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ARGUMENT CULTURES
A conference presented by the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
June 3 - 6, 2009
University of Windsor
Keynote speakers:
Ruth
Amossy
Department
of French
University of Tel-Aviv
Robert C.
Pinto
Department
of Philosophy
University of Windsor
David Zarefsky
School of Communication
Communication, Northwestern University
The Organizing Committee invites proposals for papers in informal logic or rhetorical or argumentation theory on topics related to the above theme, Argument Cultures.
Abstracts prepared for blind refereeing must be submitted
electronically no later than Sept 8, 2008
to H. V. Hansen <hhansen@uwindsor.ca>.
They should be between 200 and 250 words long. Please consult the Conference
website for additional information on how to prepare proposals. Graduate
students working in one of the mentioned areas are encouraged to apply.
It is part of OSSA’s mandate to promote the work of graduate students and young scholars in the field, thus we strongly encourage submissions from this group. Please mention the degree and program at the time of submission. For the purposes of the 2009 conference, ‘graduate students’ are those who have not completed their graduate program by September 8, 2008. If you are a graduate student and wish to have your paper considered for the Blair Prize (awarded to the best student paper presented at the conference – see file entitled “Blair Prize”) you must let us know in the e-mail in which you attach your Abstract.
Organizing Committee:
H. V. Hansen – C. W. Tindale – J. A. Blair – R. H. Johnson
University of Windsor
SUMMER INSTITUTE ON ARGUMENTATION
The Centre for Research on Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR)
at the University of Windsor will be offering a Summer Institute on Argumentation that will include the conference but begin a week earlier. The Institute will offer a course for graduate students as well as serve as an orientation to recent research in argumentation for post-doctoral students and junior faculty at universities and colleges. The course in the Institute will be taught by internationally recognized argumentation scholars.
Further announcements of the Summer Institute and its
programmes
will be made in April and September 2008, and additional information
will be made available on the Centre’s website:
http://www.uwindsor.ca/crrar