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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 9th ISSA CONFERENCE ON ARGUMENTATION

From July 3 to July 6, 2018, the 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at the University of Amsterdam. The aim of the conference is to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory.

The keynote speakers are:

 
• Marianne Doury (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
• Dale Hample (University of Maryland)
• David Hitchcock (McMaster University)

 

The planning committee of the 9th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original, non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, AI scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part.

Important dates

• 1 October 2017: Deadline abstract submissions
• 1 April 2018: End of early bird registration
• 3-6 July 2018: 9th ISSA Conference

 

Anyone who wishes to present a paper can submit an abstract in English to the planning committee via the following website: http://www.conftool.pro/issa2018. Abstracts (max. 300 words), prepared for blind refereeing, must be submitted no later than October 1, 2017.

Among the conference themes are:

• Argument schemes
• Argumentation structures
• Argumentative patterns
• Fallacies
• Theoretical issues
• Argumentative strategies
• Argumentation and stylistics
• Argumentation and AI
• Rhetorical issues
• Analysis of controversies
• Argumentation in debate
• Interpersonal argumentation

 

• Visual argumentation
• Religious argumentation
• Argumentation and epistemology
• Argumentation in the media
• Argumentation in a medical context
• Argumentation in a legal context
• Argumentation in a political context
• Multimodal argumentation
• Argumentation in an academic context
• Persuasion research

The planning committee consists of Jean Wagemans, Bart Garssen, Gordon Mitchell and David Godden.

Further information on the 9th ISSA Conference will be available at: http://cf.hum.uva.nl/issa/