential with practical argumentation: what do arguers choose when they choose between arguments from consequences and arguments from principles or norms?

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Michael Hoppmann

Rhydian Morgan, UK: The changing nature of rhetoric - looking at the way rhetorical styles develop and alter over time

Conor Tucker, Student, Colgate University, USA: Rhetoric, Debate, and Deliberation: The Colgate Policy Institute

Ameila Kermis, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: Ethos, Pathos, Logos in competitive debate: Can they be balanced?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: NPPF: Combining writing with oral debate

Room 3 Debate

Chair: David Williams

Ivanka Mavrodieva, PhD, Rhetoric Department, Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Debates during the Presidential election campaigns in Bulgaria (from 1991 till 2005)

Boris Vezjak, Faculty of Arts, Maribor, Arguments, fallacies and media

Steven Woods, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Western Washington University: Arguments of Mass Destruction: The Nexus between Intercollegiate Debaters Catastrophic Impact Claims and Bush Administration Invasion Appeals

Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania and Gizela Horváth, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania: The Religious Icons‘ Scandal: Radiography of a Public Debate in Romania

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Maria Wolrath Sodeberg

Andreas Felten, Germany: New Debate Formats and “Pre-Debate-Forms“ for classroom use

Sam Greenland, Australia: Teaching English through debate in Hong Kong

Albert Mrgole, Slovenia: Multi-systemic perspectives of school discourse

Mateja Glu_i_ Lenar_i_, Slovenia: Together in diversity – promoting intercultural dialogue in language classes through debate

Room 5 Pedagogy

Chair: Alex Just

Maja Bregar, Slovenia: Examples of debates with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Nives Videc, Slovenia
Debate with six and seven year-olds in the first grade of nine years' primary school in Slovenia

Hedvika Dermol Hvala, Slovenia
Development of rhetorical skills in primary school pupils

Veronika Hovnik, Slovenia
Philosophy for children through debate

Main Hall
Live debate on the motion »Media are responsible for anorexia and bulemia among youth.« debaters from Debate club Middle school Rodica Dom_ale, coach Irena Lapanje.

Round table discussion: MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATE PROGRAMME, speakers Kate Shuster, USA Teodora Dubrovi_, Croatia, chair: Bojana Skrt, Slovenia

16.30 – 17.00 Break

17:00 – 19.00 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

CHAIR: Michael Hoppmann

Lillian Bermejo Luque (Spain): Rhetorical argumentation vs. the rhetorical dimension of argumentation

Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez (Chile): Metaphorical design from an argumentative point of view

Roosmaryn Pilgram (Netherlands): Characterising character: Analysing appeals to ethos in a dialectical framework

Satoru Aonuma and Naoto Usui (Japan): In Defense of Argument Culture: A Rhetorical Criticism of Asiacentric Bias in Intercultural Communication

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Miha Gartner, Gimnazija Celje – Center, Celje, Slovenia: Mentorship of debate club.

Helena Felc, Faculty of administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, under – graduate student: Promotion of a debate club - story of success or failure?

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA: Middle Age Debate Transition - How One Coach Changed Horses in Mid Career

Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia: Debate as a subject.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Rhydian Morgan

Javier Rodríguez Alcázar, University of Granada, Spain: Risk Assessment: the Limits of Expertise and the Role of Public Debate

Korry Harvey, Lecturer and Assistant Director of Forensic, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA USA: Beyond Competitive Decision Making: A Primer on Civil Discourse and Deliberative Dialogue Methodology

Donal Carbaugh, professor at Department of communication, University of Massachusetts, USA: Debate, Dialogue and Rhetoric as Cultural Discourse: Di-ciphering Codes for Communication Conduct

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University, USA: Debate - What its past and present can tell us about its future

Main Hall

17.00 Live debate: Worlds School Debate Format on the topic: »We should apologise for colonialism.«

19.15 Buses leave for the banquet

19.45 – 22.00 Banquet in Grad Kodeljevo

Sunday, 13th of April 2008

9.30 – 11.30 Presentations

Room 1 Argumentation

Chair: Bart Garssen

Henrik Bohlin (Sweden): Perspectives in critical thinking

Danilo _uster (Slovenia): Some dilemmas of informal logic

David Cratis Williams (USA): Rhetorical Approach to Problems of Education

Room 2 Debate

Chair: Rozalia Bako

Bo_ena Perko, Kri_e Primary School, Slovenia: Solving conflicts in school by means of coeval mediation

Maja Nenadovi_, Fellow of the George Bell Institute, University of Amsterdam, PhD Candidate: Giving Back the Voice

Dea Ajdukovi_, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno dru_tvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Attitude change and need for cognition in debaters and non-debaters

Karlina Ko_elj, Master of Politology American Studies, Professor of English and Slovene at Secondary School for Catering and Tourism Celje, Slovenia: I am proud to say: these are my students.

Room 3 Debate

Chair: Anja _erc

Jerneja Domajnko. Post – gradute student at ISH, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debating and equal opportunities for everyone.

Christopher Langone, graduate student Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA: Debate and the media

Veronika Hovnik, Gimnazija Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia: Tekma

Room 4 Pedagogy

Chair: Zora Rutar

Maria Wolrath Soderberg, Sweden: Pedagogical consequences of viewing topoi as habits

Uve Poom, Estonia: Factors influencing student reflection in the experiential education context: case study of debate education

Darinka Vrabi_ and Alenka Gortan, Slovenia: Does matura exam restrict critical thinking and how debate can contribute to the quality of lessons

Alfred Snider & Bojana Skrt, USA & Slovenia: Teaching teachers to use debate in the classroom

Main Hall
9.30 Live debate: Worlds University Debate Format, the motion and the speakers TBA

10. 30 Round table discussion: challenges of running the university debate club

11.30 – 12.00 Break

12.00 – 13.30
Keynote Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, Malaysia

13.30 Main Hall
Closing ceremony

Slovenia President, Ljubljana Mayor Support Conference

Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia

We are pleased to announce that the President of Slovenia, Dr. Danilo Turk, has agreed to be the patron of the conference. This is another indication of his support for open discussion and debate and especially his support for debating activities in Slovenia. To see a report about his recent meeting with the Slovenian World Schools debaters, see http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/slovenian-worlds-debaters-meet-their.html

<== Zoran Jankovic

We are also pleased to announce that Zoran Jankovic, the mayor of Ljubljana, has also agreed to support the conference. He will host a reception on Friday evening in the historic City Hall for all conference attendees. Mr. Jankovic has previously supported debate events, such as the International Debate Academy held in Slovenia.

Congratulations to conference organizer Bojana Skrt for gaining this amazing support from important officials in Slovenia. Argumentation and debate are surely becoming part of the public scene in Slovenia.

News About Conference Facilities

Our venue at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Administration is looking better and better. Here are some details we now have:

• Lunch will be served free at a cafe within a few metres of the session venues.
• Coffee will be available at some coffee bars also right adjacent to the venues.
• We have six main session rooms, each holding 60 people.
• We will have a large media room especially designed for movies and videos.
• We have a main session room that will seat 240 people.
• There is a beautiful foyer we will use for registration and it is a great mingling space.
• All rooms have the latest technology, with computer, projector and the capability of meeting your power point presentation needs.
• We will have a separate room with 25 computer terminals so attendees can have easy access to email and the web.
• There is a music system in the hallways we can use between sessions.
• There will be comfortable chairs inside and outside (hopefully, the April weather will be nice) for people to relax in and chat.

We want to thank the Faculty of Administration for being such a generous host!

Preliminaries for April Conference

From Bojana Skrt:

Please, feel free to send the information about the conference to everybody whom you think might be interested.

We kindly  invite  all of you who are interested in debate, argumentation and debate as an active method in the classroom to come and join us at  the 2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment -- THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD, 11-13 April 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia.  The conference, organized by World Debate Institute at University of Vermont, USA, Zavod za šolstvo/Institute for education  Slovenia and Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga/Pro et contra, Institute for culture of dialogue, Slovenia will happen at Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za upravo (Ljubljana University, Faculty for administration), adress: Gosarjeva ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, http://www.fu.uni-lj.si/en/

The conference welcomes scholars and educators from diverse fields for vigorous dialogue and exchange.  This conference will unite scholars of argumentation and rhetoric, teachers, and organizers of local, national and international debating networks to discuss critical thinking and advocacy discourse through pedagogy.  Please, find the list of almost 80 abstracts the conference organizers received till February 15th deadline and the draft schedule at the end of this message.  The final programme will be available on March 15th at the Conference websites: http://debate.uvm.edu/betterworld.htm and http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/

Those wishing to attend the conference without submitting a paper  and participate in the discussions are very welcome but must register as well.  The participation fee is 65 Euros and covers the conference sessions and materials,  Friday evening reception, Saturday lunch  as well as a Saturday banquet. Low cost accommodations must register through Bojana Skrt, while all others must be booked by the attendees. You can check the list of suggested hotels at the Conference web page. I also need to remind you that Slovenia presidency of EU made the Ljubljana hotels quite full, so do not wait too long before making a booking.

Please note that registration for admission to the conference and low cost housing must be coordinated through Bojana Skrt bojana.skrt@siol.net. Registration deadline is 15 March 2008. You can find the application form at  http://debate.uvm.edu/conf08appform.doc

All inquires about application, payment and other information should be sent to Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net.

Looking forward seeing you in Slovenia,

Bojana Skrt
Za  in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga/Pro et contra, Institute for culture of dialogue, Slovenia

Alfred C. Snider
World Debate Institute at University of Vermont, USA


CONFERENCE DRAFT SCHEDULE
Friday, 11th of April 2008
12.00 – 14.00 Registration and payment

14.00 Opening
14.30 – 16.30 Presentations
16.30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18.30. Keynote speech 1 and discussion  Franz van Eemeren
18:30 – 19:30 Reception

Saturday, 12th of April 2008

9.30 – 11. 30 Presentations
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Keynote speech 2 Kate Shuster
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch  (at the Faculty of social science cafeteria)
14.30 – 16.30 Presentations
16.30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 19.00 Presentations
19.30 Banquet

Sunday, 13th of April 2008
9.30 – 11.30 Presentations
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Keynote speech 3 Omar Salahuddin
13.30 Closing ceremony

ROOM 1 – Argumentation panels
ROOM 2 – Debate panels
ROOM 3 – Pedagogy panels
ROOM 4 – Video room
ROOM 5 – Live events (debates, round table discussions, etc.
ROOM 6 – Overflow of panels from three areas

VIDEO ROOM
We will be showing the following videos on a scheduled basis. A number of them will be shown twice.

Resolved – USA documentary about high school debate
Sixty Minutes – USA report on urban debate leagues
Svetovci – Slovenia documentary about World Schools
The Journey – John Maynard’s piece about youth activism and Eastern Europe
Sample Middle School Debate – USA seeking permission to show it
Discussion by Middle School teachers – USA seeking permission to show it
Sample Debate by Teachers – in nutrition classroom
Others – let us know if you have ideas

LIVE EVENTS ROOM
We will be staging sample debates in a number of different formats in this room. We will also use this room for round table discussions by registered attendees who are now organizing some topics and participants. Let us know if you are interested. Already agreed »Is debate an answer for rhetoric classes?«  and »Challenges of running a debate club.«



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Argumentation - Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam,  perhaps the most noted argumentation scholar in the world.
Be Critical!The Need for a Well-Considered Normative Dimension in the Study of Argumentation
Some scholars have the mistaken idea that the study of argumentation, in order to be a scientific enterprise, should be purely descriptive. They shun away from any normative concerns. Although descriptive studies, provided that they have a sound theoretical basis, are indispensable, it is Frans van Eemeren’s view that the study of argumentation cannot do without a normative dimension. He explains why he thinks that this is the case and argues that the normative dimension and the descriptive dimension of the study of argumentation should in fact be integrated, so that in the analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse insights from both perspectives can be systematically combined.


Debate - Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, MultiMedia University,Malaysia. Recognized* as the "father of Asian debating" and recent winner of the first distinguished service award by the World Universities Debating Championship.
Debating in South-East Asia: A road less traveled.
One of the less visible legacies of colonialism, in Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong, is an educational system that, in tandem with traditional classroom practices, spawned what might be best termed, “Classical Debating.” This highly stylised precursor for the art and craft of debating that we recognise now trained generations of high school students to deliver speeches on bland topics, often determined months in advance, in competitive matches against other schools with a ‘tradition and history of debating’. Speeches were usually written by teachers, researched by teams of less debate-able students and rehearsed until every gesture and pattern of emphasis was perfect. Not unsurprisingly, prior to the 1990s, debating was rarely a feature of mainstream coursework or co-curricular activity at tertiary levels in any of these countries.
Small groups of students in institutions such as Ateneo D’Manila University in the Philippines and the Singaporean universities occasionally tried to rally colleagues to attend one of the major international competitions and represent their universities and their countries, but these efforts went almost entirely unrewarded, and motivation was easily lost amongst the pressures of the Asian academe.
In 1994, a number of things began to materialize, almost out of thin Asian air. The first was an effort by student leaders in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, to generate a debating competition that would offer Asian university debaters an alternative to the intimidating environments of Worlds (WUDC) and Australasians. This small beginning would burgeon into the competition and format now recognised as All-Asians.
The second unlikely happenstance was a meeting that took place on the steps of the old parliament building in Melbourne, Australia, immediately prior to the Grand Finals of the World Universities Debating Championships in January, 1994. This meeting brought together a number of committed educators and a much larger number of somewhat disgruntled students – the latter, for the most part, upset by what seemed to them to have been an embarrassing loss of face and esteem in failing to present any real opposition for their European and American peers. Beneath the portals of a bygone legislative, a pact was made that day that Asians would never be so humbled again.
This presentation will chart the course of Competitive Debate development in South East Asia from that meeting until the present day. On this short journey together, we will consider the key elements that have raised the profile of debating in the region, established debating as a recognised part of the academic curriculum and propelled universities in the region into the forefront of international competitive debating.


Pedagogy - Kate Shuster, Claremont Graduate School, USA the  worldwide leader in understanding and applyingactive methods in the classroom at various levels. One of her areas of emphasis has been oral literacy and how it can be successfully taught. Kate has eight recent books to her credit and a number of important works in submission. She is perhaps best known for her efforts to promote debating and critical thinking in middle schools.
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns: Pedagogy and the
Importance of Evaluation
There are things we know about teaching and learning. There are things we know we don¹t know. And there are things we don¹t know we don¹t know. Without a serious commitment to evaluation and assessment, pedagogy and school improvement initiatives are unlikely to make any progress on the things we don¹t know. Drawing from new and emerging research in evaluation and accountability, this keynote suggests that teachers and researchers must engage in active collaboration to identify and replicate successful practices in education.


PRELIMINARY PAPERS:

This is a list of submissions. The committees may decide to refuse some of them or request rewrites.

ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED FOR PEDAGOGY SECTION

Panagiota Kotarinou, Anastasia Chrisanthaki-Apostolopoulou, Despina Koutli, Greece: Using “debate” in the teaching of Science

Alfred Snider & Bojana Skrt, USA & Slovenia
TEACHING TEACHERS TO USE DEBATE IN THE CLASSROOM

Bojana Skrt, Slovenia
Debate as a subject in school

Yeoman, George, UK
CREATING OR RE-KINDLING A 'THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE’ ABOUT GLOBAL ISSUES, IN THE CLASSROOM

DANIELA KOZLOVIČ, Slovenia
Debate and skills developing in the philosophy class

Veronika, Hovnik, Slovenia
Philosophy for children through the debate

Ryhdian Morgan, UK
Critical Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Maria Wilrath Soderberg, Sweden
Pedagogical consequences of viewing topoi as habits

Hedvika Dermol Hvala, Slovenia
DEVELOPMENT OF RETHORICAL SKILLS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS

Istvan Pusztai Hungary
Unwanted heritage
The reminiscences of the authoritarian political system in Hungary built obstacles for practising democratic teaching methods in schools.

Dr. Nena Mijoc, Slovenia
Reciprocal and mutual learning within study circles at the Slovenian Third Age University

Ivana Mijatovič, Serbia
THE IMPOWERING ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN TECHING QUALITY MANAGEMENT COURSES

Maja Bregar, Slovenia
EXAMPLES OF DEBATES WITH SIX AND SEVEN YEAR-OLDS IN THE FIRST GRADE OF NINE YEARS' PRIMARY SCHOOL IN SLOVENIA

Nives Videc, Slovenia
DEBATE WITH SIX AND SEVEN YEAR-OLDS IN THE FIRST GRADE OF NINE YEARS' PRIMARY SCHOOL IN SLOVENIA

Darinka VrabiČ and Alenka Gortan, Slovenia
Does matura exam restrict critical thinking and how a debate can contribute to quality of lessons

Andreas Felten, Germany
New Debate-Formats and „Pre-Debate-Forms“ for classroom use

Uve Poom, Tallinn University, Estonia
Factors influencing student reflection in the experiential education context: case study of debate education [summary of BA thesis]

Candace Williams, USA
Debate and Plagiarism: Do Current Debate Practices Violate School Honor Codes?

Mateja Glušič Lenarčič, Slovenia
TOGETHER IN DIVERSITY – PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE IN LANGUAGE CLASSES THROUGH DEBATE

Irena Lapanje, Slovenia
Teaching Young Not to Believe Everything

Mirella Ceglar Jurinčič, University of Koper: , Slovenia
DEBATE AND LANGUAGE, Debate Training as a teaching method

Lara Godec Sozak, Slovenia
Analysis of students' oral presentations in the second year of primary education at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana

Natasa Makovecki, Slovenia
DEBATE (TECHNIQUES) THROUGH THE LENSE OF THE CURRICULUM REFORM OF THE UPPER-SECONDARY VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN SLOVENIA

Vida Vončina, Slovenia
Critical literacy and motivation for responsible engagement in a community



ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEBATE SECTION

Ivanka Mavrodieva, PhD, Rhetoric Department, Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bolgaria:  Debates during the Presidential election campaigns in Bulgaria (from 1991 till 2005)

Boris Vezjak, Faculty od Arts, Maribor, Slovenia:  Arguments, fallacies and media

Steven Woods, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Western Washington University: Arguments of Mass Destruction: The Nexus between Intercollegiate Debaters Catastrophic Impact Claims and Bush Administration Invasion Appeals

Javier Rodríguez Alcázar, University of Granada, Spain:
Risk Assessment: the Limits of Expertise and the Role of Public Debate


Kate Shuster , Claremont College, USA: Not Making the Case: A Critical Examination of Research Supporting Urban Debate Leagues.

Dea Ajduković, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno društvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia: Attitude change and need for cognition in debaters and non-debaters

Božena Perko, Križe Primary School, Slovenia: Solving conflicts in school by means of coeval mediation

Dr Ann Kirson Swersky, Founder and Chairperson, Sia’h vaSig – The Israel Debating Society, Israel: Establishing Parliamentary Debate in Modern Israel

Anna Mojca England Kerr, Debate club of Faculty of social science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: A comparison between World Schools Debate Format and British Parliamentary Debate Format

Karlina Koželj, Master of Politology American Studies, Professor of English and Slovene at Secondary School for Catering and Tourism Celje, Slovenia: I am proud to say: these are my students.

Korry Harvey, Lecturer and Assistant Director of Forensic, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA USA: Beyond Competitive Decision Making: A Primer on Civil Discourse and Deliberative Dialogue Methodology

Manolis Polychronides, PhD Candidate, University of Athens, Greece: Does debating, as an extracurricular activity, promote democratic values and skills? An empirical study in 14 Greek High schools.

Rozália Klára Bakó, Sapientia University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania and Gizela Horváth, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania: The Religious Icons‘ Scandal: Radiography of a Public Debate in Romania

Rhydian Morgan, UK: The changing nature of rhetoric - looking at the way rhetorical styles develop and alter over time

Rhydian Morgan, UK: Zen & the Art of Debating

Miha Gartner, Gimnazija Celje – Center, Celje, Slovenia: Mentorship of debate club.

Veronika Hovnik, Gimnazija Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia: Tekma

Maja Nenadović, Fellow of the George Bell Institute,  University of Amsterdam, PhD Candidate:  Giving Back the Voice

Helena Felc, Faculty of administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, under – graduate student: Promotion of a debate club - story of success or failure?

Alex Just, Program Director, QatarDebate, Qatar:  QatarDebate and the future of debate education in the Arab World

Alex Just, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK: William Gladstone: A Model British Parliamentary Debater?

Bojan Marjanović, Chairman of the Executive board, Croatian debating society.Final year student of Sociology, department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb  Croatia and Dea Ajduković, HDD – Hrvatsko debatno društvo (Croatian Debate Association), Croatia
Evaluation of Croatian debating society debate program.

Conor Tucker, Student, Colgate University, USA: Rhetoric, Debate, and Deliberation: The Colgate Policy Institute

Jerneja Domajnko. Post – gradute student at ISH, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Debating and equal opportunities for everyone.

Christopher Langone, graduate student Department of Communication, Cornell University, USA: Debate and the media

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University: Teaching debate in non-traditional places to non-traditional audiences.

Sam Nelson, Director of Debate, Cornell University, USA: What its past and present can tell us about its future.

Donald Reape, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The case against American style policy debate: A personal narrative

Ameila Kermis, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: Ethos, Pathos, Logos in competitive debate: Can they be balanced?

Kyle Rouse, undergraduate, Cornell University, USA: The international debating workshop as the ideal vehicle for the learning of World's Format Debating: Personal reflections on the 2007 International Debate Academy - Slovenia

Kate Shuster, Claremont Mckenna College, California, USA: Middle school debate programe.

Donal Carbaugh, professor at Department of communication, University of Massachusetts, USA: Debate, Dialogue and Rhetoric as Cultural Discourse: Di-ciphering Codes for Communication Conduct

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
NPPF: COMBINING WRITING WITH ORAL DEBATE

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
GLOBAL DEBATE: THE STORY OF A DEBATE BLOG

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
Middle Age Debate Transition: How One Coach Changed Horses in Mid Career

Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
TABULATING A DEBATE TOURNAMENT USING TRPC

John Adams, Director of Colgate University Speaking Union, USA: Statis


ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED FOR ARGUMENTATION SECTION

Lillian Bermejo Luque (Spain) Rhetorical argumentation vs. the rhetorical
dimension of argumentation

Henrik Bohlin  (Sweden)  Perspectives in critical thinking

Bart Garssen (Netherlands) Ad hominem attacks as derailments of critical
testing


Michael Hoppmann (Germany) On Three Kinds of Argumentative Responses

Lyudmila Kourchak (Belarus) Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Argumentation as a
Background for Analyzing and Criticizing of a Cross-Cultural Business Communication.

Irina Oukhvanova (Belarus)  The Сausal-Genetic Approach as a Background for
Verification Analysis and Criticism of the Content of a Communicative Product (Case Study on Pedagogical Discourse).


Danilo Šuster (Slovenia)  Some dilemmas of informal logic


Paul van den Hoven (Netherlands) Playing with the Protagonist: Strategic
                                                  manipulations with discourse voices


C. Andone (Netherlands)  Manouevring strategically by retracting a standpoint
in what can be reconstructed as the confrontation stage of a critical discussion

Marcin Lewiński (Netherlands) The straw man fallacy in the Internet discussion
                             forums

Constanza Ihnen (Netherlands) Exploiting topical potential with practical
argumentation: what do arguers choose when they choose between arguments from consequences and arguments from principles or norms?


Roosmaryn Pilgram (Netherlands) Characterising character: Analysing appeals to
ethos in a dialectical framework

Satoru Aonuma and Naoto Usui In Defense of Argument Culture:  A Rhetorical
(Japan)     Criticism of Asiacentric Bias in Intercultural
                                 Communication

Ivan Mikirtumov  (Russia)  The Arguments driving to the Responsible
                   Knowledge:  Logical Representation

Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez (Chile) Metaphorical design from an argumentative point
                                     of view

Peter Mesarec (Slovenia) Argumentation and logical fallacies in the
Slovenian presidential election debate

David Cratis Williams (USA)  Rhetorical Approach to Problems of           Education


Bilal Amjarso (Netherlands) What is persuasive about dealing with anticipated counterarguments? A pragma-dialectical study of a form of strategic manoeuvring

Over Eighty Papers Proposed

The emails have been full of paper proposals as February 15th came and went. All three areas (argumentation, debate and pedagogy) are well represented, and it seems like we will meet or top the eighty papers delivered last year.

A preliminary program will be announced soon. There are still a few slots for proposals given our facilities and arrangements, so if you have a great idea for a presentation, now is the time to send it to us.

bojana.skrt@siol.net

Make sure to make hotel arrangements soon as things will be tight in Ljubljana that time of year. The housing at Hostel Bezigrad is inexpensive, convenient and nice.

Housing Update Information

Youth Hostel Bezigrad

From Bojana Skrt:

IMPORTANT: THE RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENTS FOR THE LISTED HOTELS YOU NEED TO MAKE DIRECTLY TO HOTELS BY YOURSELF. I NEED TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT YOU SHOULD BOOK YOUR ACCOMODATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE – IF YOU WAIT IT MIGHT HAPPEN YOU WILL HAVE HARD TIME TO GET A FREE ROOM.

All the hotels recommended are in the center of Ljubljana. The reservations and payments can be made on – line through their web pages. The prices goes from 30 EUR per person in Hotel Tabor to a 150 EUR and more in Grand Hotel Union, breakfast included.

HOTEL TABOR: http://www.hotelpark.si
HOTEL EMONEC: http://www.hotel-emonec.com/
CITY HOTEL LJUBLJANA: http://www.cityhotel.si
HOTEL SLON http://www.hotelslon.com
GRAND HOTEL UNION GARNI http://www.astralhotel.net
GRAND HOTEL UNION http://www.gh-union.si/


For the ones who would like enjoy the »Hippest Hostel in the World« we strongly recommend HOSTEL CELICA: http://www.hostelcelica.com/ , where the room and breakfast can be found for 25 EUR.

Hostel Celica has been artistically transformed from a former prison into an artistically designed youth hostel. Celica (meaning cell in English) offers accommodation in 20 artistically renovated former cells with bars on the door and on the window. Each cell is unique and had been artistically designed by its own author or a group of artists.

You can find more information about accommodation and Ljubljana at the: http://www.ljubljana-tourism.si/

BUDGET OPTION

THE ONES WHO WOULD LIKE TO ENJOY THE BUDGET OPTION IN HOSTEL BEZIGRAD, PLEASE SEND THE RESERVATION TO BOJANA SKRT on bojana.skrt@siol.net The payments should be made directly to the hostel when checking in. This dorm is located 5 minutes from the Faculty of administration where the Conference will be held, the prices vary from 20 to 25 EUR, breakfast included.

Conference Update

Create a global academic footprint for your work and your career.

Great keynote speakers, international draw, quick turnaround on submitted abstracts, invitation letter to show your administration and help gain support. Last year 120+ attendees and 84+ papers. Join us for year two.

2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment
11-12-13 April 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The conference begins with registration at 1200 11 April 2008.
The conference ends with the closing ceremony at 1500 13 April 2008.
The conference sessions will be held on the beautiful campus of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Administration.

The World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont USA, the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and ZIP, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga/ Pro et contra Institute for culture of dialogue Slovenia invite all scholars and practitioners of argumentation, rhetoric, debate, and educators using deliberative education methodologies to the International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment -- THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD, 11-13 April 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Main website: http://debate.uvm.edu/betterworld.htm
Application form: http://debate.uvm.edu/conf08appform.doc
News website: http://betterworldconference.blogspot.com/

The conference will welcome scholars and educators from diverse fields for vigorous dialogue and exchange. This conference will unite scholars of argumentation and rhetoric, teachers, and organizers of local, national and international debating networks to discuss critical thinking and advocacy discourse through pedagogy. We intend for the conference to welcome all who are involved in public discussions and debates about different issues.
This conference is extremely timely. A global information society which seeks reasoned solutions to problems through broad citizen involvement needs to develop and refine techniques for criticizing and validating ideas through discourse and then impart these to new generations of citizens if we are to create a better future and avoid looming crises. This conference represents a unique opportunity to share ideas, network and cross-fertilize with global critical thinkers.

The conference will generate a proceedings volume in the form of a book with completed papers. Submissions will be selected from the papers available at the conference.

The program for the conference will have three themes. Submissions are encouraged to center their work on one of the three themes and to submit proposals to the appropriate conference division. Interdisciplinary work that might fit into more than one category is welcome.

• Argumentation and rhetoric. The study of the use of logic and reason to criticize and analyze ideas through communication is important to our world. Those interested in research on argumentation theory, criticisms of communication acts and scholarship on argumentation practice are encouraged to submit to this division.
• Debate. The use of formal argumentation forums and debating to educate and empower citizens is a growing movement throughout the world. Those interested in work on the practice and theory of debate competition, public debates, research on the impact of debate for participants, and theorizing about debate paradigms are encouraged to submit to this division.
• Critical thinking/pedagogy. Teaching and the methodology of teaching in the active classroom is an extremely important field. Those interested in using debate, discussion and argumentation in classrooms, discussion of experiences and teaching lessons relating to communication and critical thinking are encouraged to submit to this division.

Keynote Speakers:

• Argumentation - Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam. Frans van Eemeren, perhaps the most noted argumentation scholar in the world, has agreed to be the keynote speaker in argumentation at the 2008 conference. Professor van Eemeren will also serve on the argumentation evaluation committee along with David Williams of Florida Atlantic University will also be on that committee.
• Debate - Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah, MultiMedia Univerity, Malaysia. Recognized as the "father of Asian debating" and recent winner of the first distinguished service award by the World Universities Debating Championship, Dr. Salahuddin has agreed to be our keynote speaker.
• Pedagogy - Kate Shuster, Claremont Graduate School, USA. Kate Shuster has been a worldwide leader in understanding and applying active methods in the classroom at various levels. One of her areas of emphasis has been oral literacy and how it can be successfully taught. Kate has eight recent books to her credit and a number of important works in submission. She is perhaps best known for her efforts to promote debating and critical thinking in middle schools.

Paper proposals (a less than one-page abstract) should be submitted as soon as possible but not later than 15 February 2008. The committees will evaluate proposals in hand each month and inform those submitting papers of the committee's decision. Full copies of papers should be provided electronically by the beginning of the conference. ALL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS MUST BE IN ENGLISH.

Format for papers will be that of the Modern Language Association. For information, see http://www.docstyles.com/mlacrib.htm . You can download a copy of the guidelines at http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/mlacrib.pdf .

A committee of conference organizers and scholars will examine submissions to each division.
The members of the argumentation division committee are:

• David Williams, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Frans van Eemeren, Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam

The members of the debate division committee are:

• Bojana Skrt, ZIP Slovenia.
• Sam Nelson, Cornell University, USA
• Loke Wing Fatt, SAID, Singapore

The members of the pedagogy division committee are:

• Alfred Snider, University of Vermont USA
• Zora Rutar, National Education Institute, Slovenia
• Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Department of Rhetoric, Södertörn University College, Sweden

Proposals and full papers for argumentation should be sent to David Williams at davidcratis@hotmail.com
Proposals and full papers for debate should be sent to Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net
Proposals and full papers for pedagogy should be sent to Alfred Snider at alfred.snider@uvm.edu

Those wishing to attend the conference without submitting a paper are very welcome but must register.

The Conference will be held on the beautiful campus of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Administration. The participation fee is 65 Euros and covers the conference sessions, reception, coffee breaks and materials as well as a banquet. The participants will be accommodated in different locations in Ljubljana, depending on the budget option they choose. There are different accommodations possible, from low cost high school dormitory to moderate hotels in Ljubljana to the best hotels in Ljubljana. Low cost accommodations must register through Bojana Skrt, while all others must be booked by the attendees. We will be supplying a list of suggested hotels soon. The conference is a non-profit project and all organizers are unpaid. The participation fee is designed to cover costs only.

Please note that registration for admission to the conference and low cost housing must be coordinated through Bojana Skrt bojana.skrt@siol.net. Registration deadline is 15 March 2008.

The payment for the participation fee should be transferred to ZIP bank account by March 15 2008 or in cash on arrival. All inquires about application, payment and other information should be sent to Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net.

Travel to Ljubljana is possible through many forms. Regular air service from most European cities is available, including on a number of discount airlines such as Easyjet. Train and bus service is convenient with arrivals at the city center. We will not be arranging pick ups from arrival points because it is quite easy. We will be publishing low cost options for airport pick up.
Ljubljana travel guides can be found at: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/slovenia?_http://www.randburg.com/si/ljubljana.html_http://www.ljubljanalife.com/

Organizing committee:
Bojana Skrt, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga, Slovenia
Alfred C. Snider, World Debate Institute, University of Vermont, USA